Exercise

[Bryn]

Aren't there said to be problems with group running events, what with the amount of moisture exhaled with running - unless (I guess) social distancing is strictly observed, even if that may necessitate straying onto possibly dangerous roads? When runners come towards me I always try and get across to the other side of the road to avoid them; it's infuriating when they come up from behind and physically brush me in passing.

I quite agree. In my recent experience when out walking, many solo runners I encounter act as if it's up to walkers to get out of their way. I'm considering taking up nordic walking poles and holding them out either side of me as such runners approach to make sure then take a wide berth.

[teamsaint]

Aren't there said to be problems with group running events, what with the amount of moisture exhaled with running - unless (I guess) social distancing is strictly observed, even if that may necessitate straying onto possibly dangerous roads? When runners come towards me I always try and get across to the other side of the road to avoid them; it's infuriating when they come up from behind and physically brush me in passing.

I doubt very much if there is any solid evidence about the risk of exhaled moisture from groups of runners. I certainly haven't been able to find any. And all the evidence seems to be that transmission outdoors is pretty unlikely, if any kind of distancing is involved.

As for badly behaved runners, well there are people who behave badly in all kinds of groups. Concert goers, football fans, library users, runners, walkers with nordic poles, car drivers, cyclists, politicians, government scientific advisers etc etc.

[antongould]

I quite agree. In my recent experience when out walking, many solo runners I encounter act as if it's up to walkers to get out of their way. I'm considering taking up nordic walking poles and holding them out either side of me as such runners approach to make sure then take a wide berth.

This is a obviously a Southern problem as I have never encountered it walking round the pit heaps .... it has been said that manners start at Selby ......

[Bryn]

This is a obviously a Southern problem as I have never encountered it walking round the pit heaps .... it has been said that manners start at Selby ......

This could be the case, though more specifically the 'home counties' perhaps. The furthest north I have ever lived is Bolton, where it was more quarries, borrow pits and Winter Hill, and I did indeed find folk to display good manners, as a rule. That's not to say that all in the South-East behave thus badly.

[antongould]

This could be the case, though more specifically the 'home counties' perhaps. The furthest north I have ever lived is Bolton, where it was more quarries, borrow pits and Winter Hill, and I did indeed find folk to display good manners, as a rule. That's not to say that all in the South-East behave thus badly.

[Serial_Apologist]

This is a obviously a Southern problem as I have never encountered it walking round the pit heaps .... it has been said that manners start at Selby ......

You've got more space, up there!

[antongould]

You've got more space, up there!

Good point well made .....

[DracoM]

I regularly walk a mile or two late at night on streets / tracks.
That way, I walk in night-time moon / stars, rare streetlights, dark pretty well traffic-less roads, entirely maskless, no-one around to meet / chat to.

[jayne lee wilson]

I regularly walk a mile or two late at night on streets / tracks.
That way, I walk in night-time moon / stars, rare streetlights, dark pretty well traffic-less roads, entirely maskless, no-one around to meet / chat to.

I sometimes take to the streets in the Winter, when the evening comes too soon and I've not got out to the woods before dusk...a strangely calming atmosphere of isolation, and the hope of meeting an unknown Cat....

[Bryn]

I sometimes take to the streets in the Winter, when the evening comes too soon and I've not got out to the woods before dusk...a strangely calming atmosphere of isolation, and the hope of meeting an unknown Cat....

I like to walk the local woods by night. However, of late I find I'm encountering more and more others doing likewise but using torches to light their way and, in consequence, disrupt my, and deny their own, night-vision.

[DracoM]

And if you DO use such massively blinding lights - and they are blinding - you do blind others ahead, BUT make yourself very vulnerable from behind. It blinds the USER as well! Weird.

[Rjw]

Share nicely¡

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

When running along roads, I do try to be considerate to pedestrians, by giving them a wide berth. That said, pedestrians generally scatter when I’m tearing silvered sunglasses, possibly be cause they think I can’t see them.

The real dangers to fellow pedestrians are parked cars and pathological mobility scooter drivers.

[teamsaint]

This , from the communications director at parkrun, is an interesting read, about negative messages around exercise.

https://blog.parkrun.com/uk/2020/12/09/why-we-should-never-have-to-justify-going-for-a-run-2/

[Bryn]

This , from the communications director at parkrun, is an interesting read, about negative messages around exercise.

https://blog.parkrun.com/uk/2020/12/...g-for-a-run-2/

Nothing like a bit of religion at Christmas.