AIBU to be fucked off at road marathons?

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Once a year in London is one thing but they're bloody everywhere now and it's not like the organisers put diversions in so you can get to where you're going. We had one in our town a couple of months ago and I couldn't leave my (no through) street because they blocked it off so people could spend a day running past it. I mean I couldn't even cross the road at the end of my street, on foot. Now I've just found out that I can't get to where I need to be for a family event later this month because another load of joggers are closing down a bunch of roads into/in this other place.

AIBU to think they could just run round a park? Or a field? Or a racecourse? Or a hill? Or somewhere where they're not in the way of residents and other people who just want to go about their business.

I know I probably am BU. It's probably nice that people get to run around if they like running. They probably enjoy spending a day running past my street and I should be happy for them. But, I am a bit fucked off with it all.

I’m very sorry to hear this. It must have been devastating.

The main culprit for holding up ambulances 365 days of the year, is other traffic. Its not the occasional road race that is the problem on our roads

Yes but that’s not what we were talking about. That’s an entirely unrelated point. Sorry if this is hard for you to follow.

💗I'm so sorry to read about your brother.

No need to be so condescending to the other poster. It's not a good look.

The point is that roadworks and traffic cause problems every day, yet people whinge about a couple of hours a year.

A sense of proportion goes a long way.

I was talking about the bigger picture, its all related.

Same with the name thing😂

Right Well you don’t live through it and you don’t know. Roadworks and traffic are minor inconveniences which affect your life on a constant and small manner. Not being able to get away from your home for one twentieth of your weekends when you have disabled family members and you work full time is quite another.

Once again, it’s not a few hours. Surrounding roads shut for twelve hours at least. The road to the rest of the world shuts at 3am and opens again after 3pm (pretty much when everything is shut).

But I will tell my disabled relatives who cannot leave home to think of the greater good.. the charities with their boards on six figure salaries.. Whitbread corporation and its shareholders etc

What do you think the answer is?
To stop holding the events?

Absolutely, nothing must stop the free movement of the 34 million cars that clog up uk roads

Not being able to get away from your home for one twentieth of your weekends when you have disabled family members and you work full time is quite another

You really are over-egging it though. It's twice a year that Manchester holds major road races. And only one of those (the main marathon in April) is the full 12hr closure you refer to - during the half in October everything is reopened by 4pm.

So essentially you're seething because, on one Sunday in April, around 40,000 runners raise a huge amount for charity and also bring in thousands for the city's economy.

Frankly, as someone who used to live on that route as well, I was always far more inconvenienced by the football every other week. And the cricket.

Frankly, as someone who used to live on that route as well, I was always far more inconvenienced by the football every other week.

I worked with someone who lived near Highbury when Arsenal played there and she used to have their home games marked in her work calendar. Presumably so she could be somewhere else!

I still think constant roadworks are far more of a problem than very occasional road races.

Well you might think it and I'm sure you have a nice time to yourself thinking it but everyone on here who lives within a marathon "loop" is telling you differently lol.

1 - if it's twice a year (Marathon and half) then it's 1/26 of your weekends, not 1/20

2 - see my earlier post - Manchester Marathon have moved the finish for next year's event, so it doesn't come back into Old Trafford, which will mean the roads will open much earlier. So that will make quite a difference.

it happens way more than twice a year ;)