To ask a man to move at parkrun

Yes. Walk-run helps build running, prevent injury, improve times, maintain fitness and all sorts of lovely things. Sprinting then stopping will make you feel terrible, doesn't do anything for your time, and honestly, probably means you won't become a consistent runner.

I am the world's slowest, shittest runner. But I don't <touches wood> get injured. Even though I'm old and was fat. And the reason is that I run slowly, then walk, then run slowly. I can run (slowly) a 10k pretty much tomorrow without walking if I had to. You feel much worse if you stop during runs. If you walk between running portions, you don't.

But the OP can learn the hard way. I'll helpfully shut up now

It’s fine to ask someone politely to move, so you can get past. Though I think I’d have waited for a gap rather than expect him to get his dog to move. Could come across as a little demanding.

How did he look at you? Pissed off or more threatening?

@MrsTerryPratchett Hence me helpfully saying she needs to sort her pacing

helpfully saying 😂😂

This is what I’m talking about. Pacing? It’s running around a park not the diamond league. Equally if someone’s on a go slow with a dog, just slow down till you can get past, even if it adds a few seconds to your “time”. PSA no one cares about your “time”. Why do people even care what anyone else is doing?

And FYI - I have a dog. I'd never bring my dog to Park Run.

@LameBorzoi She is if she is stopped on the path to catch her breath!
I agree ....... but was she stopped on the path or to the side??

Also, unless the dog is huge it really doesn't make much difference with the overtaking
a dog running alongside a runner obviously takes up more room on the path than just a solo runner

I know nothing about running.

However, I always assumed that the whole point of Park Run was to track/beat your time.

If I am correct then I'd be really pissed off to have my timings compromised by a dog.

Love parkrun, love dogs but really don't like dogs at parkrun tbh
Not the point of the thread but understand your issue op.

Hence me helpfully saying she needs to sort her pacing. I'm not saying she's a cow, but her pacing needs work. Sprinting then stopping is the worst of both worlds.

OP just have a look at couch to 5k or 10k.

Because she's stopped still on an obviously narrow path 🤷‍♀️

I’ve had and seen a couple of similar interactions on park runs. For something which is supposed to be a fun activity to get people into running there always seems to be someone doing something someone else doesn’t like and a weird trying-to-appear-nonchalant-but-at-the-same-time-try-hard-competitive vibe. I guess that’s just what people are like these days, or maybe what some runners are like in general.

She is if she is stopped on the path to catch her breath!

Also, unless the dog is huge it really doesn't make much difference with the overtaking

And PP said
So the reason you couldn’t get past him wasn’t just the dog

Which is correct. It wasn't just the dog. It was the runners coming back towards them.

@MrsTerryPratchett Because she ran past others then had to stop (not walk intervals - stop) to catch her breath. She'd be much better off doing a slower pace, or walk-run, rather than sprinting then stopping.

But she's not holding anyone else up or delaying other runners.

Parkruns are also about learning about what you can do / what you want to do /what you need to learn to do

Because she ran past others then had to stop (not walk intervals - stop) to catch her breath. She'd be much better off doing a slower pace, or walk-run, rather than sprinting then stopping.

@MrsTerryPratchett He was a bit of a tit but your pacing is alllllll wrong.

Why??

Is parkrun not about runners running at their own comfortable personal pace as opposed to racing against all the other participants??

@Jingleballs2 I mean, when you stopped you were probably causing an obstruction as well.

How exactly would OP have been causing an obstruction??

He was a bit of a tit but your pacing is alllllll wrong.

@MartinCrieffsLemon However, there were faster runners coming towards me.

OP says
if he hadn’t had a dog I would have been able to squeeze past.

You need to sort out your pacing.
If you needed to get past him but still had to stop to catch breath then that’s a pacing problem. Probably work on this rather than worry about his passive aggressive comment (which I would’ve been thinking also).

I mean, when you stopped you were probably causing an obstruction as well. He was as far over as he could be, you were being unreasonable

@brownbear201 so you are running in a park and he is also running in a park, albeit with his dog? yet apparently, park runners have all the rights to the park and you feel you have the right to bark at him? what would you have done if his dog had barked back at you?? even general members of the public get pissed off at parkrunners taking over the parks!!!

And also in the OP
However, there were faster runners coming towards me.

@HeddaGarbled So the reason you couldn’t get past him wasn’t just the dog but the faster runners coming towards you?

Perhaps read OP?

@brownbear201 As he had a dog I couldn’t get past him, if he hadn’t had a dog I would have been able to squeeze past.

I think it was OK for you to ask and it would have been OK for him to say no. But he was a dick for being passive aggressive when you asked and making a snide remark when he passed you.