My fitness levels are dropping
i'm losing my peak
Buy a skipping rope then 😉 Professional boxers skip all the time.
Jump rope is not just one of the most affordable pieces of equipment; it’s also one of the most efficient training tools for boxers, and all other athletes, who want to improve footwork, endurance, quickness, explosiveness, coordination and more.
'Endurance, quickness, explosiveness', aren't these attributes a keen amateur cyclist holds high 😕
You can skip at home, in the garden, and even concoct little foot dances.
And when not skipping, why not take up knitting. Knit yourselves an STW musette bag 😀
You can skip at home, in the garden, and even concoct little foot dances.
so probably takes care of exercise if you can cope with it*, not sure about the psychological/mental wellbeing bits. Lockdown is negatively affecting a lot of people's mental/emotional wellbeing, you need some headspcae, peoples needs differ, you can't just run prescribed mandatory physical and mental wellness exercises
*I'm not a fan of running but I can go do 40-60mins run, but 10mins on a treadmill is purgatory, likewise don't even bother suggesting I buy a turbo.
The legislation says you can go out to exercise, but sets no limit other than it must be “reasonable”.
We can argue on here all we like, but only the Police, CPS and ultimately the courts will determine what is reasonable. I’d prefer not to be the guy who is in the court case that may spoil the riding for a lot of other people, so I’m trying not to be a dick.
Quite obviously, no one is going to be prosecuted for a few hours of responsible, solo, socially distanced exercise.
noticed someone I follow had done a 142km ride yesterday. In Wales.
A friend of mine in North Wales is doing that more or less every other day. All solo road riding. No issue for me.
I'm doing 400km myself some weeks (not in Wales) but that's not much different to what I'd be doing in commuting anyway so 🤷🏻♂️
Quite obviously, no one is going to be prosecuted for a few hours of responsible, solo, socially distanced exercise.
The authorities seem to understand that solo cyclists doing more than maybe was intended is not the high risk behaviour they need to focus on for enforcement. But if I was stopped 50 miles from home halfway through a 6 hour ride, I'm not sure I could stand up in court and argue that I was being reasonable either.
Nobody has, because it hasn’t been.
yeah thought so, yet lots of people basing their workouts/leisure time on this (and seemingly quite a few curtain twitchers basing their vitriol on it too)
But if I was stopped 50 miles from home halfway through a 6 hour ride, I’m not sure I could stand up in court and argue that I was being reasonable either.
That would be bad planning, don't do out and backs, most of us can do quite long rides and still stay close, say 10 miles, to home, not getting caught 50miles/3hours from home either by the authorities or mechanicals is sound advice any time.
I've started skipping, for days when I'm doing a dog walk instead of bike ride for my out-of-the-house exercise.
Jesus Christ, it's intense.
noticed someone I follow had done a 142km ride yesterday. In Wales.
What is the problem? Do they live in London or something?
A 30 min jog around busy London streets is a massive risk multiplier of those risks compared to a 2+ hr 40m solo ride around country roads or bridal paths all within 10 miles of the house. The difference between a 10 mile and 40 mile country ride is pretty insignificant in terms of risk and contagion multiplication. The difference between 3 laps walk around busy suburbia and being out for 3 hours in that location could be massive.
Quite. Saw way way way fewer people on my 100km ride yesterday than I did on my 7km jog round the local park on Saturday...
Ok before lockdown, how many people on this forum rode 35 miles + more than 4/5 days a week for “exercise”.
Me, and clearly many others?
See, the more I read replies on this thread, and the more I see what other folk are doing, the more I'm thinking that a bivvy out over the next few days seems entirely reasonable. I mean, it's only two consecutive days of exercise, punctuated with a kip in a (isolated) ditch!
Are you calling that ditch (2nd) ‘home’ for the night?
If I lay my hat there....
But if I was stopped 50 miles from home halfway through a 6 hour ride, I’m not sure I could stand up in court and argue that I was being reasonable either.
Why do you think you would be stopped in the first place?
Even if you were stopped (for some unfathomable reason) do you think anyone would actually take you to court on a charge of "cycling unreasonably"?
See, the more I read replies on this thread, and the more I see what other folk are doing, the more I’m thinking that a bivvy out over the next few days seems entirely reasonable. I mean, it’s only two consecutive days of exercise, punctuated with a kip in a (isolated) ditch!
Careful now, someone will spot you in that ditch and soon everyone will be at it.
Careful now, someone will spot you in that ditch and soon everyone will be at it.
Although that's an extreme example there is something in it. If more people are doing stuff that bends or breaks the rules then that will normalise it and others will follow suit. If people want to do that kind of stuff then that's their choice but they should at least do it totally under the radar and not crow about it on social media.
I could easily ride 100 miles and never be more than a few miles from home, just do my local 10 mile loop a few times.
As I mentioned earlier on in the thread. It's beginning to crumble.
You could look at that two ways - either demand more restrictions and a total lockdown or just say that you know what, a 150km ride alone in the lanes is far from the worst things that's happening if families are sneaking up to second homes, going wild camping on the shores of Coniston or in the case of one re-opened retail park in the NE, causing absolute traffic chaos by queuing up for a drive-thru Costa (various newspaper articles and links if you search for it).
That'll explain why the 7 day average of coronavirus cases is increasing rather than decreasing, because everyones out on their bikes doing more than 35 miles.
My wife asked why I'd been out for more than the hour I'd said I'd be. I said if I'd only gone out for an hour I'd still be five miles from home.
You can use this if anyone else in authority asks you, I'll let you.
