To remind people of the exercise rules

[Orangeblossom78]

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.

It's just if everyone did it it would be hard to social distance. The people giving the OP funny looks might like to do the same but can't because then it would be a gathering even if sat 2 metres away.

I understand why we are in lock down.

Enjoy being miserable and sanctimonious!

Says the sanctimonious poster that decided everyone needed a reminder of the exercise rules...

You aren't the corona police so we aren't going to listen to you especially when you're breaching the guidelines anyway.

Op, you are part of the problem, grow the fuck up.
A fucking family picnic, it's not a day out. Jesus fucking Christ.

‘Or in a picnic basket’

Only a middle class picnic basket

Depends where you live, I live in Devon and our Chief Constable says driving isn't reasonable. I don't agree with him, the beach is a mile from my home but as DH is disabled that isn't possible for him particularly as it is a big hill. So we do drive, probably once a week maybe less depending on how DH is. If we get stopped we will just argue our case, police have seen us there and done nothing but that might have been because they were dealing with a suspected explosive washed up on the beach.

@WorraLiberty ROTFL bloody hilarious

I honestly can’t see the harm in spending half an hour sitting on the grass in the open air. The most risk is from close proximity to other people in confined spaces. The risk of passing on the virus in the open air is so minuscule as to be practically impossible.

If people need to be outside then outside they should be, and sod what the sanctimonious Stasi think

@twosoups1972 yes they do. But there's been a huge increase in people being questioned about what they are doing and lectured about why they are doing it. Only yesterday there was a thread on here because someone had been named and shamed in their local FB group, for not joining in the NHS clap.

My NDN walks his dog three times a day. Have I reported him? No. He's very careful with keeping his distance and I also know he is really struggling with his MH right now.

No doubt some people would look at him and report him for breaking the rules. Is he 'supposed' to go out more than once? No, but in the grand scheme of things it's not affecting anyone else here as there is plenty of space and he's not preventing anyone else from getting out.

There are people who are using these lockdown rules to really unleash their inner fascist and its quite unpleasant.

Enjoy being miserable and sanctimonious!

I’ve not been miserable once, I’m enjoying sunny afternoons in my garden, enjoying baking and cleaning and watching satellites and binging on box sets and gin & tonic and cooked breakfasts.

You carry on trying to catch Covid. I do hope you succeed.

I wish the guidelines were clearer and the same everywhere. The govt could make it clear that you could drive 1 mile or 5 miles or whatever. The Chief Constable says letting people drive will mean people coming in from outside the county but I can't see why that can't be managed, when an officer see you instead of just telling you to go they could ask where you live.

Tbh if you expected this response from NM why even post this? You must know you are in the wrong which is why you are trying to justify it. Dont like it dont ask

I went for a 2 hour walk the other day with DS, posted about it here and somehow we managed to not need to stop for a picnic, just a drink of water.

The difference if OP, you never went for a walk and your kids said they were hungry so you got some cereal bars and juice out of a bag for them to have, you planned a family picnic, packed the stuff up and planned it. That's not in the guidelines. Why would you want to sit in a public area where anyone could have coughed, sneezed or spat? Just have one in your garden

Because the actions of others affect EVERYONE

Not sure how someone stopping to eat for longer than they should, or, in Wales being further away from home than walking distance, affects me in any way shape or form.

The only thing about hanging around somewhere, rather than carrying on moving, is that you are taking up space and people have to give you the 2m distance. So if you do decide you need something to eat and drink, eat and drink it and get moving again. If you are cycling or walking you can probably eat/drink as you go.

The Chief Constable says letting people drive will mean people coming in from outside the county but I can't see why that can't be managed, when an officer see you instead of just telling you to go they could ask where you live

"outside the county" could mean a mile away if you live in a border area

This thread is so MN.

OP: AIBU
Everyone: Yes
OP: No, waaaah waaaah Waaah I’m leaving the thread
Random poster: attempted stealth boast about picnic contents
OP: can’t resist returning to thread

@watertorture

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Sorry I've not time to go trawling for police issued guidance but I think the government's own post should suffice?

I take my dog out for the recommended hour Lucky you don't live in Devon where the police have been known to stop you and ask if you have a garden and send you home to exercise your dog in the garden. The Chief Constable has said he will back his officers issuing tickets if people don't comply.

We are sleep walking into a police state.

"outside the county" could mean a mile away if you live in a border area Indeed it could but considering he doesn't think residents should be able to do it I don't think he'd be interested in it only being a mile away.

Here we go again.....

Curtain twitchers in uproar about a family picnic.....

See screenshot:

I always wondered who the Head Girl on MN was.

@YappityYapYap ‘that’s not in the guidelines’

Yup, it is.

I went on a 2 hour walk yesterday through fields, woodland and small country lanes. I took a bottle of water and stopped for 5 minutes to sit and admire the view and have a drink. How long did you walk for and how long did you stop for?

I can cross a county border ten minutes away. Common sense is needed, if taking small people on a long walk of course they need a rest, it is either that or on daddys shoulders.