"It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop." - Confucius

It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop !
Confucius



Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Lockdown and we have a 5km radius now



Today is I believe day 37 or 38 of the official lock down, from this week on wards we are allowed to exercise in a 5km radius which should help with the boredom

I went to the next town yesterday to do a blood donation, I got my SMS which would show Garda that I'm allowed to travel to the next Town, which feels weird.

The trip felt even weirder I haven't left my home area in the last 5-6 weeks, I haven't used any public Transport, it felt like a little adventure going out , there was just one other person in the Train Carriage and I'm glad that it was not more people, even though our infection rate in Ireland has gone down considerably and I assume the risk is quite low but still it feels weird

But back to the 5km radius ,I'm really looking forward to it since I really need to work on my fitness again , I probably have no cycling fitness left .
I'm doing quite a few indoor mat sessions at the moment and they help to break up the day but it doesn't help with the cardio fitness and most importantly with the mental fitness.
I have adjusted to mostly being inside but looking at the Weight scales I know this can't work forever, sadly I like food and I'm one of those persons who just needs to look at food to gain weight
so I have planned two or three routed within that 5km radius and they should be easy but will be challenging enough with my current fitness
I jsut need to wait now until I have figured out what the cause of my backpain is, I reckon its jsut a tight muscle or a small tear, not the first time this did happen but bad timing since currently I can't decide whether its less painful to sit or to stand

Easter weekend is here , we are in lock down and it looks like it might be a stunner


The title pretty much sums it up, Weather looks like it will be amazing but we are in lock down and even if we wouldn't be in lock down I doubt I would venture out very much, there is no question this Virus scares me and I don't want to catch it.
But I don't want to be negative about it, I have enough in home entertainment to keep me going and if I can walk for 30 minutes outside every day than I'm happy for now.

Anyway bigger picture , I wonder if the world will change after this is over, I wonder if we are a bit less selfish and if we appreciate people who are Essential workers a bit more.
I'm not a essential worker, I'm actually in a role where it doesn't make a bit of difference if I work or not, ok maybe a tiny bit over simplified but in the current scheme of things true enough

I guess it all will depend on how fast / slow this will progress

I was out shopping this morning and have to say it felt really uncomfortable, I feel like supermarkets are jsut major sources of germs these days

Friday, April 17, 2020

so how will this pan out


So far I have only concentrated on the now, I was unable to even think beyond a week in advance and I know it will be a problem in the near future.
However I need to get my head sorted , for the first time since this started I have to consider that my job might be at risk, I work for a large IT Company and so far I was quite save and nothing to worry about but the fact is if  the economy doesn't pick up quite fast in the next few month than my Job could be at risk, so I need to get my head around this and make sure that if that happens my CV looks interesting to Companies out there.
I have a pretty good skill set  but I defo need to brush up and do a bit of refreshing and some IT Certs,which means I need to get my Ass into gear, that will be tricky but I guess I have a motivation now

Anyway in global news , it seems that more and more governments try to return to normality, not quite sure how that is supposed to work if we have no fast Test that can tell you in the morning if you did catch this virus or not and as far as I know we don't have anything close to that.

I hope that at least Nature got a breather from us in the last few weeks and with far less pollution we might have helped this poor planet a tiny bit and I kind of hope more people will pick the bicycle to commute