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.

I think you may have wanted to quote @LondonLass2026, as I was?

Contact them. They quite possibly haven’t thought about it.

For fucks sake, there's always dicks like you who pipe up with this shit on threads about getting woken up in the morning. It may not be early to you, but it is for some people who may have went to bed later than you.

@Welshmum2010 whenever my local parkrun gets re-routed I sometimes get woken up at 9am on a Saturday & Sunday. I message the organiser anytime they make unreasonable noise. I'm not talking about normal parkrun noise, I mean when you get a volunteer standing outside my bedroom window who decides to "WHOOP" really loudly at every single fucking runner. The organiser is always very apologetic and then it doesn't happen again for a long time.

For those people who say 9am isn't early - it is when you've worked a late shift and only been able to go to bed at 3am.

Absolutely ask them to move - they won't know there is a problem if you don't tell them. Do it politely and positively and suggest the alternatives.

8am IS the crack of dawn on a Sunday!

For those people who say 9am isn't early - it is when you've worked a late shift and only been able to go to bed at 3am.

Or when you’ve been out on the piss all night and just got into bed.

They are rude and inconsiderate. I'd be furious too.

I disagree
8am is early on a Sunday.
I wouldn't like this outside my window.
They probably don't even realize how loud they are - you know what it's like when you're in a group and runners are generally excitable people.

I think you are within your rights next Sunday to pop outside and point out the problem with the group leader (discreetly).

Suggest the 2 stopping points that you have mentioned.

It would then be really arsey behaviour if they don't move on.

Good luck
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I hope they'll change the location but they've not shown much consideration so far by picking the current spot

Agree with the majority- 8am is too early for a group to regularly congregate outside of someone’s house and make noise although doubt you have any particular legal remedy.

I would also proceed on the basis that they are reasonable people who haven’t realised they are disturbing you so I would send a friendly email along the lines of “Hi, I live at number 3 (the house on the corner) and your group congregates outside at 8am every Sunday which is disturbing my much needed Sunday morning sleep. I’d be really grateful if you could move the regular stop to x or x. Thanks so much and good luck with the running “

Vast majority of running clubs (and people in general) would be straight back with so sorry to have disturbed you, of course we’ll move. If they don’t you might have to confront them in your pjs and make your point slightly more forcefully.

Cheeky fuckers

We were asked to move our parkrun start as people could hear (at 9 on a Sat) we would move if there was an option, most runners are nice enough people and someone who sets up a free group is probably super nice, just haven't heard your perspective. If we could move and fit the course requirements we could, but we can't - sounds like your lot could, I suspect they will.

I'd definitely ask.
I have neighbours who have young children so are up from 6am - they bang around the house, kids running about etc. Always wakes me and my kids up but I don't say anything as I had young kids once (mine are now 11 and 15)
What does bug me, however is when they stand on their drive directly outside my window/my sons window and start shouting hellos and using hoses/car hoovers at 7.40am.
It's so unnecessary.
I come home from work at 11pm sometimes so am awake but wouldn't dream of mowing my lawn, or chatting on my phone outside their house!
Grrr. Sorry, I've added my mini rant and no, YANU!

What's "nice enough" about behaving as if they are the centre of the universe outside someone's house?

I'm surprised this running group lack the common sense and decency to realise that they might be causing a disturbance.

Cycling groups I wouldn't be so surprised at...

(I belong to both running and cycling groups)

It’s probably best mentioned face to face. I’d go out in my pjs and ask them in a friendly even joking way if they wouldn’t mind moving their meeting place as you could do with a lie in. I’d poke a bit of fun at myself too to try and win them round. If they are decent sorts they will - if they aren’t you risk them turning up earlier and making even more racket!
Good luck.

even if it was just a 'you' (as in OP) problem, so what? If someone ran you over that would presumably be a 'you' problem but you'd be entitled to be unhappy about it!

They have the option to make it a nobody's problem, so they should.

Also if you had read the OP properly, they literally run through the fields after their exercise stop. If it's safe enough to run in, it's safe enough to stretch in!

Oh god no. Don’t do this. I cringed inside out reading that! So officious.

You might also want to have a read up on gdpr.

OP do you have the organisers phone number. I’d be tempted to ring him and have A chat. It’s a perfectly reasonable request.

I doubt they think they are the centre of the universe, seems a bit of leap. If it’s a group that’s grown rapidly it’s very possible they just haven’t realised how loud they are being, people in groups often don’t - be that in a restaurant, on a train or doing sports etc. I know I’ve both been annoyed at loud groups in various situations and have also probably been guilty of annoying other people as part of one.

They're not teenagers or children who don't know any better. They are a group of adults, at least one of them must have enough nous to grasp that it's best to gather away from other people who may be sleeping or resting inside or just preferring to not be the rallying spot for a large crowd. It's not as if a park or a carpark etc is non-existant as opposed to gathering on a residential street.

8 is definitely early on a Sunday for shouting and chatting outside your house. 15 people will make a lot of noise. That’s very inconsiderate and I wonder why they haven’t thought about it.

so yes definitely ask.

It is on a Sunday. HTH.

I’m another one that doesn’t think 8am is that early but you could ask them and see what they say.

I wouldn't ask them, rather say "your regular 8am meeting outside my home on a Sunday is waking me up, please stop somewhere where you won't disturb others".
I wouldn't want to be engaging in any sort of debate with them.

Definitely don’t do this 🤣

They're probably completely oblivious and haven't realised how much noise they make or that it would be a nuisance.

I am losely involved in three running clubs, and all the organisers are community minded people who would make alternative arrangements like a shot, if they were made aware.