runners: please stay away from me

[Anonymous]

You are not going to get sick from someone passing you on the sidewalk. you will be fine as long as they don't cough on you or touch you in the split second it takes them to pass you. Most people in my area are trying to move out of each others way but in the cases where it doesn't happen, it is fine.

[Anonymous]

I was walking on the Rock Creek trail in Montgomery County on a nice day last week, and it was much more crowded than usual.

I was pretty much OK with it until a runner came up behind me huffing and puffing super loudly, and decided to pass within inches of me as I tried to move over right into a mud puddle. I'm sticking to saner neighborhood streets for exercise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PSA - when running last pedestrians, you need to give 6 feet of distance. If that means you go in the street, you go in the street.

Lol. Not a runner here but seriously! How about YOU go into the street and just walk there since we’re at it. Safer from corona.

[Anonymous]

Dog walkers need to cross the street too. Especially, if you know you don't have your dog has a personality issue. Some dogs just go straight to you. So annoying.

[Anonymous]

I'd leave a wider berth if you'd leave more room on the path. Two people and one dog don't need the entire width of the walking path. Please shorten that retractable leash while we're at it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are not going to get sick from someone passing you on the sidewalk. you will be fine as long as they don't cough on you or touch you in the split second it takes them to pass you. Most people in my area are trying to move out of each others way but in the cases where it doesn't happen, it is fine.

Maybe you’re right, but we cough involuntarily, why not try to be considerate to each other. 6 feet isn’t realistic on a path/trail/sidewalk, but we should try. That’s the guideline provided by the city and the national park service. We should all try.

[Anonymous]

Ugh. I took my dog for a run on the trails. She needs some type of vigorous exercise daily (or she’ll get crazy and destructive) and now the dog parks are closed. Traversing the trail was a nightmare. Most people were respectful, but there’s just so many of them! I did notice more walkers staggering if they were with somebody, and more people seemed to be sticking to the right instead of the middle of their lane. We’re learning!!

But still... whole families were walking in a clump even though the trail is supposed to be closed to groups. People were congregating at the dog park even though it was technically closed. I swear, people will not be satisfied until we have to call up the Guard to enforce these guidelines. .

[Anonymous]

Path, sidewalk., trail etiquette:

- Stay on the right. Do not cross the middle unless you are passing someone.
- Pass on the left
- If passing, look behind you
- Keep your dogs on the right - ideally on the grass on the side to give pedestrians more room. Not on a retractable leash that's like a big diagonal clotheslines
- do not "thread the needle" (especially true if you're a cyclist). That is, do not squeeze in the middle of two people going in opposite direction.
- if walking on a wide path, do not walk more than 2 abreast. No matter what, none of you should be walking past the middle of the path.
- pass with good clearance.
- NEVER just stop on a path. Never ever. It's like driving. You "pull over." You don't just stop to check your phone
- have good sense of your surroundings. This means even knowing when people are behind you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder what you crazy people were like before. Were you always this hyper anxious? If you think a person with the lung strength to maintain that level of cardio passing you for a tiny fraction of a second in the open air will make you sick from 3-4feet away, what were you like before? Do you even remember?

this. people have lost their damn minds. The Corona virus is not a flea that can jump on you. The person needs to be sick and actually cough with enough force to propel the droplets onto. So if there is a hacking jogger who turns and coughs in your direction, then maybe you can have something to be anxious about. JEE ZUS. Take a chill pill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder what you crazy people were like before. Were you always this hyper anxious? If you think a person with the lung strength to maintain that level of cardio passing you for a tiny fraction of a second in the open air will make you sick from 3-4feet away, what were you like before? Do you even remember?

this. people have lost their damn minds. The Corona virus is not a flea that can jump on you. The person needs to be sick and actually cough with enough force to propel the droplets onto. So if there is a hacking jogger who turns and coughs in your direction, then maybe you can have something to be anxious about. JEE ZUS. Take a chill pill.

No, moron, that's part of why it's so contagious. Do some basic research before you share your ignorance with the masses.

[Anonymous]

The craziest thing to me is the people that just stop on the trail to mess with their phone. WTH?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder what you crazy people were like before. Were you always this hyper anxious? If you think a person with the lung strength to maintain that level of cardio passing you for a tiny fraction of a second in the open air will make you sick from 3-4feet away, what were you like before? Do you even remember?

this. people have lost their damn minds. The Corona virus is not a flea that can jump on you. The person needs to be sick and actually cough with enough force to propel the droplets onto. So if there is a hacking jogger who turns and coughs in your direction, then maybe you can have something to be anxious about. JEE ZUS. Take a chill pill.

No, moron, that's part of why it's so contagious. Do some basic research before you share your ignorance with the masses.

Seriously, have people still not heard the news -- some people have the virus and are ASYMPTOMATIC. That means they have NO SYMPTOMS, yet they are infected and can infect others.

[Anonymous]

walkers: please stay six feet away from me. signed, runner

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Path, sidewalk., trail etiquette:

- Stay on the right. Do not cross the middle unless you are passing someone.
- Pass on the left
- If passing, look behind you
- Keep your dogs on the right - ideally on the grass on the side to give pedestrians more room. Not on a retractable leash that's like a big diagonal clotheslines
- do not "thread the needle" (especially true if you're a cyclist). That is, do not squeeze in the middle of two people going in opposite direction.
- if walking on a wide path, do not walk more than 2 abreast. No matter what, none of you should be walking past the middle of the path.
- pass with good clearance.
- NEVER just stop on a path. Never ever. It's like driving. You "pull over." You don't just stop to check your phone
- have good sense of your surroundings. This means even knowing when people are behind you.

AMEN! There are so many newbies on the trail who don't know these basic guidelines.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Path, sidewalk., trail etiquette:

- Stay on the right. Do not cross the middle unless you are passing someone.
- Pass on the left
- If passing, look behind you
- Keep your dogs on the right - ideally on the grass on the side to give pedestrians more room. Not on a retractable leash that's like a big diagonal clotheslines
- do not "thread the needle" (especially true if you're a cyclist). That is, do not squeeze in the middle of two people going in opposite direction.
- if walking on a wide path, do not walk more than 2 abreast. No matter what, none of you should be walking past the middle of the path.
- pass with good clearance.
- NEVER just stop on a path. Never ever. It's like driving. You "pull over." You don't just stop to check your phone
- have good sense of your surroundings. This means even knowing when people are behind you.

if the trail is that crowded GO HOME. it’s too crowded.
AMEN! There are so many newbies on the trail who don't know these basic guidelines.