A guy at work does marathon running. He pushes his hero diet onto other people and bags some folks out for grabbing a kebab on pay day, real jerk of a thing it is. He's recently started running on some fire roads locally and has found some of the single track a nearby club has in their permit to maintain. They've marked the loop with some obvious bunting at intersections on the track so everyone sticks to the same loop and doesn't stray onto some of the rutted out moto lines. The marathon runner has started a Facebook chat group and invited tons of like minded runners to join him at certain times to run around this trail and he's gone and marked it with his own plastic bunting and the entire direction is the absolute opposite direction of the bike trails. He see's an arrow pointing towards a climb or descent so he goes the other way. He has the attitude that it's his forest to use as well and like all other big headed moron's too engrossed in their own world, he thinks that just because there's a line on damn Strava that he can run it whatever way he likes.
Now, that all seems okay yeah? Its not really bothering anyone? Well, now he intends to rip the signs down that Forestry have put there describing the bike trails and he is planning to pull the course markings down so it doesn't interfere with what his running group wants to achieve on Strava. He's telling me all this because he thinks it's macho to talk smack to a mountain bike guy and he says to me that I need to tell my people (bike riders I guess?) that the forest is there for everyone to use and (.....get this) we should give way to the runners. I just laugh, all I can do is laugh. I said to him that I don't maintain those trails, I build gravity trails and only ride the XC trails socially for fitness etc. He asked what my trails are and said he could try running up them on weekends. I said nah, you're putting your hand in the bear's mouth there and shouldn't even consider it. He reckons he'll suss it out, find some stuff on Strava then run it backwards to get a trophy on it 'cause no one else has done it. ....................
Riddle me this: Does anyone care for your Strava running award when you're either in hospital with a broken nose and cheek bones because the trail builder on the XC trails flogged you? Equally, does it count when you're in a wheelchair because your ego got you in the path of a guy doing 60km down a marked trail and you were in his way and put him in hospital?
What a moron.