Social distancing

Not even sure if that sentence even existed before the beginning of this year and its about breaking habits, I try to do my best and keep away from people but I see a lot others have real problems breaking habits, example I wanted to get some bread and milk from my local veggie shop, its a very open place so should be save enough but I saw people queuing  at the till and wanted to wait until that Q disappeared and guess what everyone else walked past me into that place and queued up closely as much as I love to support my local shop I just couldn't bring myself walking into that place.

 Im king of glad that I finally managed to go for a long walk yesterday evening, I actually felt how the stress was slowly ebbing away, mind you took well over an hour to get to that stage, will try to keep this up just for sanity sake. Since I can't run with my knee injury this will be my go to exercise since I fully expect that leisure cycling will be forbidden in a not too far distance, the weather looks kind of nice for the weekend and I suspect we will see the hoards out and reckon the Government will need to step in to flatten the curve, another one of the words that was not known before this started, so I plan to get used again to the Turbo, doing Turbo session inside while the sun is shining is torture but still better than catching this Virus , this Virus is no joke and I wish people would finally understand that.

I looked rather longingly at the sea today, I love open water swimming but did not even remotely enough of that last year, mainly because of early arrival of jelly fish, I reckon if it continues like this I will be very early in the Irish sea with a Wet suit, I'm not that brave

Pandemic times

I think the most puzzling thing for me during this Pandemic is the time frame, I knew it was coming , I saw what had happened in China. I saw the slow progression from there and fully expected it to hit here in Ireland but that is as far as my foresight was working, somehow I thought we will bunker down for two weeks and after that all is back to normal, even know knowing better, I can't think beyond the end of the Month.

It is actually impossible for me to think more than 2 weeks ahead and that is very strange for me,I'm someone who plans a year ahead, who considers events to work towards a year ahead and in this one I can't think at the moment beyond two weeks, I need to learn to accept it

I'm a introvert and I utterly assumed that not meeting people not going out will not impact me whatsoever and I know in comparison to others I really don't mind much but again I'm surprised that it affects me, this thing teaches me a lot about me very quickly and I have to adjust to the Way I see myself

So looking back at the last week I realized I need to address some things otherwise this will not go well and writing about it is the first start, I barely have done any sport in the last 10 days and mostly have been sitting on my couch, firstly this is not good for my mental health and not good for my waistline

I have plans in my head and they are simple , walking ( I'm injured and running is out for now ) and cycling and there is the problem, In other countries they have banned leisure cycling and the reason makes sense , the Government is worried that these people crash and add load to the health system, the Irish government has not gone that far, they even encourage exercise  since they realized that sport is important to Mental health.
I can't quite figure out why I find every excuse not to go cycling, it probably is saver at the moment than it has been in years, there are barely any cars out there,main point whatever is stopping me I need to get over it , this is not a 2 week thing and I can go back to normal live and I need to keep reminding me about it

stay save everyone

Keep a Diary they said

Today is the 19th of March 2020 and if you haven't been living in the Big Brother house for the last few weeks than you know what happens on this planet right now, think even the Big Brother guys have been informed by now ( by the way didn't even know that show still ran )

Anyway we have a Pandemic and its nothing like we have been told in the movies , its not a 90 minute action packed show and I think that is in these fast running times the biggest surprise to me

Some smart people said keep a Journal about this hopefully one time event and that's what I'm planning to do, its a Journal just for me, I will post it but more to be able to go back on this , it will be about my thoughts and what I see and experience,so super boring for anyone else but I realized I need a outlet and so I will write this blog again until I 'm bored of it and over the Stress of the current situation

Take care everyone