Coronavirus lockdown and exercising outdoors

[RocknRolla]

wait

 

people go to malls?

 

 

[Eddy Gordo]

How are the cops going to catch you? I haven't heard of anyone being caught outside their POT. I see a lot of people in my area whom I know live a long way from me and they're way outside their radius...I mean waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay outside. Just going through my strava "following" there's plenty of people riding to areas where there are far less people but these areas are outside their radius.

I don't see how being outside your radius spreads the virus if its killed by sunlight and is dissipated quite rapidly but thats just me applying logic to what the health experts are saying about this thing. 

The only way you will get caught is if:

 

1) Government passes a law that require the mobile network providers to provide GPS or LTE/3G/4G/5G signal location of your phone on specific days,

 

2) The PPA decides to follow your STRAVA and rat you out.

 

3) SAPS decides to follow you on STRAVA.

 

4) You post your rides to STRAVA and available for everyone to see..

 

5) You have an accident and need to medi-evaced to hospital...

 

6) You have a puncture and need your wife to come and collect you ( youjust know ts going to be all over WHATSAPP faster than 5G.

 

7) Some other Snitching tactic..

 

8) you get stopped for not wearing a mask and they want your address details.

 

The biggest things to concern yourself with is covering your mouth and nose and make sure you're close to home by 9am then you'll be fine. And don;t do things that draws attention to yourself like wearing pink or short socks.

I already dont want to use a cellphone. This will just make it that much easier.

[DieselnDust]

I see phone booths making a coming back....

[Reme Le Hane]

I've disabled strava upload on Garmin express and probably won't reactivate it

 

The only reason I really still have os to check up on a friend who's touring Asia and switches phone numbers regularly

 

 

And also, I work in a "larny" estate as an electrician so have many documents in my car to prove that and say I'm essential blah blah blah, I get in my car and drive there every morning and ride between the estates since I know the area and some of the patrol guards. Main reason for this is about 400m from my house there was a violent hijacking of a cyclist two weeks ago with 2 more in the area ahortly after and I Don't feel like going to the hospital for a stab wound.

 

Luckily A quarter of the estate falls within my "death radius", should I feel like A dick?

 

BTW the amount of people wearing masks has come down significantly since the start of the exercise allowance

I got fed up with it long ago and now this stupid BS brag post about 50 fixes this year sticked to the top of my feed.

 

Only reason I still use it is its how my maintenance tracker tracks my millage, they don't integrate with garmin yet.

[Reme Le Hane]

Hub tiger?

Probike garage, hub tiger I am not a big fan of and I also have no inclination to attempt to migrate all my data from PB anyway.

[ChrisF]

I got fed up with it long ago and now this stupid BS brag post about 50 fixes this year sticked to the top of my feed.

 

Only reason I still use it is its how my maintenance tracker tracks my millage, they don't integrate with garmin yet.

 

So happens I use Strava purely to keep track of my total distance (pretty sure there must be better software\apps for this ...)

 

MTB is on the Garmin, for service purposes.

 

IDT only on Strava (never bothered to try and find it on Wahoo\Zwift)

 

Commuter on the Polar.

 

 

But all set to private, always been like that.

[Eddy Gordo]

I see phone booths making a coming back....

In america the payphone is still highly utlised.

[Frosty]

Slept in, yesterday morning, so missed my early morning run - only to be woken by a series of "we have to consider short time at work" Whatsapp messages. I was also the only one present at a scheduled 10:00 Teams meeting (for work I completed at 22:00 the night before).

 

To vent my frustration, I did the Alpe de Zwift in the afternoon - felt good after the 1:45 ride, even though it was indoors. Was thinking, "I could easily do this 8 times... everesting".

 

[Albatross]

Saw a bunch of youngsters heading to the beach for a pre dawn sneaky surf yesterday morning, I briefly considered reporting them but realised I was outside my POT

[MORNE]

I see phone booths making a coming back....

'dumb' phones already are.

[Duane_Bosch]

Saw a bunch of youngsters heading to the beach for a pre dawn sneaky surf yesterday morning, I briefly considered reporting them but realised I was outside my POT

Let them surf man. Jeez!

 

On Sunday the brave police were stopping housewives from walking their dogs on the beach here and at the same time an elderly couple was being mugged not 300m from the beach.

[Eugene Oppelt]

You know it's winter when you discover your socks are inside out at the end of the ride...

 

 

 

[PygaSchmyga]

I like how Trevor Manual put it - there is no rational reason for any of the regulations relating to the exercise window, and in fact, it potentially creates the very problem it is trying to solve by clustering everyone together.

 

So as far as I am concerned, to hell with it.  They can take their 5km radium and stick it where the sun don't shine, and I salute all the other riders who are clearly doing the same.  For the "citizens" who are now going to have righteous indignation, go for it, I'll read the crying when I am back from my ride.  This whole lockdown is an epic fail.

[Breezer]

I like how Trevor Manual put it - there is no rational reason for any of the regulations relating to the exercise window, and in fact, it potentially creates the very problem it is trying to solve by clustering everyone together.

 

So as far as I am concerned, to hell with it. They can take their 5km radium and stick it where the sun don't shine, and I salute all the other riders who are clearly doing the same. For the "citizens" who are now going to have righteous indignation, go for it, I'll read the crying when I am back from my ride. This whole lockdown is an epic fail.

I am also considering to go for a ride this afternoon. My business is not allowed to operate so I am stuck at home with my 6 year old. My wife is at work. I can not go for a ride and leave my boy alone and when my wife comes home I am not allowed to ride. This rules really sucks.

[buchanan]

I like how Trevor Manual put it - there is no rational reason for any of the regulations relating to the exercise window, and in fact, it potentially creates the very problem it is trying to solve by clustering everyone together.

 

So as far as I am concerned, to hell with it.  They can take their 5km radium and stick it where the sun don't shine, and I salute all the other riders who are clearly doing the same.  For the "citizens" who are now going to have righteous indignation, go for it, I'll read the crying when I am back from my ride.  This whole lockdown is an epic fail.

I went to a friend for a braai last night. Felt very liberating after 2 months of house arrest.

[Duane_Bosch]

I went to a friend for a braai last night. Felt very liberating after 2 months of house arrest.

Beers?

 

Did you sleep over? My concern is if a cop decides to pull you over at 10pm there's no plausible explanation for you to be on the road.