BBC Science Focus Magazine

HITTING THE WALL

“Quarantine is maddening because human beings like structure. We develop our lives to follow a certain routine”

Lockdown is more of an endurance sport than a sprint, so unless you trained for it, there was a moment when you hit the wall. I was on Week 2.5 when I started wailing like a little kid in front

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