Is it appropriate to run in a cemetery?

I’ve done it many times, but always feels a little weird. Came across a funeral once while running shirtless, so I turned around. Least I could do.

don't play zombie outbreak in a cemetery, where the runner starts in the middle and a hundred other people play the dead who rise up and try to catch the runner.

The "zombies" have to walk and the runner can run, is the rule. It would be interesting to see if the runner could escape. But don't do it, the cemetery keepers wouldn't like it.

I did a dusk workout at Petersburg Battlefield Park when I was stationed at Ft. Lee back in ‘82 and it felt so weird, dressed in some skimpy, shorts and singlet and colorful training shoes , running where ragged, starved, diseased,blown apart soldiers at one time were fighting for their lives.

i never did it again

Ed Whitlock trained in a cemetery and achieved tremendous success.

I think it’s fine. Plus cemeteries take up a ton of space and people rarely visit them.

It's probably fine. I ran 100 mile weeks in a cemetery in NH one very snowy winter because they plowed the paths all the time.

In high school we used to drive out to an old civil war battlefield turned cemetery and run mile repeats on the weekends lol. It was pretty odd when people with confederate flag themed purses and backpacks would show up to just look at gravestones at 8 AM. Anyway idk I wouldn't overthink it.

Was at Auschwitz once. Ran back to join my group after getting held back for something. The guards didn't like it at all- shut me down- it was disrespectful. I get it, my mistake, learned my lesson.

Not that anyone would train inside there, but I realized there are places you shouldn't run and I wouldn't run in a cemetery either out of respect.

I kind of feel like by living, we honor the dead and therefore it is okay

Ed Whitlock ran around it for 3 hours every day. It's fine.

I've done loads and loads of runs in cemeteries and it's been fine. Just steer clear of any burials. But I haven't run in one for years now. There's a great one maybe a mile from my house and years ago dog owners decided it was a great place to let their dogs run free. I don't know why that's allowed, dogs like to dig up bones. But if it's okay for dogs to run free in a cemetery I don't see why it wouldn't be okay for people to do it.

is he buried? Someone should pilgrim-run through his cemetery

I came across one while running shirtless too and in response promptly sacrificed a goat over a wood fire to the satanic overlords while maniacally chanting spell-casting mantras from the netherworlds. Least I could do.

No it's not appropriate.

It reminds me of a funeral I was at where the grandpa's son in law drunkenly blurted out "he would want us to go fishin'" as the US Army World War II veteran was given his funeral. This grandpa and his late wife before him had taken me in as an "adopted grandchild" and that is what he got?

That is what running through a cemetery reminds me of.

Not a good idea - you risk becoming dead tired. 😯....😆