Joggers should be banned from paths and pavements

[BalancedIndividual]

As a car driver I find that the occasional cyclist breaks highway codes, cycles dangerously, or cycles without care and consideration. Key word being occasional, so no biggie. Just like how the occasional car diver is a .

But as a pedestrian going for a stroll in the park, the number of rude, selfish, careless and aggressive joggers i've seen is ridiculous high.

I see a jogger coming towards me, I walk to the side/edge of the path, but joggers always decide to keep running straight down the middle....

Similar to the above, joggers not keep a safe distance, and actually brushing past me.

And lastly, the worst offenders, joggers running side by side taking up the whole path, coming towards me, and giving me looks as if im supposed to jump out the way and off the path. ***

I honestly think legislation should be brought in to ban jogging on paths and pavements. Restricting joggers to grassland/cross country, outdoor tracks, private land, and the gym. The same way that cycling isnt permitted on pavements.

AIBU?

Joggers should be applauded for keeping fit. We should all be jogging everywhere 😃. I speak as a non-runner by the way.

@Restawhile

Today 16:12 Blondiney

It's the heavy breathing that gets me, if they could just hold their breath until they got home I wouldn't mind them nearly as much.

Actually I do hold my breathe , face outwards away from them, until I’m past ! I think I’m weird!

I do the same

I doubt these pedestrians notice though

Banning is a bit excessive. I have noticed this myself when out dog walking. I stand aside and they just carry on without attempting to give me two metres. It’s entitled and selfish behaviour, but unfortunately being an entitled selfish knob is very common in our society. If you are worried about infection wear a mask.

@ChnandlerBong

loving the idea of fixed penalty notices handed out by park wardens.

can you imagine trying to hand out penalty notices to people who are running through a park? (cue the Benny Hill music?)

They'd have a field day on parkrun day!

It's actually the walkers who are rude. Walking side by side and taking up the whole path with zero awareness of what's around them. I was running today (alone) on a path was two-persons wide. Everyone was out with their exercise bubble partner taking up the whole path. I said "excuse me" gently as I came up behind them and no one moved into single file. No one. I had to run into the fields to pass. That's rude.

I'd be interested to know how the OP defines 'paths' -- which they claim joggers should be banned from.

Not very interested, though, since I don't believe for one single second that joggers are on average less considerate than people who walk.
It's an odd idea, isn't it, that the different speed at which you use a path correlates with the degree of reasonableness with which you use it? When jogging myself, I have been pretty annoyed from time to time by the milling gangs of some slower path-users who spread themselves right across the width of the path as they gabble among themselves and generally demonstrate the fish-out-of-water ineptness of their presence anywhere that isn't a shopping centre.
Other walkers are fine, though, so I wouldn't want to ban them out of hand.

I run three to four times a week to keep fit and to have a break away from home, as I'm working from home and have the kids at home, it's the only respite I get at the moment. I'm always considerate when I see a pedestrian, move on the road giving them space, but I have found people so rude, they never say thank you and a few times I've been verbally abused by pedestrians who have shouted at me for running, as I'm 'spreading covid' even though Chris Whitty has stated that the chances of catching covid from a runner is minimal due to the fleeting time you go past people.
As for banning runners from paths and roads, that is ridiculous. Everyone should be more considerate towards each other. People are just getting their exercise, be it walking, running or cycling as gyms are closed and let's face it, there's not much else to do at the moment. As news reports have stated that the in the UK 65% of the adult population are either overweight or obese then everyone getting out there moving is no bad thing.

It's actually the walkers who are rude

But it isn't. It's the selfish twats who are rude, their preferred method of movement is irrelevant.

I have as much right to jog on public paths and pavements as you do to walk on them. Such a ridiculous notion to ban people from jogging other than on muddy terrain.

@VettiyaIruken

Gyms can be expensive, tracks are few and far between and cross country carries its own hazards - safety, terrain etc.

What's needed is for people to be more considerate of others. Walkers, joggers, horse riders, cyclists, car drivers... All of us. Just be mindful of other users of the same space.

Vettiyalruken, I just keep agreeing with you today. :)

It ought to be a no-brainer that everybody should be considerate. The fact that they aren't and don't think they need to be, speaks volumes.

Groundbreaking idea, but in a liberal democracy people are usually only ‘banned’ from doing something when it poses a significant risk of harm to that person and/or others, or there’s another good reason.

We don’t ban things because they are mildly irritating or inconvenient. None of the irritations you’ve listed get anywhere close to justifying a ‘ban’. And your irritation has to be balanced against the fact that it’s in all our interests for the population to be as healthy as possible. If there was hard evidence suggesting that jogging on paths and pavements causes a lot of accidents, then you might have a point.

People are entitled to jog. I go out very early at around 6am so hardly any one around. Would you ban that. So ridiculous. Other people’s rights are just as important as yours.

SimonJT

Anyone else confused that a man with a bit of a fat gut is considered in shape?“

I’ve only just realised that he has a skin coloured picket. Thought he was running in a sarong or had burst his joggers 😁

SoupDragon

It's actually the walkers who are rude

“But it isn't. It's the selfish twats who are rude, their preferred method of movement is irrelevant.“

👏👏👏👏👏

Laughable OP. Idiot or troll? Hard to know which.

Mysterian

And unicyclists. They're...unsettling“

I’d love to see a unicyclist. Would happily move aside for that. Especially if they were juggling, too.

And hula hoopists. They're so very "look at me gyrate!"

I went for a run this morning on a riverside path that's about 2m wide and 3x I passed people walking two abreast who chose not to move into single file as I ran towards them. If I'm coming up behind someone I warn them I'm going to pass and move as far to the side as possible, hoping they will do the same at the opposite side, and if the path is particularly narrow, I jump into the undergrowth so I don't invade people's space. In my experience, it's not the runners being inconsiderate

And people who order bizarre coffees in front of you in the queue that involves 27 different stages. Grind the nuts, steam the milk, grate the nutmeg, squirt the tin of cream. Just get out the way and let me get my tea and chocolate brownie.

Get a grip, a reality check and chill out, sista

Honestly this is like the Mikado Little List. Any more to come?

No but cyclists should.

Unicyclists and hula-hoopists?

Wow, I live a sheltered life. Most exciting it gets here is someone with those poles.

I have unicyclist envy now.

A penny farthing went by my house the other week. Nothing against them particularly. Shouldn't be encouraged though. I would be totally against tax breaks for penny farthings.