Co Down mountaineer Noel Hanna answers 20 questions on health and fitness

I’ll have a strong cup of coffee to start the day and after walking the dog, my wife, Lynne, and I will go for a fast walk of around 8-10km.

Breakfast will be two slices of toast.

A scone with butter, jam and cream, washed down with a large coffee.

My main meal of the day will be a large steak served on rocket leaves with two fried eggs. Throughout the day, I might have a few cups of coffee along with a couple biscuits.

Being a mountaineer, endurance athlete and adventurer, I can’t work from home as my job involves taking people to the hills. When at home, though, I am always trying to plan new adventures and I love looking at all the different possibilities for unusual places to travel to or take people to.

That would be a stir fry with either lots of chicken or beef chopped up through it.

Our weekend treat is a bottle of Champagne and we normally would have a braai with large T-bone steaks.

Long, fast walks in the morning or stepping for an hour has kept me physically fit, while focusing on my next adventures has kept me mentally fit during this time. I think things could be a lot more difficult than they are and I am very grateful for my personal situation. I like having just Lynne and Buddha – my dog – in the house.

I have a small gym in my garage which I use and it is nice to go for a run or a cycle on the stationary bike indoors.

Relaxing, for me, is sitting in the sun with a cold glass of white wine and looking at all the birds that come down into the garden for seeds and water.

A tipple – wine, mojito or Champagne – or a nice glass of Hinch whiskey.

I am currently reading a copy of an autobiography of a good Italian climbing friend before it goes to print. Generally, though, I am not really a book reader – I prefer magazines or newspapers.

I don’t watch Netflix; I really only watch sport or the world news on TV.

How easy it is to relax when you can’t go anywhere and you have good company at home – in my case, Lynne and Buddha.

I was between two and three in relation to cabin fever during the first lockdown and I’m probably the same now. I actually really enjoyed lockdown, as life was just brought down to a slower pace. There was no rushing about to get to the gym as I had to train at home each day.

I missed just going out and having a coffee and reading the papers and I missed international travel and general freedom of movement. At first, on highest level of lockdown, you were not even allowed to [drive somewhere to] take your dog for a walk which I think was really stupid.

That’s easy – I will travel more again and just keep living life to the full. The years definitely do seem to pass by faster as you get older.

Why you can’t pay for a Covid vaccination and just get it. As I travel a lot, I would have liked to have the option of paying and being able to travel safely.

Nothing has really changed for me; you really don’t need a lot of things to be happy if you’re in the right company.

Unfortunately no new skills but I’m taking a lot more long, fast walks. I’ve also been trying to learn a little Spanish and French for travelling.

I would like for people to keep washing their hands and covering their mouths when they sneeze or cough. Also, during lockdown a lot of families started to exercise more which is very good for the body and mind, so everybody should keep on doing that. Walking or running doesn’t cost a lot of money, so there are no excuses. Anyone can afford to walk or run.

My attitude is still the same: I have always believed that when you are born, there is a nick in the calendar and another nick when it’s your time to go. In the time in between, you should just live life to the full because you don’t know where that second nick is and no-one is guaranteed tomorrow.