Did a few miles on a local trail.
Amazed at how few were there!
Less than yesterday.
Saw two individuals out with dogs. Thats it. Not a runner to be seen.
Yet it is one of the few places off road where feet are kept dry here! Glorious day.
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Did a few miles on a local trail.
Amazed at how few were there!
Less than yesterday.
Saw two individuals out with dogs. Thats it. Not a runner to be seen.
Yet it is one of the few places off road where feet are kept dry here! Glorious day.
Over and around Loughrigg - 8.5 miles or so - lots of dog walkers on the roads, once on the fell only 4 people in total - 2 runners and 2 sitting apart at the top. Easy to keep well over 2 metres from them all, and most gates can be managed using feet, or climbing over well away from the gate. When the weather is so nice it feels creepy to have so few about. Only 3 cars parked near Miller Bridge - usually 20 or so with no free spaces.
sounds like the message might finally be getting through....Quote:
Only 3 cars parked near Miller Bridge - usually 20 or so with no free spaces.
A call of "passing on the right" was needed when a walker ahead of me, who had been on the left side of the path (about 3 metres wide between hedges), veered into the centre when I was about 10 metres away. Anyway, he reacted in the desired way. Plenty of other walkers around, but no problem keeping at least two metres away when I passed them. And the mud is drying up!
I'm torn, because my longer walks are part of my training. So should I put a long hill walk on here or on "today's training"?
It's messing with my head :D
Be honest
7 mile road and trail run. Not a soul around. Felt like the Omega Man!
I live a handfull of miles from the edge of the peak district national park; no end of bridleways/footpaths between me and there. Out for 22Km yesterday (ran over to Cowen Edge) and just saw a few people on the canal right at the start and the end.
22 miles on deserted back lanes. Skies are strangely clear.
7.6 miles, 2:25, 900ft walk around the hills between home and Tockholes with Mrs WP.
Had a chat at a safe distance with a Farmer and his wife while passing through his yard.
Very quiet, cracking the flags :)
Half hour on the mountain bike with OH. Roads are so quiet I dare ride on them.
50-minute walk/jog on local paths. Plenty of walkers, and also cyclists on the bridleway section, but everyone keeping their distance when passing.
A lovely warm and sunny 8 mile circular walk from home with son and dogs today, taking in Magpie Mine and Lathkill Dale. Saw only six other folk out.
Lovely walk on the Gritstone edges of Curbar and Froggatt again this evening. Can't help noticing a proliferation of tissues alongside the paths, people taking the 'bin it' advice without the common sense.
There has been a disintegrating tissue on a small bush near a route I do for a couple of weeks - it is a jolly slow process - I don't know how long any virus on it would last - of course I do not touch/tread on it. Abandoned tissues are a major irritation - people seem to be really reluctant to pick them up once dropped - mainly accidentally under normal circumstances I assume - may be different now.
I am reminded of a valley in Crete - used to be known as the valley of the butterflies - so many came they may as well have changed it to the valley of the tour buses - now our routes are the abandoned tissue routes.
My daily route takes me through an NT car park at the beach, NT say they’ve shut it, what they have actually done is cover the meter thereby making it free parking, my solitary run is now full of people parking up and walking on the beach, ironically they weren’t there before all of this :mad:
Mike T : Wife says typically wont last longer than 72 hours on tissue. It’s a non encapsulated RNA virus. She should know as a biotech science director, that uses live virus. It can last longer on surfaces than tissues.
So am I allowed to drive 3 or 4 miles to go for a run? I was assuming it was best not to but seems like people are still going for walks in the countryside and presumably driving to get there. A few cars up at NT Clent Hills when I cycled past.
Not in the spirit of the lockdown in my opinion, I would imagine that unless someone lives on a roundabout in the middle of the M6 then it’s possible to exercise from the front door, I have heard that the police are now stopping cars to find out where people are going and for what.
It is amazing how many people are out and about running/ cycling etc are these all of the people that throw 40 quid a month at gyms?
Cars and pedestrians being stopped in Birmingham. As an essential supplier to the NHS, all of our staff now have to carry a letter explaining the status of the company and confirming their need to travel.
I'm sure there is a lot of people out there just through sheer boredom.
Another question. If you take your dog for a walk can you still go for a run afterwards. Asking for a friend....
Tell "your friend" to go near a store, and that was the reason for the journey so you (oops I meant your friend) intends to buy pasta from a shelf you ( sorry I meant he)discovers (already knows) is empty - which is why you (I meant they) are not carrying anything. If there are five stores in walking range, that is five reasons "one" can walk the dog. As a runner you can walk a loooonnnng way!
In fact you - I mean they - are being very considerate by merging a dog walk with a necesary food trip, so reducing the number of journeys!
Walk to the shop (long way around) for my meal deal around 11ish. Essential for my lunch.
Bike ride in afternoon for my exercise to help my mental health.
Personally I don't see any problems. I keep well away from anyone else and Tesco have a limited number of people in the shop at a time. 2m lines are also taped on the floor.
There were more cars about today and almost all had their windows open.
On the tarmac zig zags descending towards Miller Bridge/Rothay Park on the lower part of Loughrigg - I come across what I assume to be a household group of three - dad about 45, and sisters in their late teens? One of the girls is ahead and in the middle of the road - I call out "2 metre rule please" and wave my hand to the side - she moves to the side. Her father and sister are a bit behind, and as spread across the road as two people could be - again I call out "2 metre rule please", and they move to one side, but one of the girls laughs, so I say it is not funny - dad replies "well you should be in then". So if you are out, even where 2 metre distancing is easy - you have to accept that the 2 metre gap will be violated! WTF.
Mrs DTR and I have done the same today as you Mike T, a shout of ‘coming through’ seemed to work but still plenty of families spread across the paths to the point that Mrs DTR isn’t keen on going out again as she found it stressful, going to try early morning tomorrow when all the lazy b*ggers are in bed :) what gets me is these people are not normally there when we go out, they’re invading our space twice over.
12 mile, 1000ft, 4 hours on a loop from home to Nab's Head, Hoghton Tower and back.
The worst parts are the first and last 1/4 miles or so in terms of encountering "traffic" because we haven't direct access to the countryside but we manage without a problem by giving wide berths to others.
For 11 miles of today we were in almost isolation.
30-minute run to the Outwoods. Everyone behaving well with regard to the 2-metre rule. But near the end of the run I found myself behind a family of three on a narrow stretch of path, so I walked 5-10 metres behind them until there was more space, and then told them I was coming past on the left -- and they did move across to the right.
I believe there's been some trouble on Pendle with folk from the towns coming out, ill-equipped and getting lost with Mountain Rescue and Police Helicopter involved.
So it looks like Pendle is now on lock-down.
If they just stopped parking, then it would be left to the locals of Barley, Sabden….
That being said, this from Derbyshire Police seems quite sinister.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/vi...lockdown-video
Curbar Edge is hardly remote and if I lived in Baslow or Carver I reckon I could be up there in 10-20 minutes quite legitimately and it would be a good option to go for a walk or run without breaking any guidelines.
I would even go as far as to suggest the cars might be there for valid reasons. My own daughter has been driving 5 minutes from home, just to get away from the local houses and roads, so she can get straight on to rural, open ground and have a walk.
She is a PHD student working from home at the moment, doing lectures at a laptop screen and study work. When I mentioned that she shouldn't drive now to have a walk, she was perplexed. She felt a 5 minute drive to avoid others was responsible and allowed her to get somewhere she wasn't on edge.
So for someone from Chesterfield to head to Curnar Edge I'd say no.
But for someone from Baslow to chuck their dog in the back of the car and drive 5 minutes to commence a walk would seem reasonable to me.
I would certainly expect the police to have something better to do than shame and threaten the people in this video and come up with a better way of discouraging people from driving an unreasonable distance to exercise.
Dave-Mole posted something on facebook which would indicate that the police do not actually have the authority (yet) to stop people driving somewhere to exercise.
I'm not posting an opinion either way, there's too many armchair experts. But i think people need to just be reasonable, and what is necessary and essential to one person, may appear totally unnecessary to another.
I know of 'someone' who drove a fair distance today to pick up some sporting equipment. Was that necessary? On the face of it , no... but that now means the person in question can now get their daily exercise without leaving the garage, thus reducing their contact with the outside world, and their parents of OAP age also now have an option to do some gentle exercise away from public eye.
I think I answered my own question in regards driving 3 or 4 miles to go for a run. Cycled that way this evening and police were blocking the road.
As others have said, I'm sure I would meet far less people and be far easier to maintain some distance than plodding around my local roads and parks. Not sure the constabulary would agree so maybe I'll cycle there, have a short run and cycle back. Tri without the crap bit.
My guess is that piece of sporting equipment was a Decent spec treadmill no not necessary and potentially but hopefully not leathal for you or anybody you came into contact with.
Sorry to preach but the messages are crystal clear
https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/ne...eaton-17882557
I've not been up to Curbar recently but it is on one of my summer evening cycle routes and on virtually every occasion cycling up the steep road to Curbar Gap I could hardly breathe for the clouds of cannabis smoke in the air. It seems to be the place the druggies, boy racers and other assorted halfwits flock to in good weather. The car park at the top of the Gap is also another meeting place for suchlike. It also allows walkers who only like it flat to have easy access to the edges and the beautiful views therefrom.
Being less than 10 miles from Sheffield and Chesterfield is is very accessible to a lot of people.
Apparently, after dusk, the car park is a popular dogging location!
Dog walking in the dark??
My Todays Permitted Exercise was a 40 mile and 4,000ft ride from home out to the Goyt Valley and The Cat and Fiddle, which by the way was due to re-open in April.
About 20 cars parked near the reservoir but I only saw 4 people and a few fellow solo cyclist's.
What I have noticed is that in nearly every village I cycle through there are fat people waddling about whom are not usually there.
Perhaps this pandemic, when its over, might do wonders for the obesity crisis in getting more people to enjoy exercise but I shan't be holding my breath!
I posted a report that the Cabinet Office have said that the restrictions don't apply to exercise and dog walking.
You'd have thought I advocated spitting in the face of OAPs.
As WP has pointed out, it's hard to see how driving a few miles to somewhere with few people and no contact with "surfaces" could be worse than walking in a city centre park. BUT, it's also easy to see how people in the Lakes, Peak District etc are pissed off with people turning up in droves. Of course this is wrong, but, as per social media, the argument has just become polarized on both sides. Ho Hum.
sadly common sense isn't that common, and that applies to all sides here, including the Derbyshire police claiming posing for selfies is "not essential" :)
Fair enough... Yet "the person in question" spent 4 hours outside of the house, without coming into contact with anybody else... Say the lock down lasts another three weeks (very optimistic), they will save approximately 40 hours of time which would be spent out in public, that saving only increasing as the restrictions continue...
Im sure they felt that a minimum 1000% return on their time spent today is justified...