to want to enjoy a run without some bloke making an inane comment?

[MissM]

Virtually every time I go for a run some bloke makes a comment. Not a 'phoaaarrr get them out love'-type comment, but just a stupid, pointless, inane, meaningless comment. Recently it's been 'knees up knees up', 'run run run', 'nearly there keep going' and tonight it was 'keep up the good work'. Why? If I was a bloke running would blokes say stupid things to me? And what am I supposed to do? Smile? Laugh? Comment back? Do they carry on with their day thinking 'oo, that's better, I really told that that running girl'? Seriously, I'd love to know their motivation.

Ha YANBU. I really hate it when strangers comments (unless they're saying 'you are so kind/bee-yoo-ti-ful' etc). I have a naturally grumpy face, like the Queen, so used to get a lot of 'cheer up love it might never happen'. Yes it will happen to YOU if you don't shut up

ha ha! I know what you mean. I try and take it as enouragement and run fast to get away from them. Tonight I had a horrible letchy man asking me what the park was called. What sort of a chat up line is that?!

I quite like it. I only get comments when I run in the park - never round the local roads and tbh I find the 'keep going' type of things helps a bit when I'm getting to he end of a longish run. I get fairly equal comments from men and women though, maybe thats the difference.

The horn beebing gets to me. Because then you also have to try and run whilst not showing them that you nearly jumped out of your bloody skin.

If they aren't saying something grubby they probably just mean well. I know it's irritating though, but they are attempting to be encouraging (while secretly wishing they were as fit as you).

Oh I feel your pain. This used to happen to me every time I went for a run. I remember telling a male friend that at least 50% of men I passed when out running seemed to feel compelled to make some kind of comment to me - he didn't believe me but all the women there agreed. It is very annoying.

What's worked for me is moving. Where I run now, runners are so common that the inane blokes must get sick of themselves and shut up. Occasionally I will get a 'good morning'.

yanbu. it is the bane of the female jogger. i usually ignore it. sometimes give the finger if it's a lewd comment or tell them to f off.

The hornblowing riles me most - other female runners just look sympathetic or in equal pain or smile knowingly - males tend to of late say "it will be worht it inthe end" it makes me want to run back and ask them what the feck they mean in an aggresive manner but i never have the energy too and probably wouldnt be able to speask for gasping anyway.

I don't run. In my younger days I ran for a bus once, past the front of a pub full of men and got a resounding round of applause from a large number of them. I was 15, big chested and bloody mortified. Hence why I don't run now.

I wear a tshirt that says 'GET LOST' across my chest, I found it in the charity ahop, it stinks but means I can tell who is watching my chest.
I get a lot of comments of the pensioners who live in teh sheltered accomodation near me, one man has a scooter and he always challenges me to a race, last tiem was 'I'll beat you this time you whippersnapper!' which had me laughing so much I nearly had to stop.

That I don't mind, and the ones that say 'keep it up' or 'keep going' with a smile are great, really nice, the ones that letch get a very grumpy 'fuck OFF' from me though.

Maybe it's cos I is fat I don't get many letchy comments though

Oh yes youremindme, the bloody beeping! It always makes me jump.

I don't think they are being encouraging tbh. I think they're just making a pointless comment for the sake of making a pointless comment. I'd almost prefer it if they did say 'nice tits' - at least they're making a comment for a reason (i.e. to compliment me on my cleavage)

chandellina I often give them the finger. And I once asked a group of blokes if they'd make the same comment (a lewd one this time) to their sister or mother. It shut them up instantly!

Btw I don't have much of a cleavage. I was being ironic innit.

I'd love to run past your pensioners JackBauer.

i am going to hunt out the same t shirt jackbauer . i do the race for life on saturday - i am naturally a miserable runner so will findit hard to smile through it for 5k.

Odd, I run loads and never hear a peep, other than from the occasional fellow running saying "hello". Maybe it's because I run in places where lots of runners go, so it's not unusual to see them?

I've always run where there are lots of runners so I'm not unusual. I just always get bloody comments! I could be charitable - maybe they are trying to be encouraging - but I'm just bored and bemused by it!

missm, it is crazy, isn't it? as if your reason for going out running is to make some new friends.

I run through some veyr dodgy estates and an industrial estate as well so I get a lot of builders/van drivers/scally types on my run.

One of a group of lads took the piss once as they were sitting in the bus stop as I staggered past saying 'Ooh, can't you go any faster'
I retorted 'I'm going faster than you, you lazy fucker'
which made him go red and got sniggers from the others.

Just keep saying to yourself, at least you are running, they aren't, so fuck them.

e t shirt, It was a vodka promotion of some sort I think, man it stinks though

I hate this - I sometimes get it when I'm pushing my dd in the pram which shits us both up!

I used to run alot (I gave up running for Lent) and yes, almost every time some stupid comment came my way. Completely do not understand it... it's like now, being heavily pregnant, random comments from random strangers. I feel ... I am going about my life innocently, why make a stupid comment?

I also get the 'cheer up love' comments which piss me off no end, because I have a face that if it is not occupied doing something looks a little stern and annoyed. So I could be walking around in a daze and someone tells me 'itmay never happen' or whatever. Just fuck off with your comments and mind your own business!

I'm a bloke, I run a lot, and I get the same amount of shit as anyone. It's not a gender thing, some people just think they are funny...

Do you Threaders? That's really interesting. Is it blokes that comment or women? And what kind of comments do you get? I'm genuinely interested as I did wonder whether it's just men thinking they're being funny when a woman runs past.

I hate the 'cheer up love' comment. Mainly because sometimes I really am feeling sad, and it's very presumptive of someone to make that comment when they don't know what you're really feeling and what might have happened to make you have a miserable/stressed/anxious/worried/neutral face on.

Jack I think you're brave to tell people to eff off. I always want to, but get nervous that they might give me a mouthful!

"If I was a bloke running would blokes say stupid things to me?"

Yup, I reckon they would. Perhaps they're just being friendly. Granted it can be irritating, though.

• Not that I go running, ever. I get comments for having such a delicious car - serves my right for not driving a Micra (nowt wrong with Micras, but you get my drift). Some people feel the need to comment on anything slightly unusual that they see on the street. Tis normal, imo, and for the most part just a sociable thing. Rather that than the stoney, eyes-musn't-meet-or-we-will-both-die thing you get in the City.

Dp runs every night and he moans every night about some comment made always from men.

Something like 'put the scarecrow legs away'.
Or he even had one strange man decide to go 'arghhhhhjhhh' to him .

at the "eyes-musn't-meet-or-we-will-both-die" City thing. 'Tis so true!