Men yelling things while out running

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I think I am just here to rant 🙈. Out running recently and a man hailed me down as if he wanted to talk to me, so much that I took my headphones out and said ‘pardon?!’. He then yells ‘you’ll put all that weight back on when you go clubbing!!’. Another time I was out running and a man walked out of a bush doing up his flies, he’d just gone for a wee. Didn’t even look embarrassed. Why are they so horrible? Why did that man have to yell that to me? I can’t imagine a women ever stopping a man out running and shouting comments about his weight or fitness.

Yes, I was alone. I contemplated going a different way but I thought if he were ill-intentioned he'd probably still follow me anyway! I think he didn't even consider it weird tbh.

Its terrible. Ive been flashed twice and once noticed a man hiding behind a tree peeking out, seemingly waiting for me to go past. I made a quick change of direction but god knows what he was planning.

In my local area women rarely run alone anymore.

As there was a female runner murdered in broad daylight, very near where we live, a couple of years ago.

It definitely made me see that running alone on a country lane/in a park/forest is sadly not really safe.

One of the women here in my local area, set up a group for female runners, so we have someone to run with.

He might've been taking a tiddle lol.

Just ignore them - I don’t stop for anyone. Might seem rude to them but my safety and peace comes first and I don’t owe them anything.

Perhaps. Heaven forbid he waits like us women to go home and doesn’t urinate in public 🙄

In a similar vein to @Createanewname , I solo hike out in the hills. I’m always hyper aware of who is about. There are a few points on my favourite routes where a few trails and popular long distance routes converge. I remember about midday spotting a bloke walking on his own and hung back to see what route he was taking, turned out to be one that crosses and merges a few times with the one I was planning to do.

at about 6pm we met as the routes converged for a couple of miles. We got chatting and he said he’d hardly seen anyone all day. Without thinking, I said, yeah, I saw you up on Goats Nab (fictional names here) at 12:15, and you took the northern branch of the Downland Way, I saw you again in Pines Valley section and thought we might catch up here. Weren’t you wearing a Green hat earlier?

and he kind of paused, and you could see him thinking- he said, ‘I didn’t see you at all’ …no mate. I made damn sure you didn’t.

But, interestingly, he had a think, and he got it. And we had a chat about the different way we each experienced walking solo for him, total freedom to switch off. For me. Very much Less so.