To whoever was running Key Bridge & Roosevelt Island 9:30 a.m. today:

No one in the real world uses the term "hobby jogger."

What do you expect? Dude was wearing a Pacers ball cap.

0/10 wrote:

No one in the real world uses the term "hobby jogger."

Actually people who frequent letsrun do.

I would have dropped you, even if it meant screwing up my workouts for the next couple of days.

Would it have hurt you to say "hey, could I run with you guys?" I am not justifying the way they spoke to you (if you are not a troll), but running up behind someone and staying there is just creepy.

MVRunner wrote:

We runners need to stick together and encourage each other

No, maybe you need to be encouraged and stuck together with. We don't care about your neediness and would rather just be left alone to do our own thing.

5 meters behind = stalker.

I would've punched you in the face if you lurked that close to me for an extended period of time.

fred wrote:

I would have dropped you, even if it meant screwing up my workouts for the next couple of days.

This.

MVRunner wrote:

But I don't deserve your verbal abuse.

True.

You deserved a sucker punch.

Do americans even know how far 5 meters is?

No, but we have braces at our disposal and floss.

I must admit, if I was on a run with a buddy and some random guy decided to speed up and latch on to the back of us without saying anything, I would consider him some combination of joker/creeper as well.

That's like having lunch or a coffee with a friend at a 4 person table and some random guy decides to sit at one of the empty seats without saying anything because they were curious what kind of coffee you were drinking. That's weird and unwelcomed regardless of whether he "beared no ill will" or weren't "disrupting our lunch in the slightest."

Murica101 wrote:

No, but we have braces at our disposal and floss.

How about jokes? Do you have any original ones?

DC Area Runner wrote:

0/10 wrote:

No one in the real world uses the term "hobby jogger."

Actually people who frequent letsrun do.

Even people that don't frequent letsrun do. I hear that sh¡t a lot.

In my defense, I didn't really have the opportunity to politely ask to join them. As soon as they saw that I was picking up the pace, they starting really hauling, trying to break me. And when they realized after a mile that they couldn't easily break me (i.e., when I passed them back) the hat-wearing guy started yelling and swearing at me, calling me a joker and hobby-jogger. It was like he was insulted that anyone had the temerity to resist getting broken by him.

By way of contrast: when I was a college runner, we occasionally had local high school kids latch on to our pack during training runs. We thought it was great. The idea that we would yell at them and call them jokers or hobby-joggers would have been absurd.

Yes your accent makes me lol and yur mother. And look at those genormous teeth OHMY!

Actually, you deserved his ORAL abuse. Verbal means words - can be written or spoken. So the abuse he exacted on you was oral abuse. Now, if he had written you a nasty note afterwards - that would be verbal abuse.

You people are f'ed up. What's wrong with letting someone join you for your workout. If you want to be left alone, move to some rural armpit and run out in the middle of nowhere. Running in populated areas with lots of runners, it's only a matter of time before your workout is 'interruped' by someone running a similar pace. Why can't we all just get along?

Call The Cops wrote:

5 meters behind = stalker.

I would've punched you in the face if you lurked that close to me for an extended period of time.

Oooh a tough guy, eh? I'm sure you Montgomery Burns-like distance guys can really pack wallop!