While watching his videos, one of my pet peeves is that he always seems to run in highly trafficked roadways instead of on sidewalks, when sidewalks are available. With the amount of distracted diving that goes on, I don't understand why some pedestrians take an additional risk of using roads when sidewalks are available.
While watching his videos, one of my pet peeves is that he always seems to run in highly trafficked roadways instead of on sidewalks, when sidewalks are available. With the amount of distracted diving that goes on, I don't understand why some pedestrians take an additional risk of using roads when sidewalks are available.
Sidewalks are made out of concrete. Concrete is hard and bad for your knees. If you would run more you would know that.
While watching his videos, one of my pet peeves is that he always seems to run in highly trafficked roadways instead of on sidewalks, when sidewalks are available. With the amount of distracted diving that goes on, I don't understand why some pedestrians take an additional risk of using roads when sidewalks are available.
Sidewalks are made out of concrete. Concrete is hard and bad for your knees. If you would run more you would know that.
Also sidewalks are basically unrunnable. They’re poorly maintained, usually not flat and have divets and other issues. When it’s dark is very unsafe to run on sidewalks since you can’t see well. No idea why America makes sidewalks instead of additional roadways with a bike and walk lane
If you run against traffic you are able to quickly get out of the way and avoid oncoming traffic as you see them. Also at intersections it gives you an extra fraction of a second to react to traffic that may otherwise not be paying attention to the possibility of a pedestrian. In 40 years of running I have been hit free and those extra fractions of a second have come in handy at times.
I do try my best to run on bike paths and trails but sometimes running on streets/sidewalks is inevitable.