What's wrong with going out more than once?

[Oscarthegrouch47]

An expecting a flaming here but -

What's the issue with going for a walk twice a day? The government have said once for exercise but i like to take my dog for 20 minutes in the morning and a slightly longer route of half an hour in the evening. I live rurally and rarely see anyone at either time.

I am taking the rules about isolating and mixing between households very seriously and haven't seen anyone or been anywhere other than shopping or walking since this began, but taking two walks a day is something I really can't get het up over.

What is the actual reason that our exercise has been limited? Presumably because it increases the likelihood of contact in busier, more urban areas? I'm sure a few of my curtain twitching neighbours have noticed me going out more than once a day but I genuinely can't see the additional risk when I see nobody and come into contact with nothing (gates, stiles).

I would just go out twice. Living rurally is very different to being in a city.

Police guidelines here even say that exercising more that once is “likely to be reasonable”.
www.college.police.uk/What-we-do/COVID-19/Documents/What-constitutes-a-reasonable-excuse.pdf

You never see anyone? Never? Where do you live?

You never see anyone? Never?

The op says “rarely”. Nowhere does she use the word “never”.

The reason for the once a day is because the rules are set to the lowest common denominator e.g super simple so everyone can understand them.

They don't prohibit those of us with enough common sense going out twice if we can easily avoid ppl both times.

The Mumsnet frothers will be along time tell you 'oh if everyone WENT OUT TEN TIMES A DAY'

But clearly a person with common sense isn't going to walk ten times a day. But they might need to do two dog walks.

You crack on OP.

I think that's fine OP. The government guidelines have to been expressed in clear, simple terms rather than covering every situation separately. The risk is mixing with other people and clearly you're not doing that.

The more often everyone goes out, the more crowded it is outside.

Having said that, as pp says, it's not actually "against the law". DP is going out twice (he has CFS and can only walk for 5 minutes at a time) and surely dog owners who live in flats must be too..

I think you have to make your own judgement about whether you really need to and how busy it is in your area.

Nothing wrong with it. I don’t even have a dog and I’m taking 2 walks a day.

I’m intelligent enough to know that I am not increasing any risks by doing this, as long as I adhere to social distancing measures.

I couldn’t give a shit if my neighbours have an opinion on it TBH

You can go out twice. Police have confirmed its reasonable.

There is nothing wrong with it

They have released some clarification now and it says that you can go out for exercise as many times as you like as long as you have a reason.

So you can walk your dog twice.
You can go for a bike ride with your son and a walk with your wife.
You can even go and do yoga in the park and then a jog later.
You just can't go for a wander 4 times a day because you're board.

You can - shock horror- sit down and have a rest and some food while your out for your excersie too.

Seems to me that a lot of the lock down nazis were in the wrong.

@PurpleDaisies

"I genuinely can't see the additional risk when I see nobody and come into contact with nothing"

She's deluding herself about the risks she is posing. She can't even be consistent within 1 post.

Common sense dictates that two separate half hour walks is no more risky than a single one hour walk. Similarly a walk in a rural area is less risky than a walk in a city. The government guidelines have to assume nobody has common sense and therefore be quite prescriptive and say "once a day" to keep it simple. If it said "once a day, except..." and then a list of common sense exceptions, it would be too complicated.

Come on floaty, it’s obvious the op means she hardly sees anybody. That’s what he word “rarely” means.

You don’t seem to have any understanding of the risks caused by going out for a walk where you hardly ever see anyone.

Sigh. Read the rules. They apply to everyone. Stop trying to find loopholes.

She's deluding herself about the risks she is posing. She can't even be consistent within 1 post

Oh come on! I take the dog out either first thing in the morning (when I genuinely see no one), or in the late evening (when I see maybe 2 people, but from a fair distance). So I could say ‘I rarely see anyone’ (as I do occasionally see people with my eyes), but also could say ‘I see nobody’ as I’m never close enough to anyone to even see if they wave, let alone shout a greeting.

Just because you can though doesn’t mean you have to, if you can limit then you should do that. If everyone went out twice or more then there would be far more people out at the same time. Obv different in different areas, but even so unless you really NEED to go out you should stay in

Some is different to nobody. But she only sees no/some people because others are staying at home. Im sure if all her neighbours acted like her it wouldn't be so quiet and pleasant for her. It's basically the people most willing to stretch the rules that win at the moment.

Did you read the police clarification of the guidelines I posted @giraffey1?

@Floatyboat pedantic much? 😂😂

On my morning walk I almost NEVER see anyone as I go very early. In the afternoon I may see one or two people from a distance. But given the nature of the area I walk it is possible to avoid them completely and not come within 100m never mind 2m.

There's nothing wrong with that and never has been. I've been doing that from the beginning despite being ripped into on MN it. Thankfully people seemed to have calmed down a bit and I suspect some have name changed to get away from their ridiculous posting behaviour when lockdown was first implemented.

Here we go with another thread of nit picking nancies who would shoot their neighbours for stepping off the drive.

OP you're doing nothing wrong.

Just because the police won't bother you for stopping to eat does not mean everyone should stop and eat just because they can get away with it.

Here’s what the police say about exercise...

I also think it’s fine. You going out twice a day for 50 mins is no worse than me going out once for an hour, in my opinion.

We also live rurally, so I think common sense should prevail. There will, of course, be people who completely disagree.

@PurpleDaisies ahh that surprises me as I thought we weren't meant to be driving anywhere for exercise. I certainly wouldn't be doing that at the minute.