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.

You could get a bale of straw and spread it over the paths and road outside your house at bedtime - you know, like they used to do outside sick people's houses in the old days, to muffle the sound of the carriages. It might even prove a bit slippery

So and your husband you would rather listen to someone run past your house 20 times a night 4/5 times a week, keeping you both awake for 5 months rather than go out and say to someone and say ‘Can you not run past here it’s keeping us awake’
Really??

The best answer here is the cones in my opinion.

At first I thought you were a neighbour of mine but then the rest of your story doesn’t match. We have running man though. That’s all I’ve known him as for around 30 years. Runs everywhere with flapping feet. Poor guy. He doesn’t wake anyone up with laps at 5am though so it’s not your man.

I think you need to bite the bullet, OP.

Prepare to be dressed / have a dressing gown on one morning, and be outside and wave him down.

Tell him it's incredibly disturbing and can he vary his route.

@BigBlondeBimbo

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

Ha! I thought this thread would be about the running man dance too!

YANBU
The noise is probably much worse because everything is so quiet (normally) at that time of morning. Him thundering around with his clown shoes on is echoing around the square.

As others have suggested why not make up some signs. How about you offer some to all the neighbours and all put them up in your windows so you are all united. Something like....... ‘Dear Running Man, For the love of God please stop running around this square at 5am in the morning, have some consideration for your neighbours’.

I am amazed you have all put up with this for 5 months. I’m surprised someone hasn’t had a ‘polite’ word with him before now.

Get together with your neighbours and put cones out.

Defo chalk the pavement. Do it the night before. Say ‘please stop running here - you are so noisy.’ In massive letters. You could even draw some footprints.

I thought you meant the movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger, I was ready to be like “it came out about 30 years ago, you probably need to get over it tbh” xD

That sounds really annoying - how can he stand to just do the same very small circuit?

Re noise is he doing interval training perhaps and the slapping is him sprinting at his maximum speed? Not that it makes a difference to the annoyance factor.

Maybe make a marathon style banner and leave outside your house in the evening in preparation saying: it's fucking 5am!!

I hate being woken up by other people/dogs barking I would be seething. As you're awake anyway I think you should put your coat on and go out and tell him it's waking you up , with any luck he will be apologetic and run elsewhere.

full potty launched out of window
OR super soaker with pink coloured liquid (food colouring it stains beautifully
or
put a polite note out saying that it is disturbing you

@mauvedoor

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.

Sorry, OP, but that really made me snort with laughter!

Seriously though, that would annoy the keech out of me. I vote for @OutOfDateAppleCrumble's suggestion.

We live in a detached house and out next door neighbour has set up a gym in his garage with weights and a punch bag. He wallops that punch bag so hard that I can hear it when I'm inside our house with the windows closed. Fortunately, he knacks himself after 20 or so minutes, so the annoyance is short lived (and I put on loud music when he's pretending to be George Foreman which drowns out the noise).

Fortunately our dog is very old and deaf...

I thought you meant the movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger, I was ready to be like “it came out about 30 years ago, you probably need to get over it tbh” xD

Crossed my mind too! Perhaps a bunch of neighbours could don some lycra and start chasing him?

@Cam2020

I thought you meant the movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger, I was ready to be like “it came out about 30 years ago, you probably need to get over it tbh” xD

Crossed my mind too! Perhaps a bunch of neighbours could don some lycra and start chasing him?

Was that based on a Stephen King short story?

I misread first time and thought you said a lap was 1/2 mile which would be 10 mph = 6 mins/mile. That's pretty quick.
Now I see it's only 5mph = 12 mins/mile.

If he's been doing this a few times a week for months he should be getting a bit faster by now - maybe down to 45 mins or so.

Anyway, that's not the point; I'm a runner so was drawn to the thread.

I think you just need to get ready to go out and talk to him. If he's got earphones in he probably doesn't realise how flappy he is. It's also a massive waste of energy so maybe suggest he gets gait analysis done or some advice on how to improve his form.

@riotlady

I thought you meant the movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger, I was ready to be like “it came out about 30 years ago, you probably need to get over it tbh” xD

Me too

It was

Was that based on a Stephen King short story?

Yes, it was! Then that Hunger Games author ripped it off for a teen audience.

@Dmacka75

It was

@BigBlondeBimbo That was meant to be a reply to your comment It was a story by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman

I also thought you had issues with the running man movie when I saw the title... I know what I’m watching tonight 👍

He probably doesn't even realise he's making a noise.

Best to have a quick chat with him.

Get a nerf gun and shoot the flappy footed bastard

You’re all insane. He’s entitled to use the fucking public pavement at whatever time he likes. Close your window if it’s that much of an issue.

Still laughing at LakieLady’s ‘flappy footed fucker’

@MeredithGreysScalpel

The OP and all posters are being light-hearted....

Aren’t they..