To the group of runners on South Park Street around 7pm on Thursday, Jan. 14: just because I don’t wear an over-priced nylon outfit doesn’t mean I don’t deserve room on the sidewalk. As it happens, I was on the tail-end of a 90-minute power-walk. The first 80 minutes were great – fresh air, happy thoughts, unwinding after a difficult day at work. The last 10 minutes were spent hobbling back home after your refusal to share the sidewalk forced me to step into a big hole (it was either that or fall completely off that little bridge at the Brenton Place construction site). If you want people to respect the fact that you’re fit and healthy, then learn to share the streets; otherwise, all you end up doing is pissing people off and causing them unnecessary injury. You won’t die by going in single-file for a whole 10 seconds, and you’re not better than anyone else. SO MOVE OVER. And oh yes, thanks for ruining my night, and preventing me from making it to the gym (or anywhere else) tomorrow because my ankle’s too swollen.
–She-who-shares-sidewalks-in-the-south-end
This article appears in Jan 14-20, 2010.
Wimp.
Run Forset RUN !!!!
ah yes, the speed-o walker/jogger/idoits. don’t you just wish mugging was legal in some cases. goddamn i love them, when they come crushing at me while i’m on foot, i just accidently get in their way, and fuck up their rhythem/timing/whatever. serves you right, you high feeling fuckheads. let’s all play block the road now.
Just don’t get out of their way for fuck sakes! Serously…stand up for yourself, no one else is going to. I seriously doubt the runners thought twice about it, likely because they hadn’t thought about it in the moment (no real intention to force you off the sidewalk). If you are going to go jumping out of the way than what would be the point of them going single file after you jumped out of the way? Give them a reason to move the fuck over, by not getting out of the way…they will move.
Well said Der !!
Unless you were a 400 pound blob taking up the whole damn sidewalk, I could see this happening. From your perspective however, I instead call wimp. Try being a cyclist for a day? Hmmm???
“Try being a cyclist for a day?”
Muahahahah, very true D.
Fuck those running rodents – it would be candlepin bowling time.
It’s not like they’re carrying machetes to clear the path before them–if you don’t move, they will.
How The Running Room can perpetuate/endorse(by endorse, I am suggesting that the owners may have taken steps or given talks to disuade their customers from being assholes and maybe keep the groups smaller) this behavior and still be in business is a testament to the amount of people who are actually willing to dump money into this lifestyle.
There is nothing wrong with running, nor is there anything inherently wrong with runners in general…but; every group or demographic has their assholes. We have Kay.
watch out der, she’s back, with a vengence, omfj. i’m scared, hold me girls.
there isn’t much space on that little boardwalk they created… I frequently have to turn sideways so that others can pass by without slamming into my shoulder.
They could have made it a little wider… and more level for that matter. why the hell does it resemble the upper clements rollercoaster?