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Mar 2020
9:09am, 26 Mar 2020
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Sigh
Our local news site has posted this today:



I was avoiding the towpaths anyway as they're popular with walkers and hard to maintain a 2-metre zone, but I'll admit I'd never thought about those resident in the barges.
Mar 2020
11:42am, 26 Mar 2020
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SarahWoo
I heard that yesterday and it made me cross, Sigh. How is running past a boat going to put them at risk?
Mar 2020
11:44am, 26 Mar 2020
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DocM
im finding less runners/cyclist say hello as i pass (at a 2m distance). Not sure if it is peoples idea of isolating or if it is because im seeing people who arent used to running
Mar 2020
11:52am, 26 Mar 2020
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Canute
The risk is small. However if you live on a boat, your open-air space is your deck, adjacent to the bank, or a chair placed beside your boat. A runner is likely to compromise the two metre separation temporarily. And if the runner generates a snot rocket….
Mar 2020
11:54am, 26 Mar 2020
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Gogsy!
I think it's the latter DocM - some people don't understand the etiquette when meeting a fellow runner/cyclist … they're following the gym rules of not making eye contact.

Or is that prison? I'm never quite sure :-)
Mar 2020
12:00pm, 26 Mar 2020
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SarahWoo
I guess so, Canute. I can use the canal without passing people living on boats anyway and I suppose one of the reasons I was cross was that I love walking and running on the towpaths so much that I didn't want to contemplate not being able to do so.
Mar 2020
12:56pm, 26 Mar 2020
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Sigh
Here in Stone there are a lot of boats moored along the canal, with folks living on them. TBH it's no different to running past terraced houses with no front garden, and I was surprised to see it.
Mar 2020
1:18pm, 26 Mar 2020
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Canute
Many terraced houses nonetheless provide more space with access to fresh air that is more than 2 metres from the footpath, than is the case with narrow boats.
Mar 2020
1:33pm, 26 Mar 2020
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Turtlemama
Sarah, I've stopped towpath running for now, simply because of the impossibility of maintaining separation should I come across anyone coming the other way. I'm so clumsy I'd probably end up in the canal!
Mar 2020
2:36pm, 26 Mar 2020
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HappyG(rrr)
So lucky with how quiet it is round my way. Really easy to keep 2m away from everything! So I'm running my usual daily run, and discovering all sorts of bits around my house that I haven't before! Stay safe everyone. :-) G

About This Thread

Maintained by Canute
Covid-19 case numbers continue to rise exponentially in the UK.

It is even more crucial to do everything we can to slow the rate of onset of new cases. Nonetheless, exercise remains important for our health.

The relevant piece of the legislation in England is:

The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020

Restrictions on movement

6.—(1) During the emergency period, no person may leave the place where they are living without reasonable excuse.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), a reasonable excuse includes the need—

(a) to obtain basic necessities, including food and medical supplies for those in the same household (including any pets or animals in the household) or for vulnerable persons and supplies for the essential upkeep, maintenance and functioning of the household, or the household of a vulnerable person, or to obtain money, including from any business listed in Part 3 of Schedule 2;

(b) to take exercise either alone or with other members of their household;

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That is an abbreviated version. Here is a link to a more comprehensive specification of section 6:
legislation.gov.uk

Similar regulations apply in Scotland, where section 8, (5) (b) states:
(b) to take exercise, either alone or with other members of their household.
In Northern Ireland, section 5 (2) (b) is the same:
(b) to take exercise either alone or with other members of their household;

In Wales, the regulations state that you can leave the house no more than once a day for exercise, The relevant section [section 8] states:

(b) to take exercise, no more than once a day, either alone or with other members of the household.

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Here is a link to the guidance regarding a reasonable excuse to leave the house, issued by the National Police Chiefs Council (for England):
college.police.uk
Note added 26th May: unfortunately the clear guidelines issued in April have been taken down and replaced by a more complex collection of documents.
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The fact that the government accepts the importance of exercise places a responsibility on us to exercise in a way that reduces our risk of becoming a clinical case rather than increasing our risk.

Here is a review of the factors that influence the relationship between exercise and function of the immune system
fetcheveryone.com/blog/13360/2020/3#blog403926

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