AIBU to ask the local running club to move its Sunday stop?

[Welshmum2010]

About the local running club. I live in a smallish village with others close by. Someone who doesn’t live locally has started a running club in the area , due to I would guess demand and you can also do a good circuit on very quiet roads and through flat fields. This as a concept is absolutely great and I have no overall issue. However they have one of their ‘exercises stops’ outside my house at 8am on a Sunday. This includes a a lot of shouting and then loud chatter from 10-15 people for 5 mins. It wakes me up , this is the only day I don’t have work. Now I don’t own the road and I understand that. But I think it’s inconsiderate. There is a large secluded car park area they could use literally 50m down the road or a field 50m the other way. Also for context I have neighbours but I don’t think it would be so loud for them. So I am really considering asking them to move to one of the other areas not near houses. It’s not the crack of dawn but it’s really annoying and seems no reason why it’s right there. I have the organisers fb from her promoting the activity.

It's not a her problem it's a them problem. I wouldn't want a group making noise outside my house at 8am every Sunday.
How do you know the road is publicly owned? The only info the OP has given is that she doesn't own it.

this. TBH Id be pretty fed up to have a group of people regularly meeting and shouting outside my house at any time.

It is on a Sunday for a large percentage of people who want one day to lie in.

Give over. Maybe not for you but op has said Sunday is the only day she doesnt work. Another case of inconsiderate runners/cyclists etc showing inconsidersation towards others. Seems to be a common theme within the healthy lifestyle brigade....

“Hi, can I ask you to please move your stop a tiny bit farther down the road? I completely support your running group, but being woken up and I would really appreciate a little bit more sleep. Thanks”

Just park your car right up on the pavement so they cant stand there

It’s not really a car park more of a piece of waste land where people park in the week. The field is a park / public one and not a farmers field.

They stand in the road, I have a corner house so that wouldn’t really work

No harm in asking to keep the noise down before 9.30 on a Sunday morning in a residential street , while suggesting a more suitable meeting point for the post run socialising.

. but there's not much you can do if they ignore you. So keep you tone good natured

I think this is what I am going to message and say or very similar

We are usually up and 6:30 but you are not being unreasonable at all.

If they refusee to move then make sure you are a pain in the arse every sunday at 8am until they do move.

If they refuse your polite and very reasonable request to make their stop somewhere else…….. buy a fog horn, or a really loud alarm or whistle. Every time they stand outside your house making noise, then make an even louder noise out the window to disturb them. They will soon get the point.

I had a cycle club that did this outside my house. Bloody inconsiderate. And yes, lots of shouting. I had a corner house.

So self absorbed in what they are doing. Forget that anyone else exists. Or don’t care. Just a little bit in love with themselves too.

Lean out of the window and say ; look, it is 8am on a Sunday morning and can they please just go away. Their noise is disturbing others. If they want to shout can they go somewhere not surrounded by homes and do it.

I have done that and it worked. Never bothered again.

yeah, tempting as it may be, not sure the neighbours will like that.

yanbu it would annoy me too

It is for a lot of people. Not everyone wants to be up with the lark

Of course you are not being unreasonable.
Bloody rude and dense of them.
8am is an ungodly hour on a Sunday.
I live in a city and there isn't a peek at 8am.

They might not like it on the one occasion you need to do it, but if it works then it means peace and quiet for all the neighbours every Sunday forevermore.

Don’t be so ridiculous!

OP I would have emailed them as soon as I realised my house was the regular stop. It’s so inconsiderate and I’d be really annoyed.

Ask them, they probably just haven’t realised. I’m a member of a running club and I know we wouldn’t mind someone asking a reasonable request like yours.

Have you come from the Victorian era? Do people actually communicate like this? It’s a casual and reasonable request, not a formal legal procedure.

And why would she need to hide the fact it was her who asked? Baffling.

Yes it is.
If its the only day you get to rest and recharge then 8 am is early.
It just is and you are incorrect.
I would most definately say it to the running club. They should at least rotate their stops so no one is being consistently annoyed.
Its very inconsiderate.

You can ask but I’m not sure it’s that early. I live near a shop and get loads of people having early chats outside my window and even a couple having a huge row at 3.30 sat morning. If it’s always at that time every week u are ok to ask I think

Perfectly reasonable to ask and suggest the alternatives, I can’t see why they’d be difficult about that (I’m saying this as a toddler mum who is involuntarily up at 5.30am on Sundays, although 8am feels like the middle of the day for me now, I realise that this is not for others and I always try to be considerate about noise).

Stopping in a place that is not someone's house, when it is a simple option and not out of their way, perfectly reasonable to ask. You I hope would be supportive of the run club in general.

Even if you are up and about at that time.