AIBU to be fucked off at road marathons?

Not just marathons ...

They had a massive day long "Velo" in the West Midlands 2 years running, just before lockdown. Our little cul de sac was cut off for 12 hours - bad luck if you wanted to go anywhere.

Despite the protests (which the assorted councils ignored, claiming it was a "big success") they ran it a second year. This time a lot of affected residents put tacks and glass down and it really **ed up the event.

Then the organisers went bust.

The whole thing was shady from start to finish and despite a mountain of FOI requests, I have yet to see what benefit residents had for their sacrifice. Although I imagine a few councillors had some nice holidays.

So everyone should pay road tax then, not just car users.

One in 6 deaths in the uk is related to physical inactivity. If more people kept fit, we could save the nhs millions. We should be happy that people look after their own health as they are freeing up resources for those that need it.

Here's the thing, with the exception of motorways, roads are for everyone. Driver or not we all pay for them. So may be give us non car owners a go sometimes.

What's wrong with saying joggers? It always looks like a jog to me.

I don't know why you assume I'm not active just because I don't jog. There's other activities in existence.

It's all me me me these days isn't it? A once a year thing and you can't cope with it? Get some perspective. Please.

I just can't take drivers complaining about exercisers seriously. Prioritise the people getting off their arses to be healthy and not polluting the environment any day, in my opinion.

@DinosaurMunch

I was scrolling the thread with just one eye opened and read the beginning of your post as “I would be in favour of cat free day”

it woke me up straight away, you won’t be able to enforce this round here.
sorry for derailing the topic a bit

I don't mind once or twice a year with advance notice - I can plan to not need the car, or to park it elsewhere. But more than this gets tedious. The worst events are the ones where pedestrians can't cross the road. The last cycle event we had, we were trapped in our cul de sac on a weekday for pretty much the whole morning and couldn't get off our block by foot either as couldn't cross the road. And since our road wasn't "technically" being closed for the race, we didn't have notice before the barriers were put out ready the night before.

There are several rows mostly riding three or four abreast. So like a stream of several lorries driving bumper to bumper.

Drivers are the cause of the traffic fumes, fewer cars would help with that problem rather thsn asking people to exercise indoors

They would be harder to overtake if they were in single file, as you need to give one cyclist same space as a car anyway.

It's traffic every day of the week where I am. People are so very lazy. Walking and biking doesn't fuck up our lungs or cause premature death to others. A bit of inconvenience is good to make people think about doing things differently (not that all will!)

I'd imagine not seeing as she genuinely thought mass participation road marathons could be held on an athletics track. 🤣

It's such a snarky thing to use 'joggers' instead of 'runners'. Do you belittle other sports in a similar way? Says a lot more about you than the people getting off their backsides and being active.

Cheshire plain here - nice and flat so lots of bike events. Generally well organised with lots of Marshalls and signs. We have quite narrow lanes though so trying to get past a cyclist every 15 feet does require some patience!

We get cyclists, and they don't close roads or give notice. You'll just suddenly discover that you're going to be late to wherever you're going because there are hordes of lycra-clad bottoms wobbling all over the road, and you can't overtake as they're riding several abreast in a huge long clump. Did once find a load of runners on my dad's road though, who glared at me when I drove in and made them move to the pavement. Can't people just go to the gym? I would've thought it would be far healthier than breathing in road fumes - and better for the environment as it wouldn't cause cars to repeatedly dawdle then rev hard to overtake. Plus, it wouldn't inconvenience a load of other people.

I thought this thread was about annoyed car drivers

I know carers who cycle

I can see I've annoyed all the joggers 😆😆

A quick death from marathon running doesn't cost the NHS much at all. Certainly not compared to chronic obesity related illnesses.

(Especially as dying due to running a marathon is extremely rare)

Plenty of roads were built before cars - such entitlement

I know how dare the council not tell us and the whole of our town that after a summer of road closures for racing they closing the two roads for repairs....we an old town and yesterday the ambulance couldn't get through the queues of traffic for the road works. I have elderly patients on my road who not had carers visit or visit late due to this. The mp is on the case. Not me asking but alot of others...

Yes it's lovely - peace and safety and fresh air! How cities could be if cars didn't exist

Overall, I think people who do sport are healthier than those who don't.