Running Etiquette for Feeding Stations

uvox

Is there an etiquette/guidelines/recommendations for picking up your water/lucozade/bannanas/whatever from feeding stations? E.g., move over into line early? I've seen quite a few collisions and unparliamentary language at these stations with runners unsure whether to stop, suddenly pull over, where to throw the empty etc.

Perhaps a sign in advance of the stations at events themselves might help.

libelula

uvox wrote: »

Perhaps a sign in advance of the stations at events themselves might help.

"You are the direct result of billions of years of human evolution. Fcuking act like it"

28064212

Person in front has right of way. If he/she stops dead (which can happen for many reasons), it's the responsibility of the people behind to overtake safely Also, most large events (including DCM and the race series) do have advance signage.

TFBubendorfer

28064212 wrote: »

Person in front has right of way. If he/she stops dead (which can happen for many reasons), it's the responsibility of the people behind to overtake safely Also, most large events (including DCM and the race series) do have advance signage.

Person in front has right of way as such as you don't barge them out of the way in order to grab a cup.

However.

Do not stop dead if you have runners right behind you. Instead move sideways out of the way before you stop.

It's not the "responsibility" of the people behind you. If someone stops dead right in front of you without any warning whatsoever it's the person who stops that is at fault if there is a collision, not the runner who did not manage to get out of the way in time.

Finglas Flier

I would be more concerned with the etiquette of exiting the porto loos at each stop. On more then one occasion I seen runners nearly getting slammed by a quick opening loo door... :-)
Shyte way to end your marathon..... :-)

average_runner

28064212 wrote: »

Person in front has right of way. If he/she stops dead (which can happen for many reasons), it's the responsibility of the people behind to overtake safely Also, most large events (including DCM and the race series) do have advance signage.

If someone stops dead right in front of you, you do what you have to do to avoid your race getting disrupted.

The guy in front of you is the one at fault.

average_runner

28064212 wrote: »

Person in front has right of way. If he/she stops dead (which can happen for many reasons), it's the responsibility of the people behind to overtake safely Also, most large events (including DCM and the race series) do have advance signage.

If someone stops dead right in front of you, you do what you have to do to avoid your race getting disrupted.

The guy in front of you is the one at fault.

average_runner

28064212 wrote: »

Person in front has right of way. If he/she stops dead (which can happen for many reasons), it's the responsibility of the people behind to overtake safely Also, most large events (including DCM and the race series) do have advance signage.

If someone stops dead right in front of you, you do what you have to do to avoid your race getting disrupted.

The guy in front of you is the one at fault.

BeepBeep67

Cruise on through and ask someone for a swig of their water once the melee has died down

28064212

TFBubendorfer wrote: »

It's not the "responsibility" of the people behind you

Fair point, responsibility was a poor choice of word. I was more trying to emphasise that as an individual runner, you should run conservatively. It's all well and good talking about etiquette, but runners ahead of you will stop dead, they will swerve across you, they will cause you problems, so you're better off allowing for those things, than being surprised when they do happen

TFBubendorfer

28064212 wrote: »

Fair point, responsibility was a poor choice of word. I was more trying to emphasise that as an individual runner, you should run conservatively. It's all well and good talking about etiquette, but runners ahead of you will stop dead, they will swerve across you, they will cause you problems, so you're better off allowing for those things, than being surprised when they do happen

Yes, that makes a lot more sense

Also, even if there is no bin, don't drop water bottles right at your feet after you used them, others might step on them and could get hurt. And for God's sake, don't hurl them into someone's garden or over some hedge. That behaviour drives me nuts and I see it all the time.

Psychosis

Organized chaos! I dont think anyone has right of way.

The best etiquette I've seen was at DC Half this year. The water stations were very tight and the pacers were grabbing multiple bottles for others and hand them out just down the road.

Most people also offered their bottle to others before chucking them since a lot of people missed the water stations trying to keep pace, me included.