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Apr 2016
12:42pm, 6 Apr 2016
101 posts
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UsedToRunaBit
During my run commutes I come across runners and pedestrians, who steadfastly refuse to budge from their chosen route if we are coming towards each other. So unless I run around them or move, we are smashing into each other.
What do you do, stay or move? I've taken the approach life is waaay to short to get aggrieved by any of it, but interested to see how others handle this.
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Apr 2016
12:49pm, 6 Apr 2016
25,452 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
I thought this was going to be a gentlemen's question, equivalent to "how do you dress, sir?" I did wonder what smash might mean.
I spot the side they are on from a distance and go to the other side. If they are in the middle, I try to make it clear which side I am on. I make eye contact early if poss. But if there are 2 or 3 of them and they're chatting, then sometimes I find I'm at risk of being mown down. Not often though.  G
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Apr 2016
12:53pm, 6 Apr 2016
5,609 posts
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CStar
I keep left as far as possible unless they are being particularly thick
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Apr 2016
12:56pm, 6 Apr 2016
325 posts
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tonyp2604
What he (HappyG(rrr) ) said.
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Apr 2016
12:57pm, 6 Apr 2016
1,371 posts
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Surrey Phil
Being British, most people tend to pass to the the left if in any doubt.
As I walk quite quickly, it gets my back up meandering around other pedestrians who are 'on another planet' and think they own the pavement or that no-one else is likely to be there. However, I prefer to run early in the morning and, apart from dog walkers and the odd paperboy/girl, I do have the pavement to myself.
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Apr 2016
12:57pm, 6 Apr 2016
1,473 posts
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Fitz
I try to keep to the left, if the person coming the other way does the same we're all good, if not I do a lot of tutting. Treat it like a road, see. Stay left, except when overtaking. Obvz this needs to be "stay right" when running in Foreignland.
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Apr 2016
12:58pm, 6 Apr 2016
7,149 posts
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Badger
I'll just swerve around them. Amazing the number of people who will 'make way' for you by stepping from the centre of the path to the side you're on.
Still better than the ones who walk three abreast and think anyone else should just step into the traffic so they can have the whole path to themselves. I think they'd try to body check you off the treadmill if you met them in the gym.
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Apr 2016
12:58pm, 6 Apr 2016
9,880 posts
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Bazoaxe
This is one of my pet hates, often people at bus stops who watch you approach from a long way off but refuse to give you space. Often forcing you into the road, when their bus could be approaching from behind.
I would normally stick to the left, given its the driving side, but recently on the canal path I have come across people who doggedly stick to the right and expect me to move which I find odd, although it usually is me who blinks first.
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Apr 2016
1:00pm, 6 Apr 2016
9,881 posts
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Bazoaxe
oh, and the people walking two abreast on a narrow path, one spots you and moves behind their companion, only for their companion to then move over and fill the gap.
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Apr 2016
1:01pm, 6 Apr 2016
17,136 posts
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fetcheveryone
I hide in the bushes until they've gone past.
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