Dorset
The Voice Of Reason
Founding Member
After over 50 days of house arrest we have been allowed out for a walk or exercise. It's very complicated for folks who don't live in small municipalities like wot we do, they have time zones for seniors, children and normal human beans We can go out between 6am and 11 pm, once only and within a 1km radius of our house if we are walking, but if we are doing exercise like jogging or cycling we can go anywhere within our municipality, which don't help much because I don't think anywhere is more than 1km alway! i might even break the rules a bit if nobody else is around and stop and look at the Meditteranean - of course if I see a copper I will jog on the spot to show I am exercising.
...... walking......
Aarrrgghh! My legs are cream-crackered, they haven't done much for 7 weeks and now I subject them to this:
Map My Walk is great, like all of these apps it sort of forces you into doing something or you feel guilty for ignoring it. Mrs D has got a fitbit, and that bugger moans at her if she doesn't do her daily exercise - she does of course because like all wives she is perfect! OK, for you fit blokes my walk was pretty pathetic, but look at that massive elevation gain of 10m! Yeah, pretty much all sea level here. 4,58 km ain't bad for the first time out of the house in 7 weeks.
Social distancing was tough, here's a snap of the hoards of people on the forbidden beach, forbidden because it is in the next municipality, we would be arrested instantly if we ventured onto it, nah, not really, you do see the occasional plod round here, but they are not going to go all Covid Cop on us.
I have got a bit lardy in the past 7 weeks, proved to me yesterday when my favourite shorts no longer made it round my gut, and that is really, really bad. If you look at the Covid figures, you have a nearly 40% higher chance of croaking if you have a BMI over 30 , if you could be arsed reading my other rambling rant, obesity is one of the leading causes of early death and chronic conditions like diabetes, kidney disease, cancer, which again increase your risk of being brown bread if you cant the virus. So, get fit chaps, ditch the extra kilos.
...... walking......
Aarrrgghh! My legs are cream-crackered, they haven't done much for 7 weeks and now I subject them to this:
Map My Walk is great, like all of these apps it sort of forces you into doing something or you feel guilty for ignoring it. Mrs D has got a fitbit, and that bugger moans at her if she doesn't do her daily exercise - she does of course because like all wives she is perfect! OK, for you fit blokes my walk was pretty pathetic, but look at that massive elevation gain of 10m! Yeah, pretty much all sea level here. 4,58 km ain't bad for the first time out of the house in 7 weeks.
Social distancing was tough, here's a snap of the hoards of people on the forbidden beach, forbidden because it is in the next municipality, we would be arrested instantly if we ventured onto it, nah, not really, you do see the occasional plod round here, but they are not going to go all Covid Cop on us.
I have got a bit lardy in the past 7 weeks, proved to me yesterday when my favourite shorts no longer made it round my gut, and that is really, really bad. If you look at the Covid figures, you have a nearly 40% higher chance of croaking if you have a BMI over 30 , if you could be arsed reading my other rambling rant, obesity is one of the leading causes of early death and chronic conditions like diabetes, kidney disease, cancer, which again increase your risk of being brown bread if you cant the virus. So, get fit chaps, ditch the extra kilos.