Vent - Boot Camp/fat club.

JReacher1

Malthusian wrote: »

Until January 1st.

In all seriousness, if we take the OP's post at face value it is quite odd. I coach for a running club and we often run up and down hilly streets, but not the same street continuously for an hour. I would genuinely be sensitive of annoying the residents if we did that, and more importantly, it would be really really boring.

The OP could consider sending an email to the organisers to suggest that as much as he enjoys the sight of athletes getting their exercise outside his window, perhaps the ladies might get a bit bored of the same street every week for a whole hour and maybe they could exercise on some other streets to shake it up a bit. (Simple physics tells us there will be at least one equally good slope to exercise on in the vicinity.)

If it is not the street they are exercising in but a public park outside the OP's house (which is far more likely) then it is tough sugar. If you buy a house right next to parkland then presumably it's because you enjoy having the natural ambience of a park outside your window. Parks are for people to exercise in and the noise they make is part of that ambience, like dogs barking and children shrieking.

No it is directly on a street. Not a park. They run up and down the road. I wouldn't mind if it was a park as like you say that is what a park is for!

Yes it is very irritating. The thing that annoys me is that obviously they all start at the same time so you get a group of people running past together, 3 minutes later they run back the other way. Obviously by the end of the hour its become staggered as people run at different speeds so for the last ten minutes its just a constant stream of people running past my window in either direction.

I will try and get the groups name and send them an email asking them to either go somewhere else or run on the other side of the street!

fleshandbone

This is a wind up

Malthusian

Running groups do funny things (check out Sri Chinmoy) so I don't think it's a wind up.

However, while I'm wary of second guessing another coach's plan based on someone's partial observation from his house, it sounds like a really boring training session to me and it would probably be in everyone's interests if they didn't just run up and down the same street for an hour, including the runners. I hope they're not being charged a great deal for this.

maninthestreet

Come on OP, lets have some pictures!

JReacher1

Next Tuesday if I am in I'll try and take some.

That may solve the problem as a guy standing there taking photos of them must put them off the trip!

barbarawright

Here's an idea. Why don't you go outside and say hallo and actually talk to them? Maybe they don't realise it's irritating and will happily use a sli
ghtly different location every week

pappa_golf

barbarawright wrote: »

Here's an idea. Why don't you go outside and say hallo and actually talk to them? Maybe they don't realise it's irritating and will happily use a sli
ghtly different location every week

take cream cakes :rotfl:

HiToAll

pappa_golf wrote: »

take cream cakes :rotfl:

Not forgetting the sausage rolls for those on a diet.

JReacher1

barbarawright wrote: »

Here's an idea. Why don't you go outside and say hallo and actually talk to them? Maybe they don't realise it's irritating and will happily use a sli
ghtly different location every week

I do a bit of running/jogging myself and it always annoys me when I am mid run and some idiot stops me for something like directions or a chat. I therefore wouldn't do the same to someone else running.

AylesburyDuck

Buy an airhorn and scare the crud out of them every week when they run past. Shouldnt take too many weeks for them to take a hint.
Obviously let your neighbours know, hell, they might even join in the fun.
Best thread i've read today.