out for a jog and women yells at me to stop

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Really feeling quite confused. I feel like I have done something wrong but I don't think that I have. Or have I? I was out jogging in some fields (a popular area for joggers, dog walkers etc) and came near two women. I was at least 5 metres away from them and keeping that distance as I was passing them when one of the women shouted, Stop!' at me.I stopped and said I am at least 2 metres away from you and she came back with, well I have a chest infection so that isn't good enough. She then went on to say that all us joggers were just panting and spreading our breathe everywhere. I honestly didn't know what to say. In the end I just jogged about another 4 metres away from her and carried on but was left feeling slightly mystified and a bit cross. I don't think I had done anything wrong. Her tone was really aggressive. What do you think? Should I have apologized or something? I don't think I should have but clearly she did.

If Blocken's model is relevant to viral transmission, what it demonstrates is that if you exercise with other people, e.g. as part of a cycling group, riding along exactly 2metres apart isn't enough if you're in each other's slipstream for an hour.

As meeting up with people from other households isn't even allowed, it's not really relevant yet.

It certainly doesn't mean that you're more likely to catch coronavirus from a cyclist going quickly past you than from a dog walker ambling past you.

Isn't there new W since our though that runners have more than a 2 meter level? Due to sweat and breath?

I might of just made that up. Lols. But I'm sure I read somewhere about it n

@Dalamalama

You can't trip someone up if they're 2'meters away

He either wasn't 2 meters away. Or someone was lying.....and he was closer than that

I would have asked her “if you have a chest infection, why are you walking in an area where joggers, dog walkers and the like are most likely to be”. Surely, she should have chosen a different area to walk or a different time when not so many people are about. It’s not your fault.

I would have asked her “if you have a chest infection, why are you walking in an area where joggers, dog walkers and the like are most likely to be”.

Well, given that the OP was metres and metres and metres away, unless she has a foghorn off a voice, she wouldn’t have been heard

Yes me too!

I've walked for years......now I'm so hacked off with the lack of pedestrian etiquette. Dog walkers who assume you like dogs and you have to give up space to accommodate their animal plus their mess. Cyclists who can't sound a bell or could shout hello etc instead of scaring me to death when they whiz by silently. People who will not keep 2 metres away and why is it that I always give way to these 'chicken game players?'. I must add it's not all dog walkers/cyclists/pedestrians but enough to annoy me.

I’m a long term cyclist and I’m just as pissed off with bad etiquette! The bell thing - doesn’t work if people have headphones in, so you’re just left ping-pinging and sounding aggressive to any others around. Also, some folk jump a mile at the bell ring and then grumble at you for ‘scaring’ them. Today a runner stood in right the middle of a farm track, headphones in, standing texting - she either didn’t see or hear me or chose to deliberately ignore me but I couldn’t get past without going within 2m.

There’s always going to be idiot walkers/cyclists/runners/dog walkers but we all ultimately most of us are decent reasonable people with the same aim so can’t we all just try and be a bit more tolerant?

Yes we had a man on local Facebook last week who was raging about cyclists using their bells - how dare they ring at him and expect him to jump out of their way? This week we had two people raging about cyclists not using their bells.

I ring to let people know that I’m there. Generally they’ll move over a little, for which they’ll get a thank you. If I’m walking I appreciate knowing there’s a bike behind me. I used to call “I’m passing on your right” as well until I realised that for some reason this made some pedestrians move to their right!

Based on these experiments, Blocken and his team of researchers concluded that when taking part in sports, the 1.5-meter rule is not sufficient to protect against infection with the COVID-19 virus. Instead, they recommend a distance of at least four to five meters when walking in the same direction, 10 meters when running and cycling slowly, and at least 20 meters for faster movement

One study does not equal evidence and as far as I know no government has banned running or cycling or said you have to keep to these distances.

As for the cycle bell thing I find it really imperious and it screams "get out of my way". A cheery "excuse me" is fine, as long as I don't come across a MNer of the "I don't have to get out of anyone's way and you have to move at my glacial pace" tribe.

(I know Spain was strict about exercise but not because of that study because they introduced their very strict lockdown before it came out).

Blocken’s study was based on a machine in a wind tunnel not a person running/cycling. If you read the detail, it suggested that running/cycling in another’s runner’s /cyclist’s slipstream required a further distance which I’m sure most people don’t do anyway. It was not peer reviewed and has been discredited. But of course everyone needs to be considerate and respect that everyone has an equal right to use the sane space safely. We run but always make way for walkers either by stopping or running further away, as do all the runners we know.

The woman sounds like an absolute head-case to me! Maybe they let her out for the day! You didn't do anything wrong OP (other than call running "jogging", lol). Keep on running :)

@Dalamalama thanks. I take my 3yo and 1yo out for walks and a lot of joggers and cyclists expect us to go in the road while they use the pavement. Makes me feel unsafe, so I now choose the most rural roads. Thankfully farmers are much more accommodating