To ask a man to move at parkrun

I think you were unreasonable not to be patient and wait, and he was unreasonable to make pass aggressive comments.

I did phrase it badly - I should say that the default is to generally allow dogs, and the organisation has specific rules on how dogs should be controlled while at parkrun.

I tend to choose parkruns that allow dogs. I don't want to go do run training and then have to walk the dog after - that would be really annoying. It's also much more fun for me.

But op literally says he was as far left as he could go and runners were coming back the other way. At our Parkrun op was in the wrong, you don't expect someone to literally stop and hike up the bank to let you past! It's understood you have to adjust your pace on narrow bits it's a community fun run not about you going as fast as you can

It takes a little more room, but dogs can run in pretty close to your leg - a person and a dog is much easier to.pass than 2 people side by side.

The OPs may do, my nearest run is a very strict no dog one, it's not a universal rule and personally I prefer no dogs unless the paths are plenty wide enough

You need to get faster if you want to overtake people without ending up looking like a noob

It's her pacing if she wants to run like that she can

So start a new Parkrun.

I thought park run was supposed to be fun but it sounds a bit competitive

I have always found parkruns to be super friendly and welcoming.I would say respect for and tolerance for others is the main parkrun etiquette.I think you were a little Impatient !

If it’s narrow, you wait. It’s parkrun etiquette. You know it’s coming up narrow, you eyeball the paces of the ones in front of you, and overtake before you get to the bottleneck. But if you get there and it’s a bit slow, you wait.

And you most definitely don’t overtake then stop cause you’ve just exhausted yourself, learn to pace yourself, you’re going to injure yourself. And I’ll think you’re a bit of a tit.

Was the man part of the park run or not?

Park run specifically allows dogs. It's a accessable community event, not elite sporting.

It’s not 3 separate ones it’s one with slow and fast route options.

They may not be official but where the slowest with dogs and buggies go one way and the fastest go another leaving the main route and rejoining it later.

Should have waited for a gap, and need to sort your pacing. If you're going to ask him to move, you really can't then have him overtake you at a full stop.

I don't think he should have been at a park run with a dog. Ridiculous.

Yabu and Abit rude if you stopped after being impatient to catch your breath.

Yabu, where did you want him to move too when he was as far left as he could go and the dog was on a short leash? Then stopping a bit ahead anyway, you’d have been better just keeping with the pace

How can it possibly be unreasonable to enjoy running in a different way to the way you do? Did you intend to come off so superior?

But it isn't. I am very much not a dog fan but parkrun is very clear that people can take their dogs provided the dogs are in a short lead.

I would also have been a bit annoyed with the op about her pacing. I go fairly regularly and do find the sprint and stop people quite irritating as they seem to stop on muddy or single file bits where it is hard to pass and then sprint again as soon as it widens.

Parkrun is about times, but times are not the main focus - it is supposed to be a community morning run so there are always things which will slow you down.

I did a fantastic parkrun early this year which was flat and along a river on a solid path but which has a rising bridge on the route. If a boat wanted to get out you had to wait for c. 5 minutes. As it was flat there were lots of people in wheelchairs being pushed for parkrun - there were points where you couldn't overtake but you would have been a total dick to ask someone pushing their child in a wheelchair to move so you could get a better PB, even if you got caught by the bridge and had your worst parkrun result ever.

You were rude and in the wrong. He and his dog are entitled to run at any speed they wish. You wait until there is room for you to overtake.

Overtaking and then having to stop made you look like a complete tit.

Parkrun is a social run for the benefit of all, not your personal running track.

I don't like it when people are impatient behind me either. And I definitely would have been annoyed with you in my head and might have smirked inside when I passed you later. However, it's very unfriendly and unparkrun-like for him to have said these things out loud to you. I would have been unhappy too.

People need to remember that Parkrun is just a run and not a race. It would have been better in this instance to wait for a gap to get past him, it wouldn't have taken long on an out and back.

YABU - also, I'd have felt silly if I'd asked someone to move for me and then had to stop to catch my breath. As previous posters have said, work on your pacing.

This. What a dick.

Urgh I avoid the timing of our local park run as they completely take over any space on the pavements. I think what people fail to remember is the space is not for the sole reserve of runners, they do not have priority over other users of pathways and good etiquette is required.