Day 72 - Cru Together Apart

This morning was time to do another virtual relay with Crusaders. Today, I was on a team with Fin and Ian. They were each running 3km, and I was running one mile. I jogged a mile along the Lee Road, as a warm up, and this meant that I knew exactly where my run was going to end. It was hard doing it the last time, not knowing where or when I could stop running. I improved my time today by twenty four seconds (since the last mil time trial about a month ago), to get 6:36 for the mile. I’m delighted that all of the training I’ve been doing seems to be paying off!

After my time trial, I headed down to the retail park in Mahon to collect a power washer that I had ordered yesterday. Quite the new vista greeted me as I drove into the retail park. About half the shops were open, and each had their own long queue waiting outside. Thankfully, there were only about ten people ahead of me in the queue for Halfords, but B&Q must have had about fifty people waiting outside! Shops are limiting how many people can enter at any one time, which is causing these queues to build up. Halfords weren’t actually even letting anyone into the shop - they had a desk at the door, and most people were just collecting items that they had ordered online. I must have been waiting about half an hour though!

This evening was meant to be our annual Crusaders club dinner, so I came up with the idea earlier in the week, of making a picture with all of us wearing our club colours during lockdown. A steady stream of photos came in to my phone throughout the morning, then after lunch I compiled the collage. It looks even better than I expected. It’ll be a lovely souvenir for us all to have and everyone seems to have loved it!

I managed to squeeze a little bit of power washing of the patio in this evening, then me and Peter ordered takeaway and watched the film Birdbox, which was very entertaining! Our favourite takeaway, Yama, has reopened this week, so it was nice to be able to order from them again!Read more