This thread reminds me of the day I, as a teen, was horribly lost and distressed on a country path. Was it my fault I was lost? Yes. I tried to flag down a passing runner to ask if he could look at the map with me, his absolutely incredulous response 'I'm running! ' and he kept going. Did he every right to? Yes, he did. Would it have been nice for him to stop a moment and help even though he didn't have to? Yes.
I know it's different circumstances before any awfully wise person wishes to point that out, but honestly, if running and timing yourself is it not acceptable to just deduct a few seconds from your time at the end? Especially with wearables this is easy to do, to see how long you slowed or stopped?
It is sad reading how people don't even want to accept a moment's inconvenience because they should not 'have to', though that's pretty evident in some of the driving I witness on the roads as a pedestrian most days.
Even police horses have to be gradually acclimatised to the modern world, which is busy and largely given over to the car rather than foot traffic (runners included). We are all, by our reliance on cars because public transport is so shoddy, squashed into ever decreasing spaces. A little patience under the less than ideal circumstances goes a long way.
A rider up thread pointed out that they adjust their behaviour on bridleways for walkers, runners, children, people with dogs. Other people just as entitled to be there. Slowing their pace, stopping to let people stroke their horse etc. We're all just trying to get along, or should be.