AIBU to be fucked off at road marathons?

It's most weekends in my town between the cycling races and running ....

Yes. Yanbu. Really effecting my town now. ..my literally have about two roads and both are used by organisers for cycling races and runner events....we all stuck in our town until 2pm on a sat or sun alot of the summer

OMG it’s once a year!! It might do you good to join in, it’s great for lowering stress levels ;)

So, it's ok to inconvenience a whole city?
How selfish.

YABU. We have a motoring rally that takes place right past our house for a whole weekend every year. We can't even leave on foot (there's no pavement but even if there was, it'd be too dangerous with cars racing past on what is normally a 20mph road).

We can get in/out before 8am, after 6pm and for a brief half hour when they stop for lunch.

It's annoying, but it's one weekend of the year, we know it's coming and we plan around it. We, like everyone else including you OP, occasionally partake in things that inconvenience others (Any kind of pop-up event, festivals, sports events etc etc) so find it easiest jus to live and let live.

And to those that say 'can't they just do laps of the park', No. for a marathon with hundreds or participants you'd need a fucking enormous park to have space for 26 miles worth of laps. Don't be absurd.

Being fit doesn't result in less illnesses and health problems? What a bonkers thing to say 😂

I was 30mins late for a hospital appt because of the traffic around one of these on a Sunday. I cannot fathom why you'd close all the road around a hospital? Fucking stupid Wigan Council.

Omg.. I feel your pain. It was the Chester marathon on Sunday. Bloody nightmare!

Because no one would enter if it was laps of a park! You’d need to do a lot of laps or have a very big to do a half or marathon. 🙄

But WHY?! Why purposely annoy people, for no reason? It's bizarre!

Yep, I agree (and I love long distance running). I think road marathons are mad anyway, all that pounding on concrete can't be good for knees/hips - I don't get why more people don't prefer trails/fell running. Yes, it takes a lot longer to cover the same distance, but at least you're not wrecking your joint cartilage!

I love running, but knowing how much it annoys people makes me want to sign up for every city marathon there is 🤗

It's essential to close roads to carry out repairs. Not for these races.
If there's a market, it closes one side road, not the whole route into the city centre. There are loads of places to run and cycle. Why inconvenience so many for a few people to have a race?.

YANBU. The roads round here were closed for a big bike race the other weekend, but they couldn't confirm the timings of when they were open and closed. It's all rural there's not a lot of options for other routes.

You can be fit and still have high cholesterol, get heart attacks. It doesn't really save NHS loads of money.

Roads get closed for all kinds of reasons besides running races
Resurfacing, gas works, street parties, carnivals, fun fairs, food festivals etc (or - more rarely - crime scenes)

As an aside,local land owners near my home town refused permission for an annual charity race to be held on their land, so it was re-routed to laps of a field. It was pretty dull but would have inconvenienced fewer people

Most likely not the same paying.

Ah is running/runners going to be the new hate for MN ers'? had enough of cyclists have we?

Never read so much twaddle, once the vast bulk of runners have come down a road, people can cross easily on foot, max a road will be closed for is an hour or two, if there is no alternative and TRO's can only be issued with input from Police, Councils etc etc,they would have put signs on lamp posts around the area and on community FB groups too.

Plus as this Marathon (supposedly) took place 2 months ago, why post about it now?

I call BS.

Wider point, a recent 100km cycle ride early on a Sunday morning raised over £8k for our local Hospice, shall i tell them to "fuck off" you cant have this money because some idiot on MN doesn't like being held up on their way to the garden centre?

Meanwhile, it has been decided its "too expensive" to shut half a mile of road for half an hour so that the Scouts etc can walk from the War Memorial to the Cemetery on Remembrance Sunday.

It's the same where I live. Very annoying. It's more than once a year! Impossible to get into the city centre, and any of the main roads around. Plus the litter is awful, discarded drinks bottles everywhere.
I've no idea why they do it. No point.

Where the hell so you live? These are normal annual events!

Marathons, half marathons and cycling races regularly close the roads here. It is troublesome and does not interest me but the world would also be sad without any events. The events don't trash the area.

We have lots of road shutdowns, violence, vandalism and police at high profile football matches at the locall stadium. That is super unsafe and much worse.

You can't just run around a park. One race I did had 15,000 participants. How are you going to fit them all running round and round in a park? My local park run is a 3lap 5k. You'd be standing end to end.
It's only once or twice a year. And it's usually on a Sunday to cause least disruption.

Back when my knees let me do such things, I'm sure the races used to start at 8am? So that it wasn't a while day thing. (I only did Halfs, roads started reopening by 10am).

Get in touch with whoever gives permission for roads to close.
Register your protest
Ask for better communication from then regarding closures