What to do when idiots won't get off of the track

you should have got your coach to talk to their instructor. They are following whatever directions they were given.

STANDING in lanes 1 and 2 is unacceptable. I don't care who you are. You deserve to get run over.

i was just starting to warm up on the track and a soccer team was just finishing practice and their coach had them gather in a group. As I was passing them, I heard the coach lecturing them to stay off the track when runners are using it. What do they do when they leave the track? They walk down the track taking up most of the lanes directly in front of me as I'm running towards them.

fggfgfgf wrote:

i was just starting to warm up on the track and a soccer team was just finishing practice and their coach had them gather in a group. As I was passing them, I heard the coach lecturing them to stay off the track when runners are using it. What do they do when they leave the track? They walk down the track taking up most of the lanes directly in front of me as I'm running towards them.

This is a good "teaching moment". Run them over. They will get the idea.

I have no tolerance for morons. Sorry.

drunk runner. wrote:

STANDING in lanes 1 and 2 is unacceptable. I don't care who you are. You deserve to get run over.

My track, you have to dodge soccer players doing passing drills in lanes 1 and 2. With a wide open field too.

Other times, dog walkers and people riding bikes.

Other times, parents cheering for their soccer runts.

There just aren't enough runners in the community.

there is no track etiquette wrote:

drunk runner. wrote:

STANDING in lanes 1 and 2 is unacceptable. I don't care who you are. You deserve to get run over.

My track, you have to dodge soccer players doing passing drills in lanes 1 and 2. With a wide open field too.

Other times, dog walkers and people riding bikes.

Other times, parents cheering for their soccer runts.

There just aren't enough runners in the community.

Yep. It doesn't matter if the lane I pick for 400s is open the whole time I'm warming up. When I getting going on the first interval, some schmuck is in my lane, every time.

I go around them.

SWAZ wrote:At this point our number two runner grabbed one of the JROTC members and threw him into his comrades, pushing them all off of the track. Is this what we should have done?

This stuff does happen. There were about 7 JROTC guys doing the same thing to my teammate (he was only a number 4 runner)and me. I kicked into the fastest sprint and went right into the biggest guy purposefully. He went down like a house of cards. Through a series of roundhouse kicks, strikes to the neck and face we took down the whole group. I did have to save my little buddy at one point but he did pretty good too.They won't bother anyone again. So yes this stuff does happen.

Not this crap again wrote:

SWAZ wrote:At this point our number two runner grabbed one of the JROTC members and threw him into his comrades, pushing them all off of the track. Is this what we should have done?

Ya, I'm sure this happened.

SWAZ wrote:

The worst among them were the JROTC members.

What you need to do is go find the JROTC parade ground and stand around on it getting in the way.

Did you ever stop to think that people were intentionally blocking your lanes to f@&k with you? And please stop talking tough about running somebody over. A 14 year old girl would cause you great bodily harm if you tried to run her over.

That's not true. A 14 yr. old year girl once gave me attitude, tried to cause me bodily harm as you say, but I scared her away.....and she was a field hockey player too!

Watch out nerds wrote:

Did you ever stop to think that people were intentionally blocking your lanes to f@&k with you? And please stop talking tough about running somebody over. A 14 year old girl would cause you great bodily harm if you tried to run her over.

BillyJack wrote:

This stuff does happen.

Really? A guy picked up another grown person and threw him into a group of four people knocking them all off the track?

a. that only happens in cartoons

b. if it did happen, the guy should quit XC and set a world record in the shot putt. Either that or bowling.

c. if they were huddled so close that one bump could knock them all off together, seems like they wouldn't be taking up much room and you could easily go around them.

But go ahead and continue with the millionth LRC thread on "oh noes there are other people on the track and they're in my way".

Not this crap again wrote:

BillyJack wrote:

This stuff does happen.

Really? A guy picked up another grown person and threw him into a group of four people knocking them all off the track?

a. that only happens in cartoons

b. if it did happen, the guy should quit XC and set a world record in the shot putt. Either that or bowling.

c. if they were huddled so close that one bump could knock them all off together, seems like they wouldn't be taking up much room and you could easily go around them.

But go ahead and continue with the millionth LRC thread on "oh noes there are other people on the track and they're in my way".

Reread his post, then slap yourself for being this gullible.

Yeah. Yeah. That sounds like a really good idea. I think I'll fantacize about having done that and then brag to my LRC BFsF about what a tough guy, socially clueless person I am.

Yeah.

Hrothgar wrote:

Reread his post, then slap yourself for being this gullible.

Hey, I was really anxious to make my cartoon/shot putt/bowling joke.

Yes, I just kinda meant it as a bit humorous satire to the thread.AKA Billy Jack

Hrothgar wrote:

Not this crap again wrote:

Really? A guy picked up another grown person and threw him into a group of four people knocking them all off the track?

a. that only happens in cartoons

b. if it did happen, the guy should quit XC and set a world record in the shot putt. Either that or bowling.

c. if they were huddled so close that one bump could knock them all off together, seems like they wouldn't be taking up much room and you could easily go around them.

But go ahead and continue with the millionth LRC thread on "oh noes there are other people on the track and they're in my way".

Reread his post, then slap yourself for being this gullible.

By all means, report them on LRC.

I was running a 5k time trial at ELAC on a weekend. There were some cheerleaders spread across the middle of the home stretch when I was warming up, then they moved to the infield. I started my time trial and about 4 laps in a female in her 20's was jogging on the outside of lane 1 by the lane line, wearing headphones. I whizzed past, not close to her and kept going.

About a lap to go I was coming down the stretch and a campus security guy was down at the finish line, blocking the track. As I was charging toward him he motioned for me to stop, which I had to do, gasping for breathe and trying to not jar my system too much. He said I was terrorizing the track and had to leave, then he wouldn't even talk to me, just said to get out or he was going to arrest me, so I left.

That was the only time that happened out of maybe thousands of times running on a track.

The strange thing is that I was running way around people with plenty of room to spare, and they were getting in my way, when they shouldn't even have been there.

People can be strange, but they must be very unhappy people to be like that.