Baby jogger on bike path?

you're running at 9mph with a baby jogger???? doubtful

you're probably putting yourself and your baby in much more danger by being a prick and insisting your too good for the running trail.....so just like you get pissed to avoid people on the running trail, bikers get pissed at you on the biking trail

I would say you're doing it wrong. Your logic about wheels would allow people with non-running strollers or wheelchairs, kids with scooters or skateboards, etc.

I'm not sure on the enforcement of the 10mph speed limit, but I'm guessing it is used as a tool for ticketing riders who are riding recklessly.

It's the BIKE path for a reason. It's for bikes. Get off the bike path. I'd yell at you too.

OP: I hate you for coming up with a situation where the damned cyclists are in the right. Get off of the bike path, ya moron.

And stop jostling your infant's brains around in one of those contraptions while you're at it. When your child is 12 and muttering nonsense, eating paste, and laughing at his own snot (and you're planning how to ship him off some special needs halfway house) you'll realize that taking a year or two off of running to sit back and enjoy time with your infant really would have been worth it.

The reason cyclists want you off the wheeled path is because they are selfish, not because you're in the wrong place.

You are on the right path when you're on the bike path, because you're pushing a wheeled vehicle. It would be WRONG of you to ride a bike or push a wheeled vehicle on the walking path. Also you are going along at 9mph, nearly the speed limit for the bike path.

Bicyclists are usually whimpy assholes and yell at anyone, even other cyclists. They have come up behind me and yelled at me when I've been running on the side of the road, then they quickly peddle off so I won't kick their butts.

There is not any harm you would do to any cyclists, unless they run into you, but you could incapacitate runners if you clipped their heels, for example.

Thank you for your replies. Are there any runners left on these boards? I just didn't want to start a thread titled, "let's hate on bikers for awhile." Well let's address a few points.

Just FYI that path is exactly where kids with scooters and skateboards go. Trying to pass a family with a two elementary aged kids on bikes and maybe a burley has got to be worse then me. The good bikers who are riding for a workout, just go out on the roads. And serious as a heart attack with my numbers. I get passed by honestly less than 10 bikers on any given morning.

And what's with the assumption that I'm a prick and consider myself too good. I weave through walkers and joggers all day long when I'm on my own. You could have just as well said, yeah fat walkers do tend to make a mess of good running paths. I feel your pain. Where is the love and support for a young father trying to keep off the weight by participating in an activity we supposedly love? The only love I felt was in way of a backhanded comment about my pace. If I wanted this reaction I would have just gone and posted directly on the letsbike.com forum.

Should I stay or should I go? wrote:

So, without fail, once a morning I get yelled at or passive aggressively addressed by some biker riding by me at 15-20 mph about how I'm on the wrong path. .

Next time throw a baby doll at the mean spirited biker (after he/she passes by) and accuse him/her of reckless biking.

I bet you run tris...

It's an interesting debate. I don't think there's a clear winning answer. However, bike paths are not meant for people to go fast (i.e., over 10mph), so you're not really slowing down the fat people out on their cruisers. If they want to ride fast, they should (by law) be on the roads.

The OP sounds like a dick. So in a way, his proper place might be with the cyclists.

What sort of dumbass takes his baby out running in a bike path anyway? There are cyclists on bike paths! Those guys are dicks. I wouldn't put my baby at risk on a path populated by unsafe, speeding, uptight, type A lawyer type douchebags on bicycles.

Pics?

Preferably while you are still drunk

you weave runners all day long? So, any time of day is okay? then you should have no problem going early and avoiding large groups of walkers/joggers. Especially on Calhoun/Isles, where they start later. Sure, on Harriet, with an older crowd, can still get large numbers even at 6am weekdays - use the bikepath on Harriet, walkpath on the others.

There. Your problem is solved. Next?

The easy solution...though admittedly not as entertaining for letsrun readers...could be to call/email the county parks and rec dept. or whoever maintains it and ask them.

uh_no wrote:

you're running at 9mph with a baby jogger???? doubtful

you're probably putting yourself and your baby in much more danger by being a prick and insisting your too good for the running trail.....so just like you get pissed to avoid people on the running trail, bikers get pissed at you on the biking trail

It's not that unusual. I timed a 5K race where the winner pushed a kid in a stroller, and repeated the performance next year - at sub 6 minute pace.

I usually go over to the bike lane to crap early in the morning. I figured it's easier for some dude to just wash his wheels, than get if off and outer sole. This monring some mountain biker almost stuck a bike pump up my arse. Is that wrong?

I don't really see the problem being on the bike path as long as you run in the same direction and there is plenty of room to pass. As for the negativity here, just consider the source.

Ironically, I used to have the opposite problem. A number of years ago I used to take my son for runs in a jogging stroller on a hiking trail near my house. The trail was off limits to bikers, but hikers used to call me out for having a wheeled vehicle on a hiking only trail.

I guess you just can't win.