Running + Facemasks

[Anonymous]

If I pass out while running with a mask, can I assume that one of you anxious people is willing to help me?

Didn't think so.

I have literally seen NO runners using a mask. I have only seen three or four runners get too close on the trail, and I run four times a week for six miles at a time. The vast majority are practicing social distancing like I am. I happily run in the street to avoid people on the sidewalk. I hate sidewalks anyway. But asking me to stop running when there is no actual evidence that runners spread coronavirus is BS. I am already not going to work or sending my child to school or shopping normally or using the gym or eating out or seeing friends and family or doing ANY of my normal routine. I have changed everything. This is literally the last thing normal in my life. If you are so anxious you can't deal with someone passing you six feet away, you need to up your meds and stay home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you're running, you should wear a mask not only for your protection, but for the protection of others. Runners are far more likely to spread respiratory droplets over longer distances. It is just selfish for anyone to run without a mask because it isn't comfortable for them.

No chance that you are a runner

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you're running, you should wear a mask not only for your protection, but for the protection of others. Runners are far more likely to spread respiratory droplets over longer distances. It is just selfish for anyone to run without a mask because it isn't comfortable for them.

No chance that you are a runner

+100. No way that poster is a runner.

[Anonymous]

Runners are selfish unathletic losers with control issues

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t wear a mask when I’m running, if I come across a person I move to the opposite side of the road, it’s not complicated

+1, as is everyone else in my neighborhood

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Runners are selfish unathletic losers with control issues

You sound like you have trouble walking up 5 flights of stairs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you're running, you should wear a mask not only for your protection, but for the protection of others. Runners are far more likely to spread respiratory droplets over longer distances. It is just selfish for anyone to run without a mask because it isn't comfortable for them.

Can you point to one single case of a runner being some kind of super spreader? Because where TF is this absolutely crazy, utterly irrational demonization of runners coming from?

There's some trash science visualizations of cyclists and runners. One of the simplifying assumptions is that there is no wind. Another simplification not stated, is that runners are an infinite source of viral particles and at some fixed concentration. So, a relatively unrealistic model.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I pass out while running with a mask, can I assume that one of you anxious people is willing to help me?

Didn't think so.

I have literally seen NO runners using a mask. I have only seen three or four runners get too close on the trail, and I run four times a week for six miles at a time. The vast majority are practicing social distancing like I am. I happily run in the street to avoid people on the sidewalk. I hate sidewalks anyway. But asking me to stop running when there is no actual evidence that runners spread coronavirus is BS. I am already not going to work or sending my child to school or shopping normally or using the gym or eating out or seeing friends and family or doing ANY of my normal routine. I have changed everything. This is literally the last thing normal in my life. If you are so anxious you can't deal with someone passing you six feet away, you need to up your meds and stay home.

LOL you pass out because you are wearing a mask? What a drama queen! Put on a mask run. We use to run in mopp gear level 4. Look it up. Putting on a mask and run is nothing. You are just too weak minded and a child.

[Anonymous]

Runners spread the virus much easier it’s proven fact

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Runners spread the virus much easier it’s proven fact

Nope. It’s not even close to a fact. Please learn the word fact.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Runners spread the virus much easier it’s proven fact

Do you have any science to back that claim up? And please, not that bunk Belgian-Dutch "study."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I pass out while running with a mask, can I assume that one of you anxious people is willing to help me?

Didn't think so.

I have literally seen NO runners using a mask. I have only seen three or four runners get too close on the trail, and I run four times a week for six miles at a time. The vast majority are practicing social distancing like I am. I happily run in the street to avoid people on the sidewalk. I hate sidewalks anyway. But asking me to stop running when there is no actual evidence that runners spread coronavirus is BS. I am already not going to work or sending my child to school or shopping normally or using the gym or eating out or seeing friends and family or doing ANY of my normal routine. I have changed everything. This is literally the last thing normal in my life. If you are so anxious you can't deal with someone passing you six feet away, you need to up your meds and stay home.

LOL you pass out because you are wearing a mask? What a drama queen! Put on a mask run. We use to run in mopp gear level 4. Look it up. Putting on a mask and run is nothing. You are just too weak minded and a child.

Avid runner and former Army soldier here. We never ran in gas masks for any serious length of time or speed, so stop telling stories. You never ran a PT test or anything close to it in mopp gear. I'm not going to run slowly and for short distances because people have an irrational fear of runners these days. I'm trying to stay in great shape because coronavirus isn't going away any time soon and the one thing that a person has control over to fight it off is FITNESS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I pass out while running with a mask, can I assume that one of you anxious people is willing to help me?

Didn't think so.

I have literally seen NO runners using a mask. I have only seen three or four runners get too close on the trail, and I run four times a week for six miles at a time. The vast majority are practicing social distancing like I am. I happily run in the street to avoid people on the sidewalk. I hate sidewalks anyway. But asking me to stop running when there is no actual evidence that runners spread coronavirus is BS. I am already not going to work or sending my child to school or shopping normally or using the gym or eating out or seeing friends and family or doing ANY of my normal routine. I have changed everything. This is literally the last thing normal in my life. If you are so anxious you can't deal with someone passing you six feet away, you need to up your meds and stay home.

I agree with you so much!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Runners spread the virus much easier it’s proven fact

Actually running and cardio might actually protect you so keep eating your chips and watching your netflix

https://news.virginia.edu/content/exercise-may-protect-against-deadly-covid-19-complication-research-suggests

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Runners are selfish unathletic losers with control issues

Does your belly shake like a bowl full of jelly, I bet it does