Guy tried to trip me while running - what is the best way to handle it?

Try to step down really hard on his leg/foot

What a couple of dicks. I feel you bro. I would have a hard time not raging.

the police?? lol they've been defunded. call a social worker bro

You should have called your Mom!

ukathleticscoach wrote:

You should have called your Mom!

you mean the other guys mom (insert eggplant emoji here)

rtherth wrote:

Today I was running at a good clip on a paved path through a park. There were a number of people around and there were these two 20 something guys that were walking from the park on to the path. The one guy grins and suddenly sticks out his foot to trip me. I kind of swerve , give him a dirty lock and just keep going. The guys just laughed.

If he would have tripped me I would have fallen hard. I could have been injured. If I would have tripped what is the best way to handle the situation? I think what I would have done was to have a person nearby call the police and I would have filed a police report. Anyone who would trip a runner needs to accountable. Right?

Someone once elbowed me in the chest as I passed him on the inside lane of a local school track. I was reversing my direction on each repeat for injury prevention. The clockwise laps apparently bothered his rule-oriented personality.

I was on the line separating lanes one and two when he struck me.

I stopped and told him that if he touched me again, I would put him on the ground.

He actually apologized.

The trick with the above approach is that you have to actually mean it when you threaten.

I was very proud of my restraint that day. Remember kids, once a fight starts you can end up in jail even if you are technically in the right.

You should start doing a real sport, so you could beat him up. Can't do that with your noodle arms, though.

You clearly weren’t social distancing sufficiently for COVID-19 purposes. If you were 6 ft away, the guy would have to be pretty tall to trip you from that distance.

smash the head into him

truthful words. just ankle, not the foot itself. he'd be in insane pain and you're not at fault. 'ooo din c ya m8, y u stikk it dere?'

or when they're not looking anymore stop, walk up close and spit then dash. it's very humiliating to be spit on, especially for r3tards that feel superior like these trash

THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE IS FOR REAL G's ONLY

run away, sneak up from behind to punch or kick them. even more effective, but requires much more of you, is if you push them half from the side half from the back (45⁰ angle) with a run up.

"You clearly weren’t social distancing sufficiently for COVID-19 purposes. "

These two numskulls were the one's who weren't distancing. They were together, like feet apart, when they came walking on the paved path right in front of me. They could have and should have watched their distance.

Thanks for the replies. I got some good laughs out of them.

I remember in HS our top 3200 runner got into a shoving fight w/ another runner in the middle of the 3200 in a duel meet. Not sure either was DQed but it was crazy to witness.

run past them again and knock his teeth out with your elbow, i tried that once and failed by hitting his throat. he was squeaking like a pig.

If you drove the heel of your hand upward as hard and fast as you can into the underside of his chin you could break his neck and if you miss you'll probably catch him in the nose and drive that bone into his skull. Just be sure to use your speed.

You sound naive. Young guys/teenagers/kids do things like that. People have thrown bottles at me, spit at me, swerved their vehicles at me, yelled all kinds of things at me while running. I've been nearly run over once or twice. The point I'm trying to make is usually you can see those situations coming if you pay attention. If you don't nothing might happen or you might end up injure or even in the hospital.

Crazy. Did the guy explain why he hit you? Why did he even give a sh#t what direction you were running as long as you weren't impeding him.

"usually you can see those situations coming if you pay attention. "

I was paying attention. It happened so fast and I was able to avoid it. My questions is what to do about it after the fact if you don't avoid it. I was a young guy once and I can tell you I would never, ever do that to a runner or anyone. None of my friends would either. In fact it would never cross our minds. The kind of people that would do that need to be held accountable in a court of law or taken for psychiatric evaluation.

in other words, they scared you to death and you're still trembling

not saying your points are incorrect, but a REAL G wouldn't be whining, they'd have handled it HARD

Don't worry about it. Just come on here and bully and threaten posters using anonymous handles when something like that happens. You'll soon feel better about yourself. It works for most of the scrawny 9" bicep distance runners here.