The rule here for exercise is that you are allowed out once a day for a maximum of an hour for exercise and can go no further than 1km as the crow flies from your property. It's difficult to get your head around what that actually means in some ways. In theory you can do a walk out 1km, then the circumference of a circle with radius 1km and then back 1km to get home (2πr + 2), which is about 8.28km - probably a bit far for walkers doing between 4 and 5kmph per hour, but not far enough for joggers, runners and cyclists. They would need to look at star shape patterns or get with the spirograph to see how far they could go.
The French government has made available a nice little tool to map where you can go in your daily perambulation. For me it looks like this:
There are some options, although the nicest means going about 20 meters outside my permitted zone. During lockdown in the Spring, I did say how lucky I felt to be out in the country, and I feel the same way now, but thinking about legal exercise options, I'm not sure those in the towns don't have it easier. If I lived in central Chinon, my allowed map would look like this:
That has a lot of options for different circuits and could make it easier to find routes that get you going further than about 3.5km, which is the maximum walk I've worked out for me so far (but I plan to find longer). The town has variety going for it (and a couple of steep hills).
Further out in the country than we are, and you are even more limited in terms of legal roaming, as I found when I tried a friend's place:
There's something to ponder over, on your Friday night!
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