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the way AUK is interpreting the latest Covid guidelines means any future 200s (for the moment, anyway) I do have to stay within London
Yeah... interesting interpretation. This is their Tier 4 guidance which you will have seen but I'm sharing for the benefit of others:
Tier 4: 2 riders per event route per day. Maximum distance 200km. The whole route must be contained within the original Tier 4 area. (Note: as per published Government guidance, the 32 London Boroughs and the City of London comprise one area for tiering purposes and the same will apply to the Tier 4 area of Essex and the Tier 4 area of Surrey).
Not sure I agree with their interpretation, which nobody else seems to be using. If my club used their interpretation it would mean our members couldn't ride into Essex, which is 7 miles away.
Which would be a bit daft for a road club.
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To be fair, I don't know how else they can be interpreted - Gov.UK guidelines are very specific to stop people moving between areas:
"Travelling within a Tier 4 area
If you live in a Tier 4 area, you must not leave your home unless you have a reasonable excuse (for example, for work or education purposes). If you need to travel you should stay local – meaning avoiding travelling outside of your village, town or the part of a city where you live – and look to reduce the number of journeys you make overall. The list of reasons you can leave your home and area include, but are not limited to...outdoor recreation or exercise. This should be done locally wherever possible, but you can travel a short distance within your Tier 4 area to do so if necessary (for example, to access an open space)Travelling out of a Tier 4 area
You must stay at home and not leave your Tier 4 area, other than for legally permitted reasons such as:travel to work where you cannot work from home
travel to education and for caring responsibilities
visit or stay overnight with people in your support bubble, or your childcare bubble for childcare purposes
attend hospital, GP and other medical appointments or visits where you have had an accident or are concerned about your health
to provide emergency assistance, and to avoid injury or illness, or to escape a risk of harm (such as domestic abuse)" -
If my club used their interpretation it would mean our members couldn't ride into Essex, which is 7 miles away.
There's the tiniest of grey areas in that exercise and travel have been treated separately in every version of the guidance, and it says exercise is unlimited but you must not travel outside your area.
British Cycling says those in Tier 4 "should not leave their areas to take part in cycling activities or events", which is marvellously useless - does that mean strapping a bike to your Range Rover or riding it?
OTOH the actual underlying law (which is different from the guidance) says that all of the Tier 4 council territories are "the Tier 4 area", as if there's only one such area.
Anyway, let's hope riding any sort of velocipede gets banned from 8 pm tonight, rendering all of this moot.
dsalmon
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I'm eight months into my 3rd RRtY but the way AUK is interpreting the latest Covid guidelines means any future 200s (for the moment, anyway) I do have to stay within London. I've seen chat of the London Spiral ride in the cycling in corona times thread, and I have a couple of pals who did a London boroughs 200 on new years day, but fuck me, their report of it sounded grim.
Nevermind, eh.