UK male joggers warned over approaching women from behind

This is beyond parody.

I don't mind being approached

Hmm...

I think shouting "behind you" when passing women is probably more startling than just running past. Seems completely unnecessary.

I always stop for lonely women and ask them out for coffee. behind you is a better phrase to use before the "act".

I never assume anyone is a woman anymore.

You know who to blame for this. I'm not going to say it because I'll be banned.

I routinely startle women on the path I run on. Nearly 100% of the time it is during daylight hours and there aren't many places on the path where you are not within sight of another runner/walker/cyclist. Most of the time, the problem is headphones. It seems like almost every woman (and man) under the age 40 is wearing headphones so it wouldn't make any difference if I gave a verbal warning. I run past people who seem to be talking to themselves and then I realize that they have one of those cellphone ear pieces in and are talking on the phone. If other people get startled when I pass I don't care because it is usually their fault for being so out of touch with their surroundings.

Thanks, Obama

Not sure this is a big deal. I ride my bike on multi-use paths and always announce when I'm passing, whether it's a bike, runner, or walker. Most people do the same and it's just for everyone's awareness and safety.

I second this observation. If you are oblivious to the world with your quite often, giant, headphones don't act startled when someone squeezes by you on a narrow path/trail. Idiots.

“Our strength”?

Getting startled is the price people have to pay for not paying attention and walking around with their head buried in their phone with airpods in. Anyone who is actually alert (which IMO is your responsibility to yourself and others as a pedestrian) can hear your footsteps long before you're near them.

Who? This is from England so it obviously can't be any American political party for example. Unless you're just an idiot?

I'm sick to death of joggers (particularly male) approaching suddenly from behind, or even from in front round narrow paths in woods. They have no perception of the effect on a lone woman. They make me jump out of my skin and sometimes even shout in fear. This, in turn, has affected my dog, who's picked up on my fright and now sees all joggers as a threat and barks and jumps around them, for which I get an ear-bashing. The result is I now have to muzzle her, for fear her reactive behaviour could get worse. Thanks a bundle, joggers. I have to ask 'would you run up at speed like this behind a horse?'. Good luck with that.

And when you pass them they gasp with fear. They are in a world of their own and completely oblivious to the fact that they aren't the only ones using the path.

What exactly are people objecting to here? Saying something like "excuse me" is so traumatizing?

Sheesh, you people are snowflakes!

There’s no need to do anything.