Seems everyone is running during lockdown something I've done long before lockdown, had another runner tell me I shouldn't be running on the road (with no pavement) facing the oncoming traffic and that you should run with the traffic coming Behind you, that seems stupid to me. As better to see what's coming your way so as you have time to jump in the hedge or what ever if needed. What's everyone else's view?
I don't like running but would make sense to face the traffic so you see it coming. I'm struggling to see any benefit in going with traffic as you will be moving so slow relative to a car.
You always run towards oncoming traffic. You can then see/dodge anything that might happen. Running in the same direction as the traffic is a bit silly. This other runner is a tw@t.
Seeing traffic coming towards you does make sense and hopefully allows you to take action. But, and I could be talking bollocks here, I have noticed that if you are driving and you have someone running towards you on a country lane and you have to give way to to oncoming traffic, the runner gets closer and closer to you no matter how much you slow up. Then getting round them can become tricky or they end up stopping. If they are running away from you and you have to give way, they continue to put distance between you and them so overtaking them seems easier and safer. Tons of runners on the lanes near me so I think about this quite a bit.
I know pedestrians are supposed to walk on the side of oncoming traffic on any road without pavement(think it might even be law or in the highway code or something). Don't see why it would be any different if running.
At least that way you get to see who ran you over rather than being mowed down from behind.
I have a few routes it's only the one route I need to use the actual road and not the pavement! when the grass has been cut I can use the verge to run on but much prefer running on hard surface. Nice to mix runs up I get bored doing the same routes.
Run on the side of the road where you can see on coming traffic. If its a tight bed hog the middle or the opposite side. The roads are shite down here in Devon, super narrow so have to hog the middle all the time but helps to be seen.
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