If they say you cant go out would you still go out running?

Austrian runner wrote:

Guys, calm down. Austria imposed a lockdown. However, you can still go for a walk/run if you don't meet up with people you don't live with. Makes sense to me. Actually, it will be epic to run in mostly empty streets.

Are you sure? It seems other countries are taking a much firmer line and specifying that only brief dog walks are allowed.

Police in Spain are reportedly patrolling parks and ordering people to go home.

I took a look at some popular Barcelona segments on Strava and I only found one guy who did a run today - somebody has posted the following comment underneath his post : 'Taking advantage of the last day without being fined for running?'

@Brojos - can you make an official thread to share ideas on how to get through a period where many of us wont be able to run outdoors?

Looks like Czech running is alive and well on Strava. It's a hopeless threat to keep people inside, especially as my old club near the Polish border (S. Poreba) put in 20km this morning in the mountains. CR does not have the police manpower across the country to enforce. They will focus on Prague and major metropolis

I was out on the trails yesterday and there were lots of people out running. Probably more than normal.

Shouldn’t be a problem where I live as I am pretty rural. Y’all in your densely populated coastal cities are screwed, though.

Madrid (the city) just outlawed people going out for running or walking apparently.

They think they are still living under Franco? That's way too much and I would not respect it if I was spanish.

What if you go out and they start spraying the streets with pesticides and bleach?

Coevett wrote:

Assist feel wrote:

I know I would. Absolutely no risk going on a run alone.

In the Czech Republic it's arrest and a $150,000+ fine if you are outdoors without a medical certificate signed by your doctor for those quarantined, and it's looking likely the entire population will be quarantined in the next few weeks.

In such a situation, going outside in running gear will lead to instant arrest and said fine, at least if you live in a city where you'll be noticed straight away.

This is going to have a massive impact on the development of young athletes in the Western hemisphere. No doubt in places like Kenya they will never introduce such draconian measures, and the police can easily be bribed off with $2 tea money anyway.

Why would missing a few weeks or even months of training have A Massive Impact on Young Athletes? I mean I have read of very high level runners, taking 1-3 months off from running to regenerate, also top athletes miss months due to injury or illness and come back fine, Look at Evan Jager he missed a whole year, runs his first race in over a year, runs 3:56 Indoors in a low key meet, over 4 months away from when his important races happen.

Austrian runner wrote:

Guys, calm down. Austria imposed a lockdown. However, you can still go for a walk/run if you don't meet up with people you don't live with. Makes sense to me. Actually, it will be epic to run in mostly empty streets.

What's it like in a lockdown? Are there police and/or MPs at every street corner with binoculars? How about police/military helicopters conducting surveillance day & night?

Lol!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8113661/Londons-usually-busy-streets-look-deserted-people-stay-away-coronavirus-outbreak.html

According to a doctor quoted in a Spanish paper I just read, the reason for the ban on running or physical activity is because if you fall over or injure yourself, you are taking valuable medical resources away from coronavirus patients. Seems ridiculous to me. Surely the benefits of keeping fit and healthy and then not requiring medical help if and when you catch the virus outweighs such risks?

What if I just go out for sports or solo excursions?

Putting yourself at risk with a fall will force you to consume health resources that are now essential to attend to the thousands of positive cases of coronavirus. "A heart attack or the rupture of an aorta are emergencies and are unpredictable health problems that must be addressed, just like the coronavirus; an accident by climbing stones on the mountain to sunbathe can be avoided so as not to strain the system" .

Why is there a risk in gyms?

Municipal gyms have closed. However, there are still private facilities open. If you still have doubts, Julio Mayol helps you clear them: "Do gymnastics today and you can be intubated tomorrow . " During physical effort, it is much easier for someone who transmits the infection to produce aerosols and the virus to spread more easily within the facilities.

Dang you got him good. I don’t think he’ll recover from that

I sure will. It is not clear to me how me running on my own will hurt anyone or cause the further spread of this virus. If it can be explained to me logically why I am hurting others or causing further spread of this virus then maybe I wouldn't run otherwise I'll be out there.

Running is good for your health.

Assist feel wrote:

I know I would. Absolutely no risk going on a run alone.

Yes. But I might run at night without a light.

Hey, remember when all we had to talk about was if those new nike bouncy shoes were fair or not?

HA HA HA HA HA!

(cracked myself up)

AmishAdjacent wrote:

I was out on the trails yesterday and there were lots of people out running. Probably more than normal.

Update: Today the trails were more crowded than I've ever seen them.

Abeneziel wrote:

Madrid (the city) just outlawed people going out for running or walking apparently.

They think they are still living under Franco? That's way too much and I would not respect it if I was spanish.

There are basically two ways to make stupid laws go away. 1) Peaceful but persistent resistance (ie we all go run as we normally would), which makes people realize the law isn’t doing anything useful and they either don’t enforce it or change the law. 2) Merciless and draconian enforcement of the law, which eventually generates a massive and many times violent backlash from the population, which gets the law changed.

Hope for #1.

In America, when you have a choice to stay home, I don’t understand why forcing everyone to stay home would even be a consideration. Fear has made us go mad. It’s the same sentiment that allowed the government to forcibly remove Japanese people from their homes circa WW2. It concerns me in the context of what we’ll allow the government to do if things were really bad and not just another respiratory illness.

I will not be quarantined. No way anyone is policing people out in the middle of Timbuktu.

seattle prattle wrote:

Hey, remember when all we had to talk about was if those new nike bouncy shoes were fair or not?

HA HA HA HA HA!

(cracked myself up)

:)