From the BBC summary of Boris’ speech :
If one person in any household has a persistent cough or fever, everyone living there must stay at home for 14 days
Those people should, if possible, avoid leaving the house “even to buy food or essentials” - but they may leave the house "for exercise and, in that case, at a safe distance from others"
Hopefully, but you’ll likely be doing local loops, not heading off to Dartmoor, being far from home won’t be justified.
Exercise has to be maintained, the health loss from stopping it and all incidental exercise from jobs/commute/shopping etc. will be huge otherwise.
Oh I won’t be cycling, gosh no! My bike is barely road worthy! I just meant generally for other people.
I’ll be running as often as I can. But once the inevitable school closure hits, I’ll be number one for the kids as my wife is nhs. Even though she’s part time, I wonder if they’ll offer temporary full time contracts to draft in as much manpower as possible? So that will be night running for me, so even quieter again.
Turbo trainers are going up in price, I looked at one yesterday, clicked on the link and it had gone up about £30
I think the argument in Spain/Italy re no cycling is they don’t want their health services having to deal with accidents/emergency’s as they’re already at the point of collapse
Money making bastards. Should be discounted!
I’ve literally just remembered that I own a rowing machine. God only knows the last time I used it but it’s sat in the loft room (which we never go in) ready to go. Think I just found my WFH/Lunchtime/Swim replacement.
THIS. I actually drove into work today. Saw lots of cyclists though, people who are carrying on as normal. I got into the office and the car park was full, no space! A lot of very important people about…although this maybe as a result of the BoJo press conference coming late in the day yesterday.
Decided to self isolate from the gym for a couple of months. It’s a 24/7 place that’s only manned 1000-2000.
Will miss the Wattbike for a while, just need to set the turbo back up in the shed. Got a few kettlebells and a pull up bar so that will take care of some strength training.
I’ll miss it, but probably for the best for a few months.
Then they’d need to stop everyone from driving as well.
Yes. I drove my car in today but only as it needs it’s MOT. Leaving my house just after 6 I couldn’t believe how busy the roads were.
All the people working in city clearly not trusting public transport it seems.
That would make cycling safer!
Seriously though, I think the Govt will ramp things up pretty quickly now, as people will generally ignore the official ‘recommendations’ like in France.
yeah for sure. Little one had to go to A&E yesterday after her fall from running. Our hospital has separate A&E for kids and Mrs FP said it was like a ghost town and the Drs were glad of something to do!
I suppose there has to be a certain amount of cover in some areas, regardless of what’s happening in others.
I am not really sure what to do now. As you may have seen from my thread I wont be able to do Ironbourne, I am too fat, too unfit and too unmotivated to achieve anything other than a DNF, and I can’t see the point. At the minute everything is too hard. Cycling on the turbo is ok, but boring, running hurts because of my weight. Cycling outside is ok, but even small hills are hard and my HR wont stay down.
I was thinking of doing some swimming and gym work, but now obviously that isn’t really an option. Whilst the pool and gym are still open for now, it doesn’t seem the right thing to be doing. And there is every possibility that in a couple of weeks we will be banned from doing it anyway.
If we are on lock down then I guess I have no choice but the do the turbo and dig out the dumbbells.
What are everyone elses plans for a) the next few weeks, and b) what happens if we go on a fuller lockdown?
Mate, as someone said on ST " unsure about health and income, triathlon don’t mean shit right now". which I fully agree with.
Regards turbo, I think it’s a good opportunity for us to get some TT virtual group riding in. At least we can connect virtually, if not physically.
Regards running, if it hurts, don’t do it but perhaps you could walk. I think that’s ok with Boris isn’t it.
IMO, right now, training means nothing. However, exercising any way we can to stay positive and healthy is a much better goal at the moment. Don’t focus on the race/opportunity lost, focus on being the most content we can be, given the circumstances.
As jorgan says “
improvise and overcome “
I’m in a strange position we’re I have huge amounts of time off, not WFH, but time off …
But with no real chance of racing… as I expect everything up till June to be cancelled by the weekend.
I’ll probably do 12 hours per week, which with no work, kids or chores is very easy
If all this blows over I’ll be back at it… I do plan to run and bike outside more for obvious reasons
Walk / run.
Slow flat bike might suit you at the min
Anything is better than nothing !!
I get all that and I am not bothered in the slightest about races / events. I was merely thinking about my health and getting back into some sort of shape, which isn’t squishy and round. Now I am on forced WFH I am not even getting my daily bike commute.
Not having to get up in the morning also wont keep me off the wine!
We were having that chat too, the wine/beer in the evenings part, with added commute questions from me. When it inevitably happens I’m hoping I’ll have the discipline to sit on the turbo for 45 minutes in the morning and afternoon or out on the roads for a 15 mile loop to try and replicate the commute, that in turn might keep me off the evening alcohol as it has to this point so far in 2020
