AITA running clockwise on lane 2 after sunset?

Are you reading comprehension deficited? Who can’t even read and quote a small sentence correctly? The technology is called cut-and-paste. Very modern, very beautiful technology.

If you get close enough eventually you will learn it the hard way. Step away from the keyboard....

It's you.

Doesn't matter if your watch is set to lane 2. Mine is typically set to lane 4, regardless of which direction I'm running. If I need to, I swing wide for the 30 meters or so that it takes to give someone else some comfortable space as I go by; that's not going to screw with your watch enough to matter. No one wants you in an adjacent lane, even if you're going the same direction, so move over for a little bit.

YTA.

Track direction is always counter-clockwise unless posted otherwise. Some tracks (mostly indoor) will alternate directions during public hours, but this is posted VERY explicitly.

For a random outdoor track, you should run counter-clockwise if you are in an inner lane (1-3). If you would like to run clockwise, you should run on the infield or the outermost lane if there is someone else there. This is what I do if I end up doing my cool-down on the track or have a longer rest. In general during track use, you should always yield/give priority to people who are doing workouts.

It is dangerous and stressful for the person running in lane 1 (probably doing a workout), especially if it is dark.

Anytime I wonder whether this board is too dorky and tainted with autism spectrum for me, up pops a handy reminder thread like this one.

Your def are a jerk for doing this... I would say the other guy is too...

I have been in a similar situation: If you are the only one running on the track than I see no issue running clockwise. I have done this a few times during marathon workouts (12-13 mile workouts).. but the moment someone else is running in lanes 1-3 I switch directions. one time a daughter and mother were walking in lane 1.. I didn't bother to switch directions since it was posted at the entrance that walking should happen in 4-6 (small public track). the daughter yelled at me despite me giving them plenty of space and moving out to lane 2 to pass... was I a bit of a jerk: yes and I knew it, but was a breaking the parks rules for the track: no. were they being a jerk: yes were they breaking park rules: yes.. in this scenario I feel like I was by far the more reasonable. I didn't say anything just continued on my day.. They drove off in their landrover after I had done maybe 4 miles of a 13 mile workout.

This story would be even funnier if it was like a concrete track or something. Everyone getting aggro and it’s a 268m concrete track with plants growing in the cracks in the lanes.