5 Apr 2020

A stay of execution…

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Like a lot of people, the flights I had booked to get me to the events I signed up to in 2020 have been cancelled, for example:

The Manchester Marathon has been rescheduled to October so that’s something to work with and toward. One small positive is that I should get more time to train…

Ironman Kazakhstan is in late August – could this be OK? Current advice is that it could be postponed…. Will the world be rid of Corona in time for it to go ahead as planned?

I’m assuming a 4-6 month delay to everything, the Government advice to the more mature and vulnerable is to self isolate for 12 weeks so that’s equivalent to 3 months and I suspect this measure is intended to help the health care providers deal with other cases during that time, thereby ‘flattening the curve’.

All hail the NHS!

Hero key workers – thank you!

This is a complex and dynamic situation that requires personal and social discipline that we are not currently accustomed to.

The guidelines changed and as a result, I was allowed out of self-isolation and back to work but now we have a curfew from 15:00 to 06:00 so this has made training outdoors a little more difficult.

The phrase ‘Force Majeure‘ springs to mind so I’m spending time working out alternative solutions and revising the programme schedule to see how much of the 40s 4 40 challenge I can still complete in 2020.

Watch this space…..

14 Mar 2020

God laughs at people who make plans…

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Damn Corona virus… I now find myself in mandatory self-isolation after a flight back from the United Kingdom almost 2 weeks ago.

Clearly I need to adapt my training to suit this unusual and unexpected set of circumstances but with the threat of events being cancelled, it’s casting a blanket of uncertainty over my current schedule.

For example, the Manchester Marathon has just been postponed, most likely to later this year…

Ironman have written to me stating that they expect ‘substantial and widespread event postponements in the coming weeks and months’ so i can only hope that this blows over well before August!

….and the flights I’ve already booked are now at risk, for example:

I remember a motivational quote that said ‘it’s not the strongest that survive, it’s the most adaptable to change’ so this pandemic and our response to it is going to be a good test of that maxim.

Good luck, everyone….