How is your running surviving Covid chaos?

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Apr 2020
2:02pm, 8 Apr 2020
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Canute
On a training matter rather than a covid issue, I am interested in the question of what are the important elements of ‘cool down’. I do not see much value in prolonged cool down. I think that several brief periods of gentle mobilization in the subsequent 24 hours after hard session to minimise the build-up of randomly-oriented collagen fibres as part of the inflammatory response is more useful than a long cool down. However, I am not sure I want to argue with a policeman about the justification of my preferred cool down strategy at the moment; fortunately I do not face the need to do so because I am not doing hard sessions.
Apr 2020
2:11pm, 8 Apr 2020
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Markymarkmark
Canute, I think if the police see you out in what is obviously running kit (or even proper running trainers, TBH), they're unlikely to bother you anyway (unless paired with a hoodie & baseball cap!).

I'm normally too impatient/too busy to do a proper cool down anyway. My normal post-run mobilisation is another run within the next 24 hours!

Just been for a nice 5k in the sunshine, around the Racecourse. More "normal" levels of foot traffic today - maybe the novelty of "having to exercise" is wearing off for some people?

Off at a tangent, I've just seen a police car drive through my estate, for the first time in many, many, months. They're also stopping traffic (randomly?) on the main road into York from the A64. It does beg the question of where have all these police staff come from? They were too short handed to deal with "proper" crime beforehand.
Apr 2020
2:12pm, 8 Apr 2020
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Sharkie
The traditional 'cool down' at my seaside sprint group, whatever the session, was always 100m walk (amble) then a gentle 300m jog round the rest of the track. You could get way with 200 if so minded.

These days after even the toughest of sessions at Lee Valley (and they can be pretty tough) all I do is have a cup of coffee and walk just less than a flat mile to the station.
Apr 2020
2:24pm, 8 Apr 2020
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Gobi
Coaches have various views , now doesnt feel like the time :-)
Apr 2020
7:46pm, 8 Apr 2020
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Cotty67
Out for my early morning run this morning and had an elderly woman run down a path so she didn't have to pass me, sorry but if she was that scared what was she doing out. Prior to that any runners or walkers I met crossed the road and gave a wave or hello 😖
Apr 2020
9:16pm, 8 Apr 2020
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Tim of MK
Now 14 successive days. None were long, not were fast. But all were enjoyable and critical for my mental wellbeing
Apr 2020
9:19pm, 8 Apr 2020
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Derby Tup
Similar here Tim. Keep it up
Apr 2020
9:30pm, 8 Apr 2020
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Bob!
I'm on a 23 day Corona running Streak.
Fetch tells me my longest streak was 31 days in 2011, though the streak measure includes biking and cross training.
Apr 2020
9:35pm, 8 Apr 2020
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Bob!
...just checked the training log, I ran every day in Dec 2011.

So just need to keep my streak going until Friday next week for Day 32 onwards....
Apr 2020
10:47pm, 8 Apr 2020
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njosmith
Maybe, Cotty67, she thought you were scared of her and was just being polite.

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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