Which side of the road do you run on?

Well, He Does Have a Point wrote:

Michael Stember wrote:

The middle. If a truck comes by I can just fly over it.

http://www.mensracing.com/photos/2004/usaindoor04/usaindoor27.jpg

Let me guess, that photo was from a heat, then in the final he got lapped and blamed it on his shoe.

Story: me and a buddy were running one of those foreign countries where you drive on the left. We generally ran on the right, thinking that would make us safer, except on mountain curves where we just ran on the outside, figured any nut coming down the hill would be hugging the inside. Anyway, running on the right along one of the widest roads we'd been on, we came within less than a foot of being hit from behind... A truck had moved into the right lane to pass, and apparently wasn't going fast enough, because another car behind it moved over into the shoulder we were running on to pass it. Felt the wind from the side mirror right by my elbow, doing ~75kph.

Run towards the lights, run towards the lights!

Unless you're a thrill seeker or enjoy the anxiety of not knowing whether someone driving and talking on their cell phone and trying to hand their crying 2 year old her sippy cup is going to run you over.

Just don't run on major roads.

No -- this isn't asking too much. Especially if you are pushing children.

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Ditto that for me. Which West Michigan dirt roads do you run on?

Boy Wonder wrote:

Running with my 7-month-old in the baby jogger I run in the road facing traffic. Sidewalk is way too bumpy - I liken it to shaken baby syndrome. I get the occassional honk, but the difference is so dramatic I'll take it.

Boy Wonder, I would give up running if I couldn't do it without running with a baby jogger on the road. Please give this some thought. With the scary stuff that almost everyone has encountered while running on the roads you running on them with a baby jogger can't be a good idea.