You really can't argue against that.
Audax is more than just exercise. If you don't see that then there's going to be little point continuing this discussion.
(Anyway, this is just going over the same old ground from much earlier in this thread. It wasn't resolved then either. It all became a bit of a moot point when AUK decided to suspend validations anyway.)
Everything is "more than just exercise". Jogging is "more than just exercise", it's jogging. Weightlifting is "more than just exercise", it's weightlifting.
I take it you're you missing the point on purpose.
To make it clear:-
Riding your bike is exercise.
Riding your bike in order to collect proof of passage and ultimately seek AUK validation takes it into the "more than just exercise" bracket IMHO (I'm happy for you to disagree).
As I said before. I'm not sure everyone (there might be one or two) here would continue to ride 200km+ rides every month if AUK validation was not available for such rides. Therefore AUK validation offers some form of encouragement for those people to do those rides.
No-one is suggesting people don't exercise, although they should look at the
guidance and decide for themselves what is considered suitable/acceptable.
If you're allowed to go out shopping but that comes with the caveat of "shopping for basic necessities, for example food and medicine, which should be as infrequent as possible". Do you really think that unlimited exercise is in the same free bracket?
If the guidance says "You should minimise time spent outside your home..." does that really mean that exercise is really unlimited?
If the guidance says "You should avoid travelling in or out of your local area, and you should look to reduce the number of journeys you make." you still really take that to mean that exercise is really unlimited?
Sure, people need to exercise but, as I've said before, people don't
NEED to get AUK validation for rides. By all means do whatever level of exercise you think is necessary but the general concept of a lockdown is for people to do enough exercise to keep healthy (both physically and mentally). It's not a carte blanche to go to town on things. This isn't the time to selfishly try and maintain some way above average level of fitness (unless you can do that from the safety of your turbo in your own home).
The legislation/guidance will never be specific about this because extreme levels of exercise like this is such an absolute niche that they'd never think they would do.
You've made it abundantly clear on here already that you want everything to stop forever.
Sorry, what? Where exactly did I say that? I've said, repeatedly, something similar to the above.