Sunday mornning - stay alert!

There is already a good deal of comment about the possible changes to lockdown likely to be announced later this evening. The one featuring most heavily is the change of instruction to stay alert rather than stay home and the comments I have read, which are going to be slightly one-sided I accept, based on my Twitter feed, seem to be focused on the lack of clarity within the message. It seems people are concerned there is the opportunity to interpret the slightly relaxation of rules as meaning whatever you like them to mean. This is perceived as making the prospect of a second spike in virus cases far more likely, particularly as we seem to be easing restrictions ahead of where other countries have taken action to open up. They have had far fewer new cases on a daily basis for a sustained period whilst we appear to be risking an earlier easing of the measures.

We will see what comes of it. I imagine for some people they are going to slaughter the message whatever is actually said and others are going to defend the announcement come what may. They may be more interested in the politics of it all rather than the human cost, expressing preference for whatever they already believe to be for the best. It looks like in the middle, more people are becoming critical of the government with a majority feeling the crisis has been handled more badly here than in Spain or Italy.

In the midst of it all, life under lockdown continues and there are plenty of people out for a Sunday stroll. I was running earlier and on the way back had to dodge from one side of the road to the other to avoid getting too close to parents with their children on bikes, horse riders and plenty of cyclists. Good to see so many about so early.

I did high intensity running today sandwiched between a mile warm up and mile warm down. That meant 2.2 miles of alternating between bursts of full pace for a minute followed by a minute and a half of recovery jogging.

I am getting to know the local area very well now and have got the Ordnance Survey map out to give me a guide to other routes I've not yet taken.