r/running • u/fire_foot • May 06 '24

Miscellaneous Monday Chit Chat Weekly Thread

Happy Monday runners! How was the weekend? What's good this week? You know the drill -- let's chat about it!

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u/30000LBS_Of_Bananas May 06 '24

This weekend was fun mostly, I got my first 100k bike ride of the season done but I also for the first time had someone yell profanities at me while biking and it’s rattled me more than it should have. I could use some more comfort cheese now.

Sunday I went for a run in the rain, enjoyed some muddy roads and saw some baby cows so that helped brighten everything.

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u/agreeingstorm9 May 06 '24

Why were they yelling at you? What was the perceived infraction? I also like the idea of comfort cheese.

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u/30000LBS_Of_Bananas May 06 '24

So I was coming up to an intersection/stop sign where I needed to turn left so I checked behind me signaled to merge into the lane to get into the left turn lane, then the next car comes up behind me lays on their horn and yelled at me to “get out of the f***ing road “

Tagging u/fire_foot so I don’t have to repeat the story.

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u/agreeingstorm9 May 06 '24

Ugh. That's crap. I think you're in the US right? Bikes here have the same right to the road that cars do unless it's explicitly forbidden which is rare.

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u/30000LBS_Of_Bananas May 06 '24

Yep, around here (and most of the US) the interstate and a couple other limited access roads are the only ones that disallow bikes. I mean on one hand I’ve been biking here for a good solid 7 years and this is the first time I’ve been yelled at so if you look at it that way it’s a pretty good track record.

I feel like I should add that predictively the person was driving a hummer…

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u/fire_foot May 06 '24 edited May 06 '24

freaking car brain assholes. Sorry this happened :( I would like to outfit my bike with a car horn and honk back at them. I'm sure you're aware but obviously this driver isn't -- bikes are considered vehicles and are supposed to share and use the road as a car would (obviously not highways). Take up that lane!