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.

Find out where he lives and then position a recording of a Maria Sharapova tennis match outside his window overnight. 100 decibels of grunting every time she hits the ball will soon wear thin. And tennis matches can be loooong. If you really want to keep him awake, choose a Nadal marathon match - five hours plus of grunting that is the decibel equivalent of a motorbike/hand-held drill...

Start a neighbourhood WhatsApp group. Once it's established, casually ask if anyone else is being woken by this mystery slapping sound every morning. Let the responses pile in and hope he's on there.

Can't believe some posters are suggesting he can do what he likes because the road is public! As for him 'having' to do laps for some reason...

Agree with those who are saying just speak politely to him. After all this time I'd be more than willing to put myself out one morning and get out there.

Hopefully he's a decent guy and will either stop or change something so it has much less of an impact.

If it doesn't stop, then I'd be less nice the next time. What he's doing is antisocial and the only excuse is ignorance.

On a different note, there is one noise at least that headphones (and white noise machines) don't block: neighbours slamming fire doors I live in a town centre with trains, church bells, etc., but I've never got used to this and it wakes me up every time. So I know you don't acclimatise to all noises.

Earplugs, not headphones - headphones + white noise DO block pretty much everything, I've found!

@mauvedoor

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!

Well you know he will be passing again, you must have some idea of when you could nip out and flag him down

It sounds annoying, especially the repeated laps, but I'm not entirely sure why the obvious solution of 'go and talk to him' was less preferable than lying at home seething for months.

There's loads of runners in my area, and somehow we've managed to avoid this heard of elephants, flappy feet, stomping thing that half the posters on this thread seem to have.

I know most of the posts are light-hearted but some of them seriously sound like they'd not be out of place on a local moaning Facebook group where people have a good old whinge and pat themselves on the back for their neighbourhood policing

I think I know him. Does he play INXS really loud?

Gosh I’d absolutely go out and ask him to stop, he probably has no idea he’s waking you up

I had a lockdown runner on my cul de sac. I think he was frustrated because gyms were shut and as ours is a steep hill, people training round here seem to seek it out.

I found it really annoying when I was working. Thump thump thump and "huhhhh" "huuuuuhhh". It isn't a problem when someone just goes past once. It's the repetition cos you're waiting for it.

We had a whole heard of runners one night with a running club and someone shouting to motivate them. It's a bit much.

I feel bit sorry for him, he probably has no idea he makes so much noise and would be mortified.. winter is coming so surely u will close windows now.. leave him be

I wasn't sure if this was going to be about the book, the film or the dance 😆

I think you should write in chalk on the pavement '5am running man - Shhhhh!'