Lockdown à la française

[HeavyFoot]

As from last night we’re under curfew and lockdown. At least it’s sunny here.

We are allowed to get out for an hour’s running every day keeping to 1 km from home, carrying a self-signed document. No need for a mask if running.

Poring over my map I see that my usual consolidation run is so wiggly that it doesn’t leave the 1 km radius. I could run it twice in that hour, if so moved.

Otherwise I intend to walk to the supermarket 800m to get more exercise.

I suppose I could run further and break down in tears in front of a policeman saying I’m really lost (doesn’t look good though at my age)!

[nowster Graduate10]

♫ You can't trust the Specials like the old time coppers when you can't find your way home. ♫

[HeavyFoot Graduate10 in reply to nowster]

I might sing that to them. In French 😮

[Buddy34 Graduate10]

I'm glad you can still get out and run even if you have to stay close to home. 😊

[HeavyFoot Graduate10 in reply to Buddy34]

I’ve just realised there’s no time or distance limit for shopping expeditions. I might try distance running with a shopping bag.

[Buddy34 Graduate10 in reply to HeavyFoot]

Think you'll need 2 to balance you out🤣

[Grannyhugs Graduate10]

You sound quite upbeat about your new tight lockdown restrictions. Make the most of that 1k. Happy running 🤗

[Coddfish Graduate10]

Happy consolidating it is then. One area of interpretation to exploit is 1km radius as opposed to always being somewhere where the most direct runnable route home is no more than 1k. Sadly, if this were applied here, a fair bit of my 1k radius would be in the Solent and I’d only have a couple of short sections of my regular open area running routes I could shuttle around, with the rest of the allowed area being residential streets. I suppose that shows how these things fall down.

[HeavyFoot Graduate10 in reply to Coddfish]

It is difficult to set these things in stone without making everyone wear a tracker. The rule does say 1km radius, so I can do 6 km easily within that circle. Not many people could take one hour to do one kilometre🐢