That one friend...

How evil of him. Tell him “I will never say yes to running with you. You are dead to me.” and he’ll stop bothering you.

If you take weekends off from running you are not a serious runner and do not belong on this site

First Id ask yourself why a friend asking if you're free for a few hours to run annoys you. Either you say: "Sure I'm free or I cant. I have plans or I'm busy. Rain check." Or you could proactively plan your life and talk to your friend and tell him life's getting busy and schedule days you feel like you might want to run with him and ask him if he's free those days bc your weekends are filling up.

This doesn't bother me at all, especially if it is a long run. It only bothers me when the friend doesn't run my pace exactly or wants to run one of his crappy loops instead of my finely tuned perfect loops.

I got a runner friend like this but the problem is they're much slower. I don't mind an easy recovery day but a long run weekend I don't always want to slog with them plus it takes so gd long. They also live in another city away and logistics to meet can be a nightmare. It never made any sense. I felt bad always coming up with an excuse as to why not but then I noticed they stopped asking so yay.

You have friends? What are you doing here?

I have a friend like that too except he never actually wants to run. He just wants to smoke crack and post on Letsrun. I think we all know this guy.

You could ghost him, but then he’s potentially an enemy. If you’re not sure, just level with him.

lol this site is owned and moderated by boomers, you seriously think they've gone for a run in the past 20 years? The last pic I saw of weldon shows he's like 50lbs overweight

What do you imagine a "boomer" is--anyone older than you? The Brojos are solidly in the middle of Gen X.

Based solely on what you wrote, I have no idea why he, or anyone, would ever want to run with you.

They look like they're well into their 60s, isn't that boomer territory?

Not as much as I hate wasting my energy reading these dumb complaint type threads.

How'd you even get friends in the first place?

I had a similar one. He would constantly ask me to come over and tag team his mother with him. What are you gonna do though turn down a super hot 97 year old woman!

When I was working I used to run the exact same 8 mile run every day at lunch. Never missed. This dude that lived nearby knew I liked to run this route and he'd text me " You runnin' today? What time?" And then more than half the time he'd be like 5 or 10 minutes late and I'd be standing around waiting for him wondering if he's coming. Got tired of that sheet and told him "I run every weekday at 11:30AM at this spot. You're either here or you're not." Sometimes he'd be there sometimes he wouldn't. Never gave it a thought after that.

I've never had a running friend. Feel cheated in life!

The nerve of that guy! What a pathetic little parasite.

3/10 since some responses took this seriously