about late-night joggers?

[Hassled]

I walk home from evening meetings quite often at around 9pm-ish. Nice quiet residential area, about a 20 minute walk, street lights, a few passing cars and dog walkers so I don't really feel vulnerable. Until, that is, I hear the sound of someone running up behind me and think panic, shit, this is it. And then it turns out to be some thoughtless twatty jogger who doesn't have the cop to think that maybe running up behind a solitary female on a dark street isn't the most thoughtful thing they could possibly do. I want to trip the next one up, or push them into the road or do something equally twatty. Cross the road, fuckwits, so you don't scare the shit out of lone pedestrians.

What are they supposed to do, hum Chariots of Fire loudly?

wear bells?

Erm well with respect why does your right to be out alone walking trump their right to be out alone running? I always run at night, and obviously I regret it if I give someone a scare but I'm not going to run in the middle of the road!

To quote my DH: -
"You never see a happy jogger."

:o Yes. Damn right. They should channel Vangelis.

Actually they should just cross the road before the point they are in my earshot.

Yes, to wearing bells, picturing joggers dressed as Morris Dancers.

Sniggering at humming chariots of Fire

YABU, obviously.

So because your paranoid they should spend their run zig zagging across the road?

Maybe that should be my new focus - a campaign to make all late-night joggers dress like Morris Dancers. That's the sort of online petition which is bound to work, I can tell.

I used to do a lot of running. I'd be more thoughtful than that I think. I've heard people say that joggers look miserable lots of times but I think it's a bit like being in labour. Hard work, sometimes painful but fulfilling and worth it at the end!

Sirzy - it'll be extra exercise for them, surely?

but they don't know how sensitive your hearing is.
I can hear very clearly but my DS has slight hearing loss in one ear so it is more muffled.so the jogger would have to cross at a different point for each of us... iyswim...

I got spooked by a jogger in the park in broad daylight. Don't know who was more scared, me or or him by my screeching "fucking hell". All I heard was the thudding and heavy breathing.

Yabu of course.

If you're that nervous, perhaps walking home alone at night isn't for you. Surely cyclists, slightly lost car drivers, fast walkers, dog walkers, etc are equally upsetting for you?

I once had a man walking his dog tell me I should have a bell with me when I was out running at night. Me: 50kg soaking wet, him large beefy old man.

Public pavements - you get all sorts on them. I get really annoyed by couples holding hands walking slowly.

I hate posts that start with :-

"Eerr"
"Erm..."

Wayne Rooney does it all the time

I like it, bells for joggers.
Where I used to live we had a 500 acre park and loads of quiet little side streets with wide pavements. Where did most twats jog? Slap down the busy high street and made loud complaints if people got in their way . I figured they either wanted to be noticed jogging or jogged so much that it jiggled their brains down to their pants!

So when it comes to joggers you are SO NBU!

Wayne Rooney posts on Mumsnet?

I thought Gransnet was more his thing...

OK I'm probably not being fair on the innocent sweaty late-night jogger. I'm just fucked off with having the wits scared out of me - and I'm really not especially fragile. Most of the time I quite enjoy the walk home.

I get that it would scare you. I guess you could turn round and check who is running up behind you, as soon as you hear footsteps? Disguise the backward-look as checking before you cross the road yourself?
Would be kinder of the runner to cross the road when they notice you, but yr not powerless in this situation.
I run at night, but have never come met a pedestrian/runner due to where I go being pretty rural/isolated.

Gransnet :o

worra

it's marathon season, we are all trying to fit in the long runs (20 milers) before tapering down. Chances are it was daylight when that runner set off

The streets aren't just for people returning from meetings! Yabu

What about the poor pedestrians on the other side of the road?