Most of my incidents have been on my road bike (I do most of my running on trails). These were all in Indiana too. Colorado drivers seem to be much more civil and tolerant of runners/cyclists. These were all unprovoked.

- Full bottles of beer/soda thrown at me from a moving car (numerous occasion). They really hurt.
- Water thrown on me from a moving car
- A van drove by and the back doors opened and they rolled the spare tire out at us. Missed by a mile, it was actually so weird it was kinda funny.
- Shot point blank with a BB gun from a passing car (I almost sh*t myself at the time because I didn't know it was only BB gun)
- Sprayed with pepper spray by a bunch of teenage girls in a passing car.
- Waiting at a red light to make a left turn one day, and the lady behind me bumps me and knocks me off my bike, then lays into the horn and starts yelling at me to get the **** out of the road. She had to be in her late 60s. Bizarre.

After the BB gun incident I started carrying a gun, I figured it was only a matter of time until someone tried to kill me. Thankfully I was able to give that practice up when I moved.


http://This message has been edited by cgerber (edited Feb-04-2007).

Yeah, well, when I lived in my old hoodrat town I had a dozen bagels thrown at me. And they were perfectly good with poppy seeds. Made me pretty hungry. Being where I lived, I'm surprised that's all that happened.

OK, I've never been on the receiving end of anything, but I usually run around 7 in the morning, so no problem there.

But, the other afternoon, I gave a felow runner a hard time by accident. I had stopped the snowblower in the middle of the road to talk to my wife, when a runner came by. I didn't see her, till I hit the auger lever. She got a face full of snow. Luckily, not much snow was thrown out.
Even more luckily, she wasn't hurt. She just kept on running. didn't even flip me the bird. Of course, I would have deserved it.

RyG

I used to have issues with people yalling stuff at me, but now that everyone in my town has seen me running everyday i dont get any random rude comments like "***!" or "ur gunna die" any more, and somehow people i dont kno, sometimes yell my name wen im running, it gets kinda sketchy

well, i live in a small costal town (CT) where we have a massive runners bodies, usally if i pass a runner i will give a simple wave and slow down. but heres what has happened to me

-im kind of embrassed to admit this, but on a trainging run with my xc buddies, a small shiztu got mistakely let out and started to come after us, i wasent afraid at first and kept running, but then it targeted me, i tried everythig then he started to nip, was about to kick the little thing but the owner cam and got it (i am an animal lover btw)
-goten sprayed numerous times by puddles, already soaked to so i didnt mind
-gotten the run forest run by neighbor that i know, once or twice by some unknows
-i usally just get the glares, like who was that running

im glad i run with an ipod

quote:<HR>Originally posted by 3ws4rf5tg:
woww, i havn't had ANY bad running experiences, even after all these years! nothing thrown at me, no one saying stuff at me, even when cars pass me, or i pass walkers. no dogs have ever chased me either. one thing i do though is wear a cap, and over that wear a head, so basically my head is covered. prevents people from seein your identity :P<HR>

i diddn't know u could wear a head

one time a dog ran over and peed on my leg.

Why in the world would people throw things at a runner? That's horrific. They're probably just jealous because they can't run, but still. I'd kick some one's a** if they even attempted to throw something at me.