Joggers spitting - to think it’s unnecessary

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As the title suggests.

Lovely walk this morning in my local national trust park. Big group of men and women (local jogging club) run by. Half of them hacking out massive globs of spit and spitting onto the path - not even off it which tbh is vile in itself - but straight onto the only path around the lake.

AIBU to think it it’s unnecessary and disgusting? I know asthmatics (such as myself) can struggle with excess phlegm - but for goodness sake, you do not need to spit. If you are struggling stop sodding exercising - don’t spit up all over the sodding path you grim wankers.

HIV? Even if you could catch it like that. What you going to do? Lick it? 😆

It's a good job you've never been at the start of a race, due to the amount of wild weeing going on. There is literally someone behind every wall!
I guess you see the same amount of spitting and wild weeing on a good night out in any city! At least the runners are keeping themselves fit and reducing the burden on the NHS!

It is really unnecessary - for both women and men, and regardless of whether running or not. I was watching the Diamond League over the weekend and saw some of the athletes doing it, and of course footballers love doing it (I'd send them off for it!).

If you produce more spittle you just swallow it. If you don't want to do that, spit into a tissue and throw it away. It's not hard to take a tissue with you when you run.

Edited: I find wild weeing a lot less gross. As long as it's well hidden behind a bush.

Take a tissue with you. My nose runs a lot when I run, so I just take a tissue (or use my glove in the winter - yes I know that's gross too but I wash the gloves).

Id have to stop my bike completely to use a tissue & blow my nose while riding. I admit I'm not willing to stop every mile or so on a ride. I'd have mighty bulges in my socks for the used tissues too, and then some bin to find to dispose of them. I guess I could carry that many clean tissues in my bra, perhaps. Getting them out would also mean stopping the bike completely.

I live rurally and every now and then do out of necessity. Not due to excess phlegm but inhaling disgustingly massive flies that have no doubt been around the dairy cows and the tanks full of their shite. Never done a snot rocket, if absolutely essential that's what your running top is for.