To ask a man to move at parkrun

You were wrong to ask him to move and when running, it’s difficult and distracting to have to suddenly alter your pace/move aside because someone else demands it, especially with a dog. If you want a quiet run with no dogs and no crowds to impede your progress, parkrun is probably not for you.

You were both being u .

Oh it's not is it?? I hate reverses

Better for OP but he was enjoying his dog run at his own pace

I do parkrun most weeks and my local is a two lap affair. We have all manner of dogs, prams, young children etc. The paths are generally a few meters wide and there is no out and back but there is a roughly 200m section each lap where it is single file as the path is very narrow with bushes on each side. Everyone just goes single file and accepts it. I can’t imagine having a go at someone to get out of my way, man, woman, dog, pram whatever. As others have said it’s parkrun not the Olympic trials. If you’ve gone huffing past and then stopped for a breather whilst being an arse then you deserve a bit of a snide comment in my view.

Hahahahahahaah. Pushing past and then having to stop bc you can’t breathe. Brilliant.

That's pretty standard for parkrun though. Maybe it's just my local one where there are always slower patches and you just have to suck it up or travel to a course which is more suited to you.

He was forcing you to run either at just under the pace you were comfortable at, or then, perhaps a little over the pace (hence you pulling over for a breather)

It would have been better for him to pull over for 2 seconds and let you past so you could run at your pace, rather than imposing his on you.

This. It's okay to want to beat your time but the first aim of park run is to get everyone, young and old, fit and unfit out there running together. You looked totally dickish forcing him out of the way and then having to stop..

If you want to be ultra competitive join a running club.

For anti-social people perhaps. Some of us actually enjoy being with around others. Best bit of our Parkrun is the friends we've made there, and all catching up for coffee afterwards.

Edit: Ignore me, I didn't realise the dog was running parkrun (not allowed at ours)

Cringing for you - asking rudely for someone to move out the way at Parkrun and then stopping to catch your breath. It’s Parkrun ffs

I’d normally agree with this but the OP wasn’t a faster runner given she later pulled over to catch her breath.

I’ll be honest, if he had come on asking if he was bu to be annoyed I’d have said he wasn’t just because he was doing everything he could to not be in people’s way and you were still expecting precedence

I wish all precious runners would stay home

I made the silly mistake of running with my dog when there was a park run-I wasn’t part of the park run, I was just running in my dog when I realised half an hour later there was a park run. I run there every everyday.
Park runners don’t own the park. I think you should have waited along the narrow path, especially as the dog was on a short lead.

what did you expect him to do?

Er, leave his precious mutt at home for an hour?

OP you were impatient and he was grumpy.

You were rude in my opinion and could have waited. You are not in a paid race it's Park Run where all abilities are welcome. Plus people are still entitled to use the Park Run routes with their dog, kids etc. You can't just ask people to budge over. You need to learn patience and just join competitive races on a designated route if you don't like to be patient. I used to regularly encounter people like you at narrow places when I used to run with my son at Park Run in his buggy. I got pushed and shoved and one woman even fell over the buggy trying to get through a narrow bit blaming me. I just back up and carried on while she whinged over a graze. My advice is that Park Run is not for you.

YABU. You should have only asked the man with dog to move if you knew you could maintain a faster (or at least keep moving) for rest of the run. If you are running and stopping then you shouldn’t be asking anyone to move on a parkrun.

You were rude to not be more patient. To be honest the dog is irrelevant. The path was narrow, it was difficult to get past. So you wait till you get to a wider bit. 🤷‍♀️.

Though the main unreasonableness is the park run organisers plotting a route on a narrow path. Which I assume is a narrow public footpath, what if a non parkrunner was walking a dog there?

Our local park run has a really narrow section for half a mile and it’s a there and back route so runners in both directions. The first day that park run started there I’d made the mistake of being there dog walking. I had no idea it was now park run territory. It was quite a scary experience with fences and ditches meaning there was only a thin strip of grass either side of the path. I walked on that with my dog on a lead and people still tripped over my dog and kicked my dog!

I doubt you will be back to comment OP but … yeah that was quite embarrassing wasn’t it? Not the question about getting past if put politely, but then having to stop and he and his dog overtaking you again. 🤣 I’m a swimmer, if I overtook someone and then they overtook me back I’d cringe 😬 😀
I try not to overtake, we all just work around each other understanding everyone is different.

Entitled runner meets entitled runner.

I dislike dogs at parkrun but I also dislike the runners who can’t pace themselves and sprint past me and then have to stop or walk to catch their breath, meaning I have to keep navigating around them. So you’re both unreasonable in my opinion!

Oh how embarrassing, pushing your way past and then being reovertaken 🫠

It is Park Run, remember.
You should have just waited until after the narrow section of the course.
You could also politely suggest to your local Park Run that people with dogs could start at the back for reasons of passing..