Joe Wicks is going to stop his daily live stream fitness classes this week. Ro thinks he's going to go behind a paywall, but it looks like he's still going to do live classes for free on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday. I just realised I should be setting my watch to "doing an exercise activity", I could have been getting kudos for all these Joe Wicks lessons I've done for the past three months while in furloughed lockdown. They're showing up now with my run stats as "aerobics" or something.
A high of 20° and a low of 14° today, but very light rain. So after Joe Wicks today I went for a run, and it was good out. I was doing 4'10 for my final kilometre, and without even any wind pushing me along. This is the pace for my record 5k parkrun, though it's a bit different having that as my averge for the final km only, compared to having that as my average across 5k. Actually just checked the stats1 and I was crazy sprinting at the end. I could not maintain that, but it's still progress. Still some work to go.
I'm powering through the Julie Wassmer book, it's gentle and predictable in places but enjoyable.
| Author | Book | Thoughts |
|---|---|---|
| Ian Rankin | Westwind2 | Dated thriller, shame. |
| Ian Rankin | Doors Open2 | Really good crime caper in Edinburgh but with no Rebus. |
| Suzanne Collins | The Hunger Games2 | Borrowed from the children, very good. |
| Suzanne Collins | Catching Fire2 | Hunger Games part 2, read this even quicker, a bit darker. |
| Suzanne Collins | Mockingjay2 | Hunger Games part 3, joyless and grim. Very 2020... |
| Karen McManus | One Of Us Is Lying3 | Another one liberated from the children's bookshelf. A Breakfast Club whodunnit, dying to be a film, not at all suitable for a ten year old... |
| Robin Paige | Death at Glamis Castle4 | Edwardian era mystery written by Americans. I read one of these before. Quite atmospheric, though a little twee. Sort of romance / crime. Written in accents, with plenty of "of the time" attitudes. |
| Jed Rubenfield | The Interpretation of Murder5 | A charity shop find, one you always see, have had it kicking around a long time. Historical crime fiction again set in New York 1909, featuring Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. Great, but complicated and fairly unlikely! |
| Muriel Spark | Loitering With Intent6 | Branching out a little this time, it's not even a crime. |
| Julie Wassmer | Murder on the Pilgrims Way7 | Going back to the familiar now. Fairly gentle and local crime. Forgot I had this one from when we met the author in Waterstones. |
Peru overtakes Italy now for number of coronavirus infections, according to the BBC. My stolen chart below is slightly behind. I'm sure UK is still winning in the disaster stakes per-capita. What happened to that app they were trialling in the Isle Of Wight? Oh no, we won't go with the distributed set up other countries are using, we NHSX government dept know best, we have a great record of big IT systems here in the UK.
| Country | cases | deaths |
|---|---|---|
| USA | 2208400 | 119132 |
| Brazil | 928834 | 45456 |
| Russia | 545458 | 7284 |
| India | 354161 | 11921 |
| UK | 298136 | 41969 |
| Spain | 291408 | 27136 |
| Italy | 237500 | 34405 |
| Peru | 237156 | 7056 |
| Iran | 192439 | 9065 |
| Germany | 188382 | 8910 |
Got a great plan for a socially distanced walk tomorrow, ending up at a friend's garden, where we'll have a beer delivery from The Firkin Alehouse. The Inn Doors is open tomorrow too, so I might call in there after for a couple of pints. Cheers!
Coronavirus weekly death graph for USA + Brazil + UK + Italy + France + Spain
5k: Five km, just over three miles to you.
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