To get the rage at running man?

[mauvedoor]

Ever since lockdown, so perhaps 5 or so months now, there has been a man who has started running really early in the morning.
Our housing estate is a square shape with smaller cul de sacs inside the square. The total of the outside of the square is around a quarter of a mile.
We live on an outer side of the square.
Around 4 or 5 mornings a week the man will run laps of the square over and over again from 5am until 6am. Some days he starts at 4.45am instead of 5am. No exaggeration, he must run past our house at least 20 times in an hour.
We sleep with our windows open a crack and every time he runs he wakes us up with his feet slapping the tarmac every few minutes as he runs past for an entire hour.
I'm not even sure how his feet make such a loud slapping noise, but I'm sure his form can't be that great as he makes that much noise.
A couple of neighbours have mentioned being woken up by him too, especially when it's hot and windows are open overnight.
Not entirely sure what I can do, I can't call over to him as he wears headphones, and I'm certainly not chasing him down the street at 5am.
Even if he just varied his route a little bit I think it would improve matters.
I'm probably being a right snowflake and I'm sure people will tell me to shut the window, but they're eco friendly houses and absolutely roasting! Tried a fan and didn't really get on with it.
I'm raging at the thought of being woken up at 5am tomorrow by his slapping feet again.

Even the sight of him makes me cross.
With his massive noisy feet and his head torch.
He looks at his watch every 5 seconds so he's more than likely timing his laps.
I want to scream that this is a residential estate and not a bloody running track.

That's so awful, yanbu at all! Can't you put up a sign in your front garden? (No loud running before 9am)

Could you chalk a message on the pavement

“Please run quietly Mr Slappy feet”
Or
“Find a bloody running track you twunt”

So tempted.
Husband said chalk on the road in huge letters "PLEASE RUN QUIETLY".

Honestly though, I lie in bed seething. Every time I'm close to dropping off again his clown feet come thundering past again on his latest lap.

YANBU.

Put a tripwire across the pavement outside your house. That'll stop the flappy-footed fucker.

That would drive me crazy! I would get up one morning and talk to him. He needs to go to a bloody park.

Bear trap or a massive dog poo?

I honestly don’t know but it would rage me massively because I need sleep and if I don’t get sleep I need coffee and proper coffee from the nice posh coffee shop and he would be costing me money which would make me cross even more.

Chalk run quietly, tighten your laces, improve your form...fuck off etc

You could stand outside at 5am, in the middle of the pavement in dressing gown and slippers, preferably with hair in curlers and arms folded!

Probably better is to leave a sign, saying that he has woken you at 5 every morning for 5 months, and please could he find a different route to run. YANBU

Just get up and go outside and tell him it’s disturbing everyone on your street??

Hmmm. You could find one of those footpath closed signs and relocate it to your road.
(They seem to be left behind once roadworks are finished here)
Collect a load of cones and cone off the whole road.

I’d make a sign that said ‘run somewhere else you inconsiderate twat’

I don't even know if he's a resident of our estate. There's around 100 houses, so it's very possible he is.
Still doesn't excuse his antisocial running though.
I just don't want to piss off the neighbours!!!

One morning get everyone up and outside to run with him - runners like to do it alone.

Oh that is a bit early! I hate being woken up at that time of the morning, as I can never get back to sleep. Why are his footsteps so loud though? Must be something up with his form or his shoes?

PS: did anyone else think this was going to be about the running man dance? I had no idea what could have annoyed you about it, but was looking forward to finding out

@LakieLady

YANBU.

Put a tripwire across the pavement outside your house. That'll stop the flappy-footed fucker.

Local people did that around here. It was lethal.

Supersoaker!

Find out where he lives and blast an air horn outside his house twenty times at regular intervals between 1am and 2am. You’ll only need to do it for one night.

Why do even care if he’s a resident? You’ve been fuming 4/5 mornings a week FOR 5 MONTHS. Get a fucking backbone and tell him to stop doing laps outside of your house

Stand with your back to his house and ear phones in when you do it so he can’t call out to you from his bedroom window. Make him get his trousers on and come out to confront you.

I don't know why his footsteps are so loud.
I've done C25K a few time's (I'm definitely no runner tho!) and my feet hardly made a noise, where as his literally slap the tarmac loud enough to wake people in their bedrooms up.
He runs in the middle of the road too, so I reckon 5 metres away from my bedroom window and it sounds so so loud even though it's not right under my window.

You could write worlds on the road in chalk spaces out

FUCK

OFF

YOU

NOISY

BASTARD

etc. Around the whole 1/4 mile.

WHY ARE YOU NOT GOING OUT TO TELL HIM TO STOP?

I'm not going out because it's 5am, I'm in my nightwear, he's got headphones in, and also he's really fast!
Plus it's barely daylight!
And I'm a wimp so would rather confrontation free suggestions!

Penguin bollard the road.