No time limit on outdoors exercise?

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I thought that it was a limit on being outside for exercise of one hour - but the bbc website is saying no time limit?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-51176409

Did I make up the one hour thing???

Yes you did
I've never seen a time limit

As far as I'm aware, there is no time limit written into the legislation.

Yes, you did. There is no time limit.

Everyone has turned in to a nutter about the exercise thing. Especially on here. It's quite possible that you picked it up somewhere, but when I read the official guidance as it came out, there was no mention of a time limit.

Advice in Ireland is brief, solo exercise. Local to your home.

Well there you go. My first isolation induced hallucination.

Next thing you'll be telling me there weren't elephants in my garden this morning.

We had a turtle

The guidance published on 23rd March is available on the gov. uk website. Definitely no time limit on exercise but it does say that even when going out for one of the permitted limited purposes, you should be limiting the time spent outside.

I though Boris said 1hr in his speech. Isolation induced psychosis is definitely a thing!

I think it’s France that has the hour limit. No actual time limit here.

The advice seems to be don't sit or loiter outside. I would struggle to walk for over an hour with my DC without a pit stop to at least drink. I expect others would be fine for a few hours.

If it makes you feel any better I thought I heard 1 hour too!

I've seen threads on hear mentioning 15 minutes and an hour got exercise - but none elsewhere.
& Gove has stated it's OK to work on your allotment - I have a small raised bed in a locked community garden, so doesn't take long to tend (and a number of people aren't going, so no SD implications) but a regular sized allotment is going to be a lot longer than an hour.

What I'm not clear on, it is the risk being outside, or is it the social distancing implications?

• and if you are social distancing outside, how is that different to being in the garden, if you have one?

I thought Hancock said something about "your usual amount of exercise" which covers almost anything!

Social distancing implications , chance encounters especially with idiots, gates , temptation to ring a friend doorbell or get something unnecessary from a shop

Other countries have needed to introduce stricter limits due to the idiot factor, which may be why there is confusions

Unfortunately, the government seems to want people to use their common sense, and that's something that's in short supply at the moment. The vitriol directed at some posters who are just trying to balance minimising risk with staying somewhat sane is astonishing.
When I was at MILs a couple of weeks ago we would be guaranteed a completely isolated beach trip, where the most we might see is one passing car. And in lockdown that'll be the same.
Others can't look out the window without seeing others out walking for exercise/to work/ to the shops.
For some a walk around the block will suffice as daily exercise; whereas for others a 10k run is a daily thing that they feel they need. That's why there shouldn't be such black and white rules. We live in a diverse country and have diverse needs and so common sense should prevail.
Whether it does or not is a different thread.

"your usual amount of exercise"

as PP states, could mean anything - stuff you recognise as specific exercise, or compensating for the usual moving about that you're now missing as you WFH binge watch iplayer in bed

I’m sure he said one hour in his speech as well.

Mail (sorry I know!) reporting it's going to get more stringent soon. This could mean time limits or even none at all!

The longer everyone is out, the more people are out, so depending on where you are exercising, social distancing may become more difficult to maintain.
The guidelines are there for a reason- they are advice. If you want to give yourself the best chance, follow the advice.
You're not getting one over the rules, or the government by pushing against the regulations/ advice. You are exposing yourself and your household to greater risk of infection.
Stay out all day exercising-- take endless walks with your dog ....if you get some weird anti-authority kick out of it. Just don't complain when you or anyone you love gets ill and the hospital has no bed for them.

Cripes 90% of people think I'm BU to ask if I misunderstood a rule.....People are getting tetchy indeed.

@slipperywhensparticus if the turtles are going to be our overlords then so be it. I can get on board with that.

No time limit. It doesn’t even specify what you can or can’t do, just says “for example”.

Round here people seem to think you have to take a slow walk 15 mins from your house and back again or they look at you like you’re the worst person in the world. It’s all gone a bit ridiculous.

Ah yes its France that is one hour. That must have been where I read it. Oh thank goodness I really thought that I was going mad.

I've been setting a timer on my phone when I've been going out for my walk! (I am a very compliant person)

Another one here thinking it was an hour,too. Mass hallucination?