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To remind people of the exercise rules

349 replies

Orangeblossom78 · 25/04/2020 09:56

Keep seeing all this stuff where people are making up their own rules and telling people off! we were even glared at while having a family picnic on a long walk yesterday! Please stop with telling people off when they are within the guidelines.

Here is the current situation, as updated about a week ago.

What are the current rules when it comes to exercise in the UK?

Daily exercise, including walking, running, cycling, tending to an allotment or doing yoga is allowed.

You are allowed to drive somewhere to take your exercise. The guidance says, ‘it is lawful to drive for exercise.’ However, ‘Driving for a prolonged period with only brief exercise’ is also deemed ‘not likely to be reasonable’. The rule of thumb? You’re allowed to drive somewhere to go for a walk or run as long as you spend much more time walking than you do driving.

Exercising more than once per day is likely to be allowed if you have a ‘reasonable excuse’ for needing to leave your home.

You are allowed to sit and take a break from exercise, say, on a bench or sitting down in a park. However, this must be for a short time only and, as before, you must spend markedly more time exercising than resting.

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RealLifeHotWaterBottle · 25/04/2020 12:04

My local park is a decent size. For the last 5 years I've been there every day for a walk or run and the amount of picnic / sunbathers over the last two weeks is astonishing compared to "normal".
Large sections become no go areas if you are socially distancing. Its the overall impact.

I'm also unsure why an hour walk would require a 20 min break unless you had very young children/ were elderly / have a disability - that's not really exercising is it? That's just a wee afternoon out.

BlackeyedSusan · 25/04/2020 12:04

an hour is a very long walk if you have a disability. saying it isn't just proves you lack imagination and are probably disablist...

sickofPPEtalk · 25/04/2020 12:05

'To remind people of the exercise rules'....buy having a picnic and declaring its 'funny'....yeah jog on OP, you've made a twat of yourself haven't you.

WorraLiberty · 25/04/2020 12:07

Forget the flatbread

Everyone knows it's the homemade apple crumble muffins that protect us from Covid-19.

Trump's making a vaccine from them as we type.

WorraLiberty · 25/04/2020 12:08

an hour is a very long walk if you have a disability. saying it isn't just proves you lack imagination and are probably disablist...

And where did the OP state she has a disability?

RUSU92 · 25/04/2020 12:08

”Even if everyone who lived in this city sat down for a picnic at the same time, I can’t imagine the green spaces being “full”!

I think you'd find that they were

Just done the maths. 6000 acres of green space = 24,000,000m2 for 225,000 people is around 1000m2 per person. Think we’ll be ok!

derxa · 25/04/2020 12:09

I've just made a lovely picnic for our walk today: flatbreads with houmous, grilled halloumi and roasted peppers, and homemade apple crumble muffins. Bleugh! I'd rather have a pork pie and some Mr Kipling cakes.

Watertorture · 25/04/2020 12:09

I must say I would quite fancy the recipe for apple crumble muffins, but having called their creator a wanker I can't really enquire.

dottiedodah · 25/04/2020 12:09

I take my dog out for the recommended hour .We walk to the river and I sit down for a few minutes,have some water and give her a drink as well.I then move on .Having a picnic means you are sitting on the grass for at least 15 or 20 minutes not moving ,this is against all regulations as I thought about an hour was the allotted time?By the time you have had your picnic,walked there and back and pottered about ,this must be in excess by quite a lot?!Saying you "dont care if you get told off and find it funny" speaks volumes .We are in the middle of a serious threat to public health FFS! If everyone sticks to the rules ,then we will be able to ease these restrictions more quickly!

MargotB7 · 25/04/2020 12:10

I've just made a lovely picnic for our walk today: flatbreads with houmous, grilled halloumi and roasted peppers, and homemade apple crumble muffins.

I don't know why this made me laugh so much. Well done.

Unless you don't have a garden there really isn't any need to do this in lock down. Go on a walk then have your picnic at home.

Orangeblossom78 · 25/04/2020 12:10

Well that backfired OP grin

I think it just demonstrates what I was talking about to be honest

I'd far rather trust the likes if the Independent than the hysterical lockdown stasis on here anyway

Just off to pack up our sandwiches for another picnic! Taking them on a bike ride this time, looking forward to it.

Enjoy being miserable and sanctimonious! Grin

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Hannah021 · 25/04/2020 12:11

@Watertorture youtube is full of 'em, u dont need a wanker's recipe Wink

MargotB7 · 25/04/2020 12:11

Watertorture

Grin
wanderings · 25/04/2020 12:11

MN loves swearing, but I never thought there would be “fucking picnic” 🧺 🍴 so many times on one thread.

As for why these threads have suddenly popped up: I think the halo-polishers are longing for what MN was like a fortnight ago, and have been praying to the late Oliver Cromwell for the return of those times (on MN, God’s existence is highly questionable; Cromwell however was real).

WorraLiberty · 25/04/2020 12:12

Just off to pack up our sandwiches for another picnic!

Do come back when you have less time.

WorraLiberty · 25/04/2020 12:13

@Watertorture youtube is full of 'em, u dont need a wanker's recipe Wink

Yeah, plus I wouldn't trust the cream...

TeensArghhhh · 25/04/2020 12:13

I've just made a lovely picnic for our walk today: flatbreads with houmous, grilled halloumi and roasted peppers, and homemade apple crumble muffins

Hope you had room to pack a bottle of detail and some syringes amongst the rest of the unnecessary crap

HugeAckmansWife · 25/04/2020 12:14

I think people are still somehow thinking that if we do lockdown 'properly' the virus will somehow die out or go away quicker and people 'bending' the rules (which the op isn't) is somehow messing it up. Most of us have or will catch it at some point. SD is to help it slow, not stop. Vaccine testing requires a population who are moving about and spreading it. They can't test its effect if everyone is staying home at all times. Activities like a picnic, not in the middle of a footpath, which I doubt anyone would do help these long days pass and provide many benefits. The increased risk of catching or spreading the virus on a family picnic is genuinely negligible as compared to going food shopping. People have utterly lost their heads with this. It's sad.

MargotB7 · 25/04/2020 12:14

Enjoy being miserable and sanctimonious! grin

I'm not being miserable. I've got loads of wine and nice food for this afternoon. Face timing friends and family.

Enjoy your picnic. I just wouldn't do it.

Watertorture · 25/04/2020 12:16

Thanks Hannah! Not sure they'll be as good as the special homemade ones pp crafted after washing in the milk of Himalayan yaks, but I'll try Grin

Lemonblast · 25/04/2020 12:16

Bless you OP. It’s awful having your arse handed to you on a plate Grin

CecilyP · 25/04/2020 12:17

Obviously I don't know where you live, RUSU92. However, I doubt if the open space and population density is completely even throughout your city. If it's like most places, most of the open space will be within the city's administrative boundaries but not that close to where the the majority of people live, so the parks in the most densely populated areas would preclude social distancing if everybody in the immediate surrounding area decided to go at the exact same time.

ilovesooty · 25/04/2020 12:17

Didn't the OP say she was leaving the thread? Why does she keep coming back then?

WorraLiberty · 25/04/2020 12:18

Bless you OP. It’s awful having your arse handed to you on a plate Grin

Or in a picnic basket.

twosoups1972 · 25/04/2020 12:18

Why can't people just mind their own business?

Because the actions of others affect EVERYONE.