re: #105 Blind Frog Belly White

People who don’t run, or ride, often are not aware of these issues and just wonder why runners and cyclists can’t just go someplace else. Drivers want cyclists to ride in the gutter pan, which is full of parked cars, leaves, broken glass, etc. Or they want you to take the ‘bike path’, which is a misnomer, because it’s usually full of dawdling families out for a stroll, novice rollerbladers trying not to land on their asses, and people who run or walk with ear buds and don’t hear you shouting

I put most of my miles in on the local multi-use path. Weekends are awful. The weekday users are at least a generally respectful crowd that tries to acknowledge each other and follow basic rules (the county park that it cuts through excepted, because you get a lot of little old ladies out for a stroll there).

For my part, I run with only one earbud and wear it on my right, and keep as far to the right as I can, unless passing a slower pedestrian. Anyone calls out an on your left, I’ll raise a hand to show that I heard them and are aware of their presence. I get just as irate (if not more so) with people who are being completely oblivious to their surroundings.

In general, I run under the “don’t be a dick” rule in shared spaces. A lot of people fail at this lesson in general, so it’s not surprising that they fail it here too.