Daily walk ?

DH are going for long walks at night after a day of us both working flat out from home - it’s great to get some fresh air and exercise, the place is deserted and it’s lovely to reconnect with each other after a gruelling day work wise and being cooped up with the DC.

DD is a swimmer, swimming 5 times a week, about a mile each time. She is now working from home and all the swimming pools are shut, so much against her will, she has started going for walks, something she has never enjoyed.

We are now being inundated with pictures of the views and fields she has discovered close to her home that she never realised were there. I love the countryside and often talk about everything I see round my village. She is now beginning to sound a bit like me, although I have been wise eough not to say so.

I walk every afternoon, about 4 miles but encounter very few people. On the other hand I don’t go to the shops every day like a lot of people seem to, and if I do need the odd thing I combine it with my walk. I go late afternoon so that when I get home, washed changed it is time for wine!

I started having a walk for the first few days now just can't be bothered, spent most of the day online trying to get a shopping slot and trying to get a volunteer to seek my mother's shopping. Desperate for a sugar fix I made a cake and filled it with chocolate butter icing I then ate most of it. Looking for my shopping tomorrow to get some chocolate. I go to bed at 9pm and up at 9am, spend most of my time I'm my Hamas but no one cares, no one sees me so why not. I should go for a walk but I've got no motivation or energy. I don't want to retire if this is what its like

It's definitely beneficial to go for a walk I think. Provided we
keep to the rules. It's good for us physically and mentally.
I'm lucky to live in the countryside. I've got woods and a lake nearby.
Anyway, if I don't keep moving my back would seize up, so I'm told.
So I really would recommend you go out, if you can, Sheena.

Im thinking about it. If I do go a walk it will just be around the street and back.

We walk our dogs three times a day but not together. It's important we all get fresh air and exercise. We live out in the country so it's much easier than if we lived in a city.

I don't walk around where I live, but I do have a walk around at my place of work (sheltered housing scheme). The residents each have their own bungalow, and as I'm not actually going into their properties whilst all this is going on, I've been knocking on doors, asking how they are. Some of them have been in their gardens, so I've chatted with them over the fence.

We were told to go out once daily, obviously to limit the number of people we meet. I don’t think this is relevant in the country. I’m walking my dog twice every day because she needs that. Going up the road I might see a couple of people and out in the fields we can walk far apart. I haven’t been within 3m of anyone for a fortnight.

Why?

Walking every day, quiet here but it is rural. People are keeping distance but managing a greeting.

I walk every day about 45 mins there are certainly more people about now I change my route between the park and footpaths every day.

We live two minutes from a fairly isolated beach and there are lovely paths to walk where we hardly see anyone. We've been going out mid morning for about 40 minutes, discovering paths and areas we haven't been along before. We live in a flat without a balcony so it's lovely to get out in the fresh, sometimes very bracing , air.

30 minutes round the block with DH and doggy every day.
We have woods nearby so always see a few joggers. We do miss our walks in the woods but for now 30 minutes is fine.

Monica, are you on CBD oil or maybe special cookies?

We’re going out almost every day to walk. I’m in a village with limited pavements but at least with the reduction in traffic it is safer to keep going along the road itself now.

I saw more than half a dozen others walking today - normally you wouldn’t see a soul. Luckily, there’s plenty of space for everyone so we’ve chatted at a safe distance to folk we’ve never set eyes on before.

I go for a walk every day just in a big loop around my housing development . I have a back problem so can’t walk for a long time and it’s easy to get back to the flat this way but is pretty boring. The children and grandchildren are going for a longer walk or bike ride every day

My daily walk has become positively convivial, I see so many people, not enough to compromise social distancing rules, but more than I usually see and I am no longer the only one not tied to a dog. We all greet each other and sometimes have a chat, but always keeping generous distances.

We front onto a very popular path for walkers and during the day we see lots of families passing by and again many without dogs. We are not an accredited beauty spot, so no outsiders, just villagers, many of them from the new estates built recently, exploring the richness of local footpaths, which can be nothing but good.

I go out as early as I can and hardly see anyone. Just the occasional jogger.I don't think I would stay sane if I didn't get out for a change of scenery every day.

I go out for a walk locally every day. unless it's raining, though up to now the weather has been quite good. Like others, to keep the old joints moving.
I go as early as possible and there's hardly anyone about. The few people I do see say hello etc.
Husband went for a bike ride yesterday.

I need a short walk every day, it helps my hip and back ( falling to bits!) and we especially need the fresh air and exercise now.
Don’t meet many people in the village, perhaps we all walk at different times.?
When we do though, we all keep our distance but wave or say hello.

We really miss our walks. We usually go out every day but as DH is on the shielded list of patients he is not allowed out the front door. I am not going either just to try and limit his contact with others. We are really noticing the difference. We live in a flat so don’t even have a garden to walk in but at least we have a balcony ?

Most days I go for a half hour on the beach yes it’s definitely something we should be doing

I've been walking most days although too cold the last two days. I've found my way around nearby woodland that I hadn't explored in the year since I moved here. It's very relaxing and good to keep the spirits up.

We go out for a short walk each day, but yesterday combined a shop with a walk.