Coronavirus lockdown and exercising outdoors

[Stretched@Birth]

That one.

 

A couple of days ago a muppet comes riding the wrong way down a slipway and I'm riding along, and avoid a head-on collision whilst avoiding the truck from behind, and all I do is shake my head and he starts swearing at me. Even worse the moron was on a mtb and could probably not have been on the road anyway.

Look what the virus dragged in! How you doing TNT1? Been a long time since you’ve posted here, welcome back!

[Vetplant]

Fair enough, you do you. I’m not saying in a field on you own is a dick move but understand that older people are scared to go to exercise because people can’t be bothered to make the effort how ever misguided they may think it is.

 

As for the throwing about ER part. There are a lot of people working hard. Your wife included. My brother in law included, unfortunately he died last week in the UK after returning to be an A&E doc at the start of the outbreak. Leaving a 8 week old boy and a 3 year old girl. Maybe my view is tainted by that and my actions really are ‘pointless’ and have no purpose.

 

And as for cycling being a right. Yeah of course. You’re right.

Condolences man. Look after yourself.

[Vetplant]

Our condolences to you and your family.

 

My sister and our neighbour are on the front line with this in the medical field, couple of friends as well. One of my sister's staff has contracted it. At least two of my neighbours staff has contracted it, they are now waiting for the test results from the contacts of the second case, so possibly more in their facility.

 

 

And with a friend in his second week in ICU our view is also "tainted" right now ... this have been the longest 9 days for his family !!

Good luck Chris. We also have quite a few health care workers in the family. Very concerned for all of them going forward.

 

Highly likely that this thing will affect someone we know in the near future.

[Rigardt@Scott]

Fair enough, you do you. I’m not saying in a field on you own is a dick move but understand that older people are scared to go to exercise because people can’t be bothered to make the effort how ever misguided they may think it is.

 

As for the throwing about ER part. There are a lot of people working hard. Your wife included. My brother in law included, unfortunately he died last week in the UK after returning to be an A&E doc at the start of the outbreak. Leaving a 8 week old boy and a 3 year old girl. Maybe my view is tainted by that and my actions really are ‘pointless’ and have no purpose.

 

And as for cycling being a right. Yeah of course. You’re right.

I'm sorry for your loss, that is truly terrible. Condolences and sterkte...

[Mamil]

Back from my Sunday morning jaunt - 2 hours of feeling like a pinball bouncing around in a giant machine - the Roodebloem Raider or the Pinelands Pinner or the Newlands Nutter. 

 

One silver lining of the 5k limit is that, over delicious post ride coffee, I sit in front of what has become the Mamil command console in what I grandiosely refer to as study (kindle, Kickr, Audio GD DAC and Maverick Audio A1 Tube/hybrid amp and a pair of ancient Sony speakers - don't scoff they are magnificent) and plot out bits of my tangled weave of a route that define public segments that I now hold the KOM on because in some cases, I'm the only MOFO who's ridden them.

 

Ha!

 

And I'm not telling any of you other muppets where they are because some skinny little shrimp with an FTP 35 watts below mine will go steal them. 

 

Edit - F$3K ---  I just seen Strava dug up some oke called the Germanator's ride from 2015 who stole my KOM by 5 seconds on a a 7.30 minute effort. 

[Jaco Steyn]

I have to bow my head in shame and confess i just could bot get myself to go out and cycle this morning. It was just too cold, about 5 degrees. The predicted temperature for a bit later did not look much better. It was 9 degrees at 09:00.

 

In my defence, I just do not have proper cycling kit to cater for the colder weather. At best I can put on arm warmers and a t-shirt underneath my cycling top. But I only have "normal" open finger gloves. If only this damn virus wasn't so very contagious after 09:00, I could have gone out a bit later.........

[The Ouzo]

Icy cold wind out on the East today. Really sapped my energy so I cut the ride short as I was just not enjoying myself.

Was getting very irritated with the groups this morning though, not just 3 or 4 people but groups of 10 plus riding around.

[Jbr]

 

Pretty happy with this one ! Damn it's cold already ! Any tips to avoid frozen toes ?

[Eugene Oppelt]

First light.

 

[FirstV8]

Our condolences to you and your family.

 

My sister and our neighbour are on the front line with this in the medical field, couple of friends as well.  One of my sister's staff has contracted it.  At least two of my neighbours staff has contracted it, they are now waiting for the test results from the contacts of the second case, so possibly more in their facility. 

 

 

And with a friend in his second week in ICU our view is also "tainted" right now ... this have been the longest 9 days for his family !!

 

My company is a hygiene and PPE product supplier and my one son and wife are paramedics so being in the front line is something i know very well . We have a very strict protocol for couriers collecting , walk in customers and casual lets see what you sell  type customer . We do all the temp checks , hand wash and even go so far as to spray the customers clothing if they want to walk through our stores . We dont allow them to touch any product that we need to sell on again . We have started doing sanitizing (Fogging ) of offices , warehouse and factories so we sanitize our own warehouse and office every afternoon when we close . Im retired and use to go into the office once a week and not done that since a two weeks before lockdown .   

[Gen]

My company is a hygiene and PPE product supplier and my one son and wife are paramedics so being in the front line is something i know very well . We have a very strict protocol for couriers collecting , walk in customers and casual lets see what you sell type customer . We do all the temp checks , hand wash and even go so far as to spray the customers clothing if they want to walk through our stores . We dont allow them to touch any product that we need to sell on again . We have started doing sanitizing (Fogging ) of offices , warehouse and factories so we sanitize our own warehouse and office every afternoon when we close . Im retired and use to go into the office once a week and not done that since a two weeks before lockdown .

Sorry to go a bit off topic.. how does the fogging work, which products are used when you do the fogging, and is it worth having it done at one's home?

[Gen]

Fair enough, you do you. I’m not saying in a field on you own is a dick move but understand that older people are scared to go to exercise because people can’t be bothered to make the effort how ever misguided they may think it is.

 

As for the throwing about ER part. There are a lot of people working hard. Your wife included. My brother in law included, unfortunately he died last week in the UK after returning to be an A&E doc at the start of the outbreak. Leaving a 8 week old boy and a 3 year old girl. Maybe my view is tainted by that and my actions really are ‘pointless’ and have no purpose.

 

And as for cycling being a right. Yeah of course. You’re right.

My deepest condolences

[ivan888]

 

Pretty happy with this one ! Damn it's cold already ! Any tips to avoid frozen toes ?

I stay in that area. Well done! How many laps was that?

[Jbr]

Depends where you consider the start to be but I went in front of Doodles south bound 8 times, and I finished the 100km between doodles and pakalolo !

 

EDIT : I have created a segment for this loop, starting at the top of the big bay hill. It's a 12,8km loop, that I did 7 times (almost 90km) + a little bit before and a little bit after the start/finish line !

https://www.strava.com/segments/24038591

 

I actually found this loop on a an activity from a couple of guys who smashed it last week (110+km averaring 36/37km but not solo, they were 2/3 according to strava), it's actually a very nice loop because you can almost never stop (you only turn left) or you have circles when you turn right, it's not too hilly but not completely flat so the hills give you nice downhills to recover !

 

The only issue is the cold air when you go down the hill at 40+ kph, my toes were killing me

[Jewbacca]

Sorry to go a bit off topic.. how does the fogging work, which products are used when you do the fogging, and is it worth having it done at one's home?

We run a cleaning company and have the 'fogging' machines for internal and external sanitizing.

 

Our machines are akin to high pressure hoses with nozzles. The product we use clouds, then settles and after a lay time of a few hours (enough time to decontaminate) becomes inert and invisible, non toxic and safe, so no wiping down or item cleaning the next day.

 

We have switched focus from our normal avenue to accommodate sanitation stations at entrances/exits and the decontamination and other 'new' practices. 

 

It's been quite a learning curve!

[Gen]

We run a cleaning company and have the 'fogging' machines for internal and external sanitizing.

 

Our machines are akin to high pressure hoses with nozzles. The product we use clouds, then settles and after a lay time of a few hours (enough time to decontaminate) becomes inert and invisible, non toxic and safe, so no wiping down or item cleaning the next day.

 

We have switched focus from our normal avenue to accommodate sanitation stations at entrances/exits and the decontamination and other 'new' practices.

 

It's been quite a learning curve!

Very interesting I have noticed a few adds on various FB groups offering these services.

 

 

I am just thinking that when domestic help may return if this isn't maybe going to be a requirement before they may return.