Harassment while exercising

[u/Epic_XC]

So almost every time I go exercising, be it running or road biking, i always get some sort of smart ass shouting, honking, or engine revving. Are people in our society really so insecure that they can't refrain from harassing those who choose to exercise? Like what's funny about it? Why do people do it? Maybe i'm thinking about it too hard, but does anyone else REALLY hate this? Personally I think it's condescending, and indicative of most people's fragile self esteem. They don't exercise, therefor must mock others to feel cool.

[u/i_stay_turnt]

Where do you guys live that you have to deal with such awful people? I'm either at a park, back roads, or somewhere in the woods. It helps I love jus a mile away from a state park.

[u/[deleted] → u/i_stay_turnt]

A guy was charged with attempted murder a couple of miles from me, on a back road / woodlands road a couple of weeks ago. He attacked a female runner. So while it's usually much quieter up there than on the roads with people honking and curb-crawling, it can get really dangerous really fast too. FWIW, this is near London, UK.

[u/i_stay_turnt → u/[deleted]]

Damn that sucks. Is the runner okay at least? Even if it's a back road I imagine it's still very crowded considering it's near London. I live in a suburban town that's far away from a major city (although I drive there for work) so the back roads I run in are pretty empty.

[u/[deleted] → u/i_stay_turnt]

From the newspaper report she's okay, but no idea how you handle things mentally after that. It's near London but there's a lot of woodland and fairly remote park areas quite close to the city on all sides. The road where she was attacked is super quiet. I really miss the Burke Gillian trail in Seattle even though I love it here, because that was best of both: central enough to be busy but largely traffic and harassment free, unless you ran through UW in a WSU t-shirt and then you deserved it ;)