Don't ride in groups or we will be stopped cycling completely.

[vickster]

It’s about keeping people indoors, exercise is the one thing of the 4 permitted practices that doesn’t have to involve going away from the house

"You can only go out for food, health reasons (exercise, medical, or caring for others), or to go to work if you cannot work at home."
Of course, many medical appointments have been postponed or been moved to remote where feasible

 

[ChrisEyles]

Just saw this and kind of bricking it on a personal level... My mental health has been up & down over the past few years and getting exercise outdoors is pretty much what keeps me on the straight & narrow.

Never thought this would be deemed necessary, but looks like a plausible scenario now.

 

[rogerzilla]

I can see it happening. At least I have a garden to rattle around in, a pretty much unlimited list of outdoor jobs that can be done and a basic Tacx Blue to keep me fit. People who live in small flats are going to go stir crazy.

 

[matticus]

We're closing parks: Berlin, Chicago , Calgary etc close roads to motor traffic, making them safer to exercise in/on.

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

Amazes me that people who have clearly never exercised, are now basically personal trainers and are never at home

 

[RoadRider400]

Quite frankly he can sod off if he wants to ban all exercise. Why cant they just gather up the miscreants and chuck them in a van straight to the cells? But no we have to penalise the masses rather than the minority. If they ban exercise then I guess I cant cycle anymore. But will be going for a gentle jog for a few miles on the empty streets in the silly hours of the morning. As a sub 20minute parkrunner if they can catch me then they deserve my money.

 

[mjr]

Amazes me that people who have clearly never exercised, are now basically personal trainers and are never at home

To be fair, I think Londoners do walk around more than most English, especially in places like Lambeth with many small flats and gardenless houses and below-average car ownership. This crisis is highlighting many places have insufficient remaining open spaces and footways and cycleways that are too narrow (dangerously narrow now) but it's far easier for government and elite media owners to divert blame to the residents than accept that. Don't help them.

 

[Mugshot]

To be fair, I think Londoners do walk around more than most English, especially in places like Lambeth

Well obviously.

 

[mjr]

It’s about keeping people indoors, exercise is the one thing of the 4 permitted practices that doesn’t have to involve going away from the house

And there I was, in danger of thinking it was about reducing transmission of the virus!

 

[Dogtrousers]

Well obviously.

Oi!

 

[vickster]

And there I was, in danger of thinking it was about reducing transmission of the virus!

 

[ianrauk]

Well obviously.

Very good

 

[matticus]

Amazes me that people who have clearly never exercised, are now basically personal trainers and are never at home

Some of these people are going a bit crazy with fear, uncertainty, and/or plain cabin fever. Give em a break!

 

[Dogtrousers]

So if I went down to the park and (provided it's not been closed) found a secluded patch of grass and did press-ups and situps and so on I would be a model citizen taking my exercise. But if I stopped moving momentarily and soaked up some rays the Daily Mail reading finger-pointers would descend on me.

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

Some of these people are going a bit crazy with fear, uncertainty, and/or plain cabin fever. Give em a break!

True, lets go out to a place with hundreds of others 😭😂