I 110% approve of this I,A.

Sounds like a fucking Portlandia episode...or should be...

What you don't understand is that once they complete the marathon they will NEVER DIE. ever.

I'm gonna echo Arenit: best I, A in quite awhile. And Jake? "dodge all the Lance and Livestrongs" -- FUCKIN' HILARIOUS!! I've adopted this into my vocabulary instantly.

So there isn't enough space for you and the runners? And your politely dinging bicycle bell is ineffective at moving them out of the way? How terrible. What a tragedy, worth the effort typing

Making fun of Lance on the esplanade = legit

@ sagging it’s hardly a tragedy that the various running clubs create weekly blockades on our recreational paths, it’s just annoying and slightly dangerous. I do think the congratulatory-orgy of sweaty, smelly and often bloody people camping out in a café right after a 20 mile run is plain disgusting and well worth the typing.

again, my theme: if you are annoyed by another person using public space, and suggest that running clubs are a legitimate menace ("dangerous"), that's your problem. Not theirs.

I don't belong to any such running/training/wanking club, and I assume they will move out of the way for me when walking. If they don't, fuck them, but that's an individualized "fuck you" and not generalizable. And I would rather sit near a sweaty runner at a cafe than some fat reeking smoker with massive pale cankles. But I like it here, so I sit near either, enjoy myself, and mind my own business.

This polite bell-ringing IA who can't spell has mastered the art of spineless, soulless bitching. Yeah, it's hardly a tragedy at all, you're right. Be annoyed. It doesn't make any difference at all.