Category Archives: Fitness & Health

Training in Quarantine – Day 19

Another gorgeous sunny day, and a 5km walk this time, 51m 34s.

Queues outside fruit n veg store and Co-op (for the first time)

Tesco Express petrol station had no queues, neither did Sainsbury’s, but the Tesco Express supermarket did along with the fruit n veg nearby to that store (although the queue was not that big)

Did some shopping this morning in the early hours, queuing up outside Tesco Perivale, waiting 45 minutes before I could get in. How early? About 5 am early. 15 minutes later, and the queue extended way past the visible corner of the store and I could not see the end of it.

Training in Quarantine – Day 18

Gorgeous Good Friday weather, went for a brisk walk, covering 5.35 km in 50m 28s.

Queues outside my local fruit n veg, the local pharmacy, Tesco Express petrol station, another pharmacy, Sainsbury’s (about 400m queue here), Tesco Express supermarket.

Trying to find some entertainment in games right now. And I’ve started looking at some strategy games. Stellaris was a game I used to play for a while, so redownloaded it. Got a bit bored for a bit.

Tried to play Planet Zoo. Bought the deluxe version, played for a bit. But when I tried to reload it, it wouldn’t display properly for some reason. So asked for a refund from Steam.

Also looking at Magic The Gathering Arena. An interesting game. I’ve been contemplating taking up Magic in physical form, but this might let me at least get some practise in before going down to the my nearest game shop. Which is in Finchley from what I can find.

Also it turns out they do rotation which means some cards become illegal in normal and competitive duels, and means you have to keep buying new cards in order to keep up to date. Magic, it seems is an expensive hobby to maintain….

The upcoming set is Ikoria, which has hints of giant monster, Japanese style B-movies. And yes, Godzilla is in the list

Training in Quarantine – Day 13

Walked a longer lap today, 4.85km. Really nice weather to go out walking too. Went past my local Tesco petrol station — they now have implemented a queue system with one in/one out. My local Sainsbury’s had a queue of about 250m (sometimes it does have a queue sometimes it doesn’t). A Tesco Express near Barnet Everyman Cinema also had a queue, but it was only a couple of people.

When Strava finally synced with my Fitbit and I checked the flybys, holy crap, there were a lot of people out exercising…