How is your running surviving Covid chaos?

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Mar 2020
12:58pm, 22 Mar 2020
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Surrey Phil
Yeah, I think I posted the link on another thread. I don't think I would do 228 times up and down my garden. The neighbours would be summoning a white van to take me away if they saw me doing that.
Mar 2020
1:54pm, 22 Mar 2020
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icenutter
I was battling runners knee before things stepped up a gear last weekend. So, while initially disappointed that my marathon plans have been thwarted, it’s pushing me to rest it which is probably a god thing.
Mar 2020
1:59pm, 22 Mar 2020
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Tim of MK
I run on the estuary sands at low tide. They're huge, so easy to see others and keep them at a distance.
Mar 2020
2:00pm, 22 Mar 2020
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McGoohan
Not in MK then I assume Tim? ;-)
Mar 2020
12:55pm, 23 Mar 2020
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Rosehip
I did a little 4-miler up and down the riverbanks this morning. Apart from the workmen doing whateveritis they are doing to the road-bridge, I saw no-one. Three kissing gates which were easy to open with my elbow. Two metal gates I hadn't seen before - so I won't go that way again - covered hand with t-shite to open them.
Lovely spring morning, it probably did more good for my mental health than my physical.
Mar 2020
12:56pm, 23 Mar 2020
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Wriggling Snake
8k, relatively early, nobody about.
Mar 2020
1:31pm, 23 Mar 2020
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larkim
Ref that Frenchman on his balcony. I don't want to pour scorn on a "good news" story, but basically he had a GPS watch or phone on, bouncing around all of the place with false readings over 6 hours and is then claiming it means he ran a marathon distance. I'm sure he went back and forth a lot but there's no way he can tell he did a marathon distance without counting the iterations!

Proper run for tonight hopefully, did a virtual 10k on Saturday am which was strangely motivating!
Mar 2020
1:42pm, 23 Mar 2020
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McGoohan
I am going to measure my garden perimeter with my Garmin. Will report back shortly.
rhb
Mar 2020
1:54pm, 23 Mar 2020
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rhb
No running at all. Hasn't seemed important plus I was saving my energy for bike commuting each day.
Mar 2020
2:26pm, 23 Mar 2020
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McGoohan
Okay, 22 times round my garden was 0.25 miles. That's 88 times round for a mile and 2307 times around for a marathon.

Mind you, only 273 times round for a parkrun.

About This Thread

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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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