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???

Meant to add, Boris stated "one form of exercise per day - a walk, run or cycle". He didn't say you could only go out for an hour. Once a day could be ten minutes or it could be an eight hour hike across the fells.

We live at the foot of Blackcombe in Cumbria and can walk up it from our doorstep. It would take maybe three hours and we wouldn't encounter a soul. Far safer than walking for 30 minutes though the streets.

I dont recall nicola sturgeon saying 1 hour either. Apparently here in Scotland you can walk your dog more than once too

So today DH is taking the dog out for a long walk, I think he'll be gone for about 3 hours in total. I've done an online workout from my gym - am actually considering if I should keep doing it that way even when life gets back to normal as no time wasted going to gym and I definitely hurt afterwards. I will go for a walk later in the farmland/wood area - will probably be gone about an hour.

We're lucky enough to live in a rural area - rarely meet people when out walking- so it makes little sense not to keep fitness levels up by going on a long walk providing you follow the distancing guidelines and it's a track that you're used to so unlikely to get injured. Unfortunately it would be complicated and divisive to have different restrictions based on your location- I think the government is hoping we use a bit of common sense and stay within the stated guidelines rather than made-up ones.

I believe stricter restrictions are coming - not because Bob went for a long bicycle ride, but partially maybe because Bob and Julie decided to have a multi generational meet up in the park with different households - but mostly based on the death rate and the length of time it takes to get legislation in. I would predict there will be a stricter enforcement and perhaps definition of the exercise and going out rule because the new rule around MOTs being extended for cars is coming in on Monday 30th March which seems to be a bit of a hint of stricter limits.

The marathon has been cancelled so no need to suddenly require hours of training outside. Just stop trying to bend the rules people. The quicker we all comply the quicker the restrictions will be lifted and you can get back to staring guiltily at your trainers from the comfort of the couch with your ipad and doritos.

Under the new act you are not restricted to once a day either. In section 6, restrictions on movement, it says (6.2b) '...(you are allowed to) to take exercise alone or with other members of the household'. No mention of how often, or for how long, you do it. It's all down to common sense really. If you live in a busy community you may go out less/once to restrict contact, but in a rural area where you see no one, and possibly have no neighbours, well who cares? It's all down to having as little contact as possible with those outside our housemate family, surely?
Despite this there will always be the puritanical mumsnet stasi types who insist you should not even be out in your garden enjoying the sun (yes, I actually saw this) , living on bare rations and keeping a beady eye on your neighbours for infringements, which they can then breathlessly report on their local facebook page.
I bet ww2 brought out similar types as well, they just didn't have so many places to dispense their views.

• The current government guidance is to take "one form of exercise a day, for example a run, walk or cycle - alone or with members of your household". No mention is given to the length of exercise, although Cabinet Minister Michael Gove said on Tuesday that "people can go for the standard length of run or walk that they ordinarily would have done. But… the important thing is, once a day".*

That was posted on the bbc yesterday.

i was so happy last weekend going for a lovely walk in the field and thought if I could spend my days in the field it would be so much better for my mental health

Over 1,000 people have died. The majority had underlying health conditions or were older - that doesn't make their death any less sad or their families loss any easier to bear.

Let's all use common sense shall we. Idlf you live somewhere with massive fields and no one about then go for a walk. If you live in a city don't as much, go as little as possible. Shop as little as possible.

I'm having to go the shop this afternoon. I'm running out of food (hadn't realised just how much I'd eat when wfh). I have to get a bus, I'm terrified. I'm a keyworker working v reduced hours in the actual office, and wfh the rest of the time. I'm terrified getting a bus to work as well. I'm sad for everyone dying but terrified for me and mine. My dad, in a different area (wales) is 67.he lives with my mam who is a carer. Despite warnings I know he will still be making her bed for her, taking her food and carrying her handbag when she comes home off nights. This is serious and quibbling over technicalities will lead to more deaths.

We actually need all the really fit people to stay really fit so that hopefully they won't need a ventilator that might be needed by someone who is less fit. To do that they need to carry on doing the same amount of exercise that they are used to. Everyone needs to use their common sense. If you live somewhere rural with lots of open space where you can go out without meeting people then you are lucky and how long you are out is less relevant. It is more difficult for those who live in urban areas and by being out on the streets for a long time you are adding to the congestion. One size does not fit all here - common sense needs to be applied.

I live in a village and did a brisk walk to a nearby town and back today (just under 15km). It took me 2hrs 20mins and I passed around half a dozen people. I wasn’t within the 2m “safe” distance with any of them. I actually thought that was ok and was going to repeat it tomorrow, but now I’m not so sure having read some of the comments on here.

I was 100% sure it was an 1 hour limit too!?

@bigbluebus , yes that concerns me. Last autumn I could run 3 miles quite easily. For some people that's not a lot but for me I'd got my lung capacity up from being able to run for less than a minute.
I was looking forward to getting back to that level of fitness after having flu over winter.

But I can't do that in the area directly around my home.

It's once a day, I don't think there is a legal limit as such but I am sure i've seen an hour recommended somewhere.

There's no time limit, but Michael Gove suggested an hour was sufficient.

"I would have thought that for most, a walk of up to an hour, or a run of 30 minutes, or a cycle ride between that, depending on their level of fitness, is appropriate," Mr Gove said.

Yep, Dh is fit so went for his usual 1 hour run

And I took the dog out for a slow amble as she sniffs every inch of pavement for the same hour and I covered 2000 steps

That's why there's no rule 🤷‍♀️

"I would have thought that for most, a walk of up to an hour, or a run of 30 minutes

An hour is barely any time at all, though. It's such a low limit.

adeline I knew some pedant would say that. I KNOW Nicola Sturgeon has no duristiction in English law FFS- I was stating what she said in case the OP had heard this and would explain her thought process.

I bloody wish Boris had no duristiction over us.

If we limit it to an hour a lot of people are going to be a lot less fit than they are now. If this carrys on for some time I don't think that's a good thing.