Day 60 of quarantine. Finally got an opportunity to test my new Chromecast Ultra with my FitBit coach in my living room. There was more room here to do the workout versus my bedroom and shed plenty more sweat than I normally do doing the workout in my bedroom.
Weather is still plenty windy and the temperature is much lower than the past couple of days...
Trying to decide whether to do my walk later....
EDIT: I did.
Nearing day 60 in quarantine. Today was a very window, cloudy start to the day. My bedroom door in fact slammed closed at 3am in the morning from the gust of wind that came through the open window.
My final car cheque FINALLY came through. Guess this now means I have to give up the car within 7 days. Which is a bugger because now I'll have to get the bus to the car showroom in June.
Regards to training, I did my walk and am currently contemplating whether to do my FitBit workout today or tomorrow....
Update on my car. They say the final cheque is in the post, and now they will be contacting me to arrange to pick up the car.
But I haven't been able to buy a new car because all the showrooms were locked down. I asked them to reconsider.
Meanwhile, another hot day so I did the walk and not the workout, also probably not a good idea to do a workout so soon after eating lots of pizza ^_^
Did my FitBit workout today. Trying to workout in 25degC heat isn't fun, but I did it with my windows open and a fan blowing in my face.
And, I did my walk to boot. Again the shorter walk due to being on call. My pace was notably slower than usual during the walk due to the heat. But as a result, wasn't sweating as much as I was expecting. Still was, though ^_^
Same as yesterday, a scorcher of a day, so a quick walk in case I got an incident call.
Scorcher of a day today and I start my week of on call :(
Did my short walk and felt like I'd been walking for an hour because of the heat....
Same as yesterday, didn't want to risk being too sweaty without having access to a shower.
We got someone in the check the drains, we even got a rod thingy to help unblock it. Turns out part of the steel pipe in the house was rusted and some of the outbound water was getting blocked by the rust.
Walk but no Fitbit workout -- my shower drains have blocked up so I'm avoiding making myself sweat too much as I'm unable to clean myself properly until I can get that drain unblocked.
No FitBit workout today, but did my long walk. Tomorrow is a non-working day for me, so will use that day to do my FitBit workout, study and do some side projects. Oh, and shopping too....
FitBit workout today -- Legs, Arms Shoulders. Sweaty workout, but not too sweaty.
Went and did my 3k walk afterwards too.
Next workout is "Total Body"
Finally hit day 50 of quarantined exercising. A colder, but less windy day. Big lap today, but decided to try cutting some of the longer corners to see how much of a difference that made.
My hair is really starting to grow out and is beginning to really irritate my ears.
And I found out my second backup domain I play development with no longer had its email forwarders working, and when I logged in, my account seemed to be pretty borked. A back and forth with support emerged that my hosting provider got acquired (again) and looks like my data was not transferred properly, or was empty when it was transferred. More likely someone f**ked up during the migration.
They recreated my account but it's still pretty flaky. I'm asking whether I'll get a credit for the 6 months of failed hosting (the acquisition took place at the end of last year), and I'm seriously considering transferring the domain off this hosting provider and onto Google Domains, but I would lose my email forwarding. I think I'll look at buying another dummy domain on Google Domains and test with that for a bit.
Fitbit workout today wasn't too bad. Not as intense as my last one. Still sweaty, but not "dropping beads of sweat" sweaty. Next workout is Legs, Arms & Shoulders
Also did my 3km walk, but today was super windy during the walk so I won't be surprised if I catch a cold from this.
Short walk today, 3km, no fitbit workout as my arms are still hurting too much from yesterday's workout.
Short 3 km walk and fitbit workout. There was some emphasis on arms today, and my arms are SUPER sore.
Next fitbit workout is back and core
A free Friday because I'm now on 4 day week, and it's VE Day, so my one-hour walk came across several roads with bunting and lots of Union Jacks. It certainly was suitable weather for it...
Lots of people were queuing and saw the longest queue outside Tesco Supermarket (and not Sainsbury's surprisingly)
After the one-hour walk, I then did my Fitbit workout, which was just shy of 35 minutes and I certainly felt it afterwards....
Dropped an email to the insurance brokers to ask when I would expect to see the final cheque for my car and they advised end of this week, early next. And I then asked about the hire car and they advised I am entitled to the car for another 7 days after the receipt of the final cheque.
Problem is, I can't get another car right now due to the lockdown, but I did check on Car Wow and Auto Trader. Car Wow seems much easier to use. And I have already got an offer from a Toyota dealer in Woodford Green, about 1.5 hours bus journey away (three buses) and only about 10 miles.
Doing early shopping tomorrow, so only did my 1hr walk today, and no FitBit workout, but should be able to finish this week's set if I work out Friday/Saturday/Sunday
A nice hot day, no queues except outside Sainsbury's, and a few at Co-op on the way back.
Decided to do my Fitbit workout before my walk today. Meant I was already feeling hot when I started my walk and today was reasonably warm, so by the time I finished, I was sweating again....
Did the long walk again today, only a few queues today, outside Tesco Petrol station, Sainsbury's and Tesco Supermarket.
Forgot to bring my earbuds so it was a silent walk around the 5k lap, but surprisingly relaxing. No music meant I was left to my thoughts. Of course, it did also mean I was bugged by some beggars on my way around -- they always seem to congregate around Sainsbury's for some reason....
Long walk today. Queues were back. Pharmacy, Sainsbury's and Tesco's all had relatively long queues. Sainsbury's being the longest. Guess I spoke too soon when I said the panic buyers had bankrupted themselves....
Grey skies, but no rain, 45 minute walk, 4.76 km, and no queues at most of the shops. A few people waiting outside the butchers and the Co-op, but nowhere else.
Beginning to think most of the panic buyers have bankrupted themselves, or are desperately trying to shift their hoard, like the guy mentioned on Sky News Australia
1 hour walk today, no rain luckily, and very few queues in the shops. Butcher had a queue of 1 and the fruit n veg had no queue when I walked past but had a reasonably sized queue when I came back.
I'm on four-day weeks now, due to Coronavirus, so did the shopping this morning at Tesco. No queues at all, surprisingly, and the in-store baker recognised me, wondering why I'm there on a Friday instead of the Saturday like I normally am ^_^
Did my 1 hour walk, and the last bit was a sprint as it started hailing. Yep, another wet miserable day, and then, just to rub it in, it turned sunny after I got home....
Today was almost totally raining, but stopped just as I finished work, so I got in a 30 minute walk. I was contemplating going around for another 30 minute lap, but the looming black clouds were not promising.
A few minutes after I took shelter in doors, the skies opened up again....
Another pouring rain today, so no walking at the usual time, just my FitBit workout at 26 minutes.
However, soon after I finished my workout, the rain stopped so I went and did my 3km walk.
My car was picked up and the salvage agent drove off into the distance in the pouring rain....
He drove out with fuel leaking from my car as he drove the card hard up against the van's ramp and it made lots of scraping sounds as he was trying to force the broken bits of my car up the ramp too. The ramp was wet, so also lead to my car's wheels spinning.
He tried to avoid signing the V5C, saying the office would sort it but I insisted he sign (I can do the SORN online, but would rather have something in writing in case).
I did the SORN online (https://www.gov.uk/sold-bought-vehicle if you're curious) and got the confirmation from the DVLA that I'm no longer the owner of the vehicle, but will get a letter in the post. I still have the Section 9 from the V5C but will not need to send it apparently.
The pouring rain continued throughout the whole day and after I finished work, so no after-work walk as I normally do and have been doing every day after work.
I did do my FitBit workout though. 29 minutes today.