runners: please stay away from me

[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.

I want to make this law in Rock Creek. On placards everywhere.

[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.

F*ck you.

YOU go in the street.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

F*ck you.

YOU go in the street.

Nope. The person with the most crazy should move.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

F*ck you.

YOU go in the street.

Nope. The person with the most crazy should move.

DP. I would definitely say that the royally anxious person has the most crazy. I think most people would.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

F*ck you.

YOU go in the street.

Let’s all split the difference and try to give 3 feet? We all have a responsibility to keep out distance. The onus isn’t on one person depending on it they’re running or walking. It’s on every person who goes into a public space. This whole thing is so stressful and it’s making us angrier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

F*ck you.

YOU go in the street.

Nope. The person with the most crazy should move.

DP. I would definitely say that the royally anxious person has the most crazy. I think most people would.

My assessment that someone repeatedly invading the personal space of others for their own convenience is an asshole has nothing to do with anxiety - I'm not at high personal risk. But you can't possibly know that that's true of every person whose space you've invading (again) for your convenience. TLDR: 0% my personal anxiety, 100% you're behaving like a dick. Trails do not belong to you. If you want to run somewhere you can run at any speed without needing to worry about others, choose any regular neighborhood sidewalk.

Big groups of clueless wandering pedestrians are also a pet peeve of mine, as are pairs who block the whole land and don't leave passing space. But I don't think shoving them out of the way is appropriate to teach them a lesson, as I've seen defended here. Public trails aren't yours because you're healthy and used them before - that line of thinking is just...wow.

[Anonymous]

Pairs who run beside each other and do not fall back single file when someone is coming the opposite way on trails are my new pet peeve. Come on, guys, you’re going to get us all locked inside with no where to go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PSA, how about you move?

PSA the 1/100th of a second a person with lungs robust enough to run takes to pass, will not get you sick.

PSA if you have this much irrational anxiety, please never leave home. Ever.

Oh well arent you impressive. You pass people at 1/100th of a second?

Your incredible passing SPEED does not mean mouth spray cant land on something. Good God.

[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.

I want to make this law in Rock Creek. On placards everywhere.

Yes, please. I thought of this thread while running this morning in Rock Creek, on the path along Beach Drive. On my way out, I was approaching two people walking a dog on a retractable leash. They were blocking the entire path, which is probably about eight feet wide. When I was about 10 feet back, I called out, "runner on your left," and they moved just enough for me to pass. I saw them again on my return run, so this time I was facing them and they saw me coming, and they didn't move at all. I ran onto the grass, but come on. It's really, really not that hard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PSA, how about you move?

PSA the 1/100th of a second a person with lungs robust enough to run takes to pass, will not get you sick.

PSA if you have this much irrational anxiety, please never leave home. Ever.

Oh well arent you impressive. You pass people at 1/100th of a second?

Your incredible passing SPEED does not mean mouth spray cant land on something. Good God.

It must be exhausting living in your petrified head.

The chance of you getting Covid 19 from someone running past you, is about the same as driving with your window open - behind someone driving with their window open.

For your own mental health, please just stay home.

[Anonymous]

Just cough when a runner is approaching and they’ll go around you with 6+ feet distance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a hierarchy of who should move.

Baby strollers and wheelchairs always get to stay on the sidewalk. I'd stay the stroller probably goes off road if they meet a wheelchair since it is being pushed by an able bodied adult.

Walkers next, joggers have to go around walkers. Bikers shouldn't be on the sidewalk, but little bikers, like 6 years and under, get precedence over walkers and joggers because they can't control themselves fully. Bikers aged 7-10 should usually go around walkers, maybe get precedence, depends upon the skill of the biker. Adult bikers should GET OFF THE SIDEWALK.

Anybody going faster and coming up from behind is responsible for going around the slower person.

Wheelchairs that are speeding included, but I usually see the speeding wheelcharis in the street.

The elderly walkers (cane or no cane) also get precedence over all other walkers and bikers, although the 3-5 year olds need to be taught to defer to them.

Anybody with a dog should move out of the way as a courtesy.

All that said, when somebody goes by me I just hold my breath because I don't want to smell them anyway, Covid-19 or not.

+1. I Agree with your hierarchy