Single track etiquette

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    Runnerbabe

    Member since 01/05/2003.

    723 posts. Last post 13 years ago.
    20 years ago 04/18/2004 8:18am EDT

    OK, so what so you do when you get stuck behind a slower runner on a single track trail? When someone faster comes up behind me I more over to let them pass just as soon as I can. Often, though, I come up behind slower folks who don't or won't move, even when I ask, particularly in races. One thing I have tried is running right on the person's heels so that I clipped them every so often but the guy still wouldn't move- in fact he had some choice words for me when I finally did get around. So, any suggestions, short of pushing them off the trail?

  • HH.H

    Anonymous Poster

    20 years ago 04/18/2004 8:28am EDT
    re: Runnerbabe

    Come up on them really fast but quiet, then at the last second shake your keys or make some kind of noise. Scares the sh*t out of them and as they jump to avoid you, you can just carry on and say thanks.

  • scotth

    Anonymous Poster

    20 years ago 04/18/2004 11:23am EDT
    re: Runnerbabe

    After everything else has failed, try: 'Would you PLEASE move over?'

  • Novice

    Anonymous Poster

    20 years ago 04/18/2004 11:27am EDT
    re: Runnerbabe

    I sort of twist sideways and squeeze on by. If you push them a little in the process, it's their problem :)

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    doped up

    Member since 02/02/2004.

    991 posts. Last post 14 years ago.
    20 years ago 04/18/2004 12:04pm EDT
    re: Runnerbabe

    a loud, clear: "ON YOUR LEFT!!!!" (or right) when you are about 20 meters out. i've found it usually startles people to hear commands, and they instinctively move over. imagine yourself as a police officer saying it, and it somehow becomes more forceful.

  • solrichards

    Anonymous Poster

    20 years ago 04/18/2004 1:08pm EDT
    re: doped up

    I have got to go with the ''PLEASE'' idea. When your being nice to someone, and trying to use a good mannor in dealing with them. It is hard for them to spit in your face, unless they like feeling like an asshole, who was raised in a barn.

  • I do

    Anonymous Poster

    20 years ago 04/18/2004 1:13pm EDT
    re: solrichards

    Yell Track and if they don't move run them over.

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    isidore

    Member since 01/25/2003.

    91 posts. Last post 17 years ago.
    20 years ago 04/18/2004 1:32pm EDT
    re: Runnerbabe

    Last resort: give them "The Shocker"...that's a thumb up their ass...

  • idea

    Anonymous Poster

    20 years ago 04/18/2004 1:37pm EDT
    re: I do

    Wear your 3/4 inch spikes when your stepping down as you run over them. OUCH

  • lnformant

    Anonymous Poster

    20 years ago 04/18/2004 3:00pm EDT
    re: Isidore

    Im sorry young one, but you apparently dont know what the shocker is. Why dont you go ask your mommmy.

  • fhqwhgads

    Anonymous Poster

    20 years ago 04/18/2004 4:45pm EDT
    re: lnformant

    The shocker is "two in the pink, one in the stink." The one is the pinky, the two are the index finger and middle finger. Pull your head out of your ass.

  • jguesser

    Anonymous Poster

    20 years ago 04/18/2004 5:40pm EDT
    re: fhqwhgads

    I thought it was 2 in the pink and the Tongue in the stink or was it the other way around

  • Boobs

    Anonymous Poster

    20 years ago 04/18/2004 5:57pm EDT
    re: jguesser

    I would never stick my tongue or finger up some guys ass if I wanted to pass them. I don't know, call me a prude, but it just seems weird.

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    Runnerbabe

    Member since 01/05/2003.

    723 posts. Last post 13 years ago.
    20 years ago 04/18/2004 5:59pm EDT
    re: Boobs

    Oh brother. Who'd have guessed this thread would succumb to such nonsense in such a short time. Time to end it.....

    RB

  • Boobs

    Anonymous Poster

    20 years ago 04/18/2004 6:11pm EDT
    re: Runnerbabe

    Yeah, it was a nice try. "ON YOUR LEFT," works best, like Dopeman said. Loud and like you mean it. You want to say it from a good ways out too. That kind of direct authoritative tone tends to startle people, and startled people act often without reason. They insictively and immediately think that they are in the wrong and want to avoid the danger that comes with being wrong. I'd say that in that startled momement of quasi fear, about 40% actually panic and go left at first and then they go right, so you have to get your timing down.

  • Ass to the Max

    Anonymous Poster

    20 years ago 04/18/2004 6:14pm EDT
    re: Runnerbabe

    I usually just shout "MOVE". If they turn around instead of getting out of the way, I just scream!

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