to want to just go for a quiet run without

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... some bloke passing comment? Tonight it was 'My tits are bigger than yours sweetheart'.

I sometimes get offered chips as i pass by those on the way back from the multiple take outs on the roads near by where we live. Always makes me grin. I like to run in the dark best feels smoother somehow.

I have people talking or commenting while I'm running. Leave me alone!

I'd assume that someone saying good luck to me whilst I was running was either being sarky or patronising.. but I'm sure you mean it well!

Fuck off tends to work alright for me! I am not known for my witty one liners

When I run along the seafront hardly anyone acknowledges my nods and smiles, when I run cross country or inland on country roads we all smile and say hello Even the cyclists say hello

I am a friendly type and like to acknowledge other runners but there really are some grumpy sods out there!!

Neither sarky not patronising and thetasigmamum you are free to ignore me!

You could switch to rowing, then you get "row, row, row your boat" sung at you from the bridges. No, really, I have never heard that one before.

Oh listen - I was running and my bra snapped (catch broke). I have droopy, middle-aged tits and a flabby belly with its own orbit. So, I carried on running with me tits slapping against me belly and the two pensioners ahead of me thought I was giving them a round of applause

no, I'm 6 foot and about 14 stone wit ha shaved head, and no-one male or female has wished me 'good luck'. Strange. I suspect the 'good luck' thing is reserved.

I usually get "you're brave" but I do usually push my kids round in the running pram when I go so I understand.

just out of interest andrew do you extend this good luck wish to all runners/joggers or just women?
If it's the latter then I would suggest that this comes across as patronizing at best and at worst slimy.
Why do you need to comment at all?

Rubyrubyruby believe me I do not feel flattered by the comments I get. If it was some gorgeous, intelligent, sensitive, gentle-looking guy who resembled James McAvoy, Jim Sturgess, Colin Firth as Mr Darcy or Michael Fassbender I would run with my head held high. Unfortunately they seem oblivious to my charms.

Andrew, personally, I would also interpret your comment as patronising, but I suppose it depends how you say it. And as others have said, I never get the comments when I'm running off-road, just on the street.

Interestingly a long time ago when my body was pre-kids and therefore marginally worthy of comment, I managed to time my run just as the whole of the Manchester United stadium emptied after a game. Not one bloke (and there were thousands) commented.

Doodlez - just snorted tea out my nostrils :)

Are you in Gravesend OP? If you are it was probably my brother. Next time punch him in the face and tell him his sister thinks he's a twat and would fuck off and live on the Moon.

Oh christ, Doodlez, that had me in tears.

I sometimes smile and nod at fellow runners, because I think that's nice to acknowledge others. That's all that needs to happen, although a 'hi' or other friendly greeting is also nice. If someone said "good luck" to me, I would take it to mean "you look like you're going to pass out any minute now, you unfit lump", but maybe thta's just me being paranoid. :o

"Good luck" is massively patronising. It's suggesting your running skills aren't going to get you round but luck might!

I run with my ipod on full blast so I don't hear anything above that other than the occasionals car horn.

I once had a bonkers woman gesticulating at me as I was about to run past her in the opposite direction. So I stopped and took my earphones out and the blasted woman actually asked me for directions!!! I was utterly utterly perplexed that she had stopped me. It was during the day and there were other people about, why did she have to target me? In any case I didn't know where she was talking about and told her and trotted off. Anyway, on my way back some 10 mins later I met the same woman in the same place and she tried to stop me again!! Some people are totally oblivious.

Andrewofogg, if I walked up to you and said "you know, your butt cheeks are on show and your back tits are larger than my front" or anything equally absurd, you should know I mean no harm, and you are free to ignore me!

"Fancy a rub down love?" was my favourite

I have just taken up running, now that I dont have any mountains to climb.

And while I have great stamina for a 7 hour mountain trip, I have little stamina for explosive cardiovascular.

If somebody made me a comment, I think I would cry, or go home in shame.
Especially a "good luck" comment. It hints that I need a darn good piece of luck to get a cross the park, or down the street, or whatever.

But I suppose that is what men who comment wants. To upset women. I see no other point. Why else patronise?

At a light tangent, a younger bloke runner overtook my DH in regent's park Sunday morning and rounded a corner. DH ran round too and the bloke had stopped and asked him 'Have you got a light?' holding up his fag. looked affronted at DH's 'Are you kidding me?' and ran off at speed to catch up with the next runner.

light=slight:)

What a load of narcissists on this thread. It used to be normal to say hello to people on passing them. A cheery "good morning" or "enjoy your run" is what I normally say. I am happy when someone smiles at me and says something if I am out running. What is this self obsession? Sure, comments re tits are a bit vulgar but nothing that a grown up ought not to be able to deal with. I am assuming this was in broad daylight and did not seem threatening.

Larry, I am sure you have never encountered a female who would leer at you and say "oohoy, dangling willy, how is it hanging there" or something similar.

A nice smile, or good morning in passing is nice and polite.

No-one ever makes comments when I'm out running. Perhaps it's because my norks are modest and don't really bounce at all once I've clamped them down with a load of Nike elastic

Quint,

I would be quite complimented but I realise males and females are not analogous in that regard. But why is "good luck" patronising? I wished a mate good luck before he started a marathon and he was a 2:45 runner. There is no assumption of superiority in it, unless you make it so.