tomljones3 wrote:
You are absolutely wrong. We had a track we could go to
where we would be all alone, just me and 3 kids. We would do interval workouts and it was great because we could all stay more or less together. My doberman would run beside me for the rest periods. When the interval started, she would take off at full speed towards the kids. She loved to take the kids out at the knees then she would come back and run with me for for the rest period. When the next interval came, she would take off for the kids again.
We would all laugh at each kids differing response. Sometimes they would try to run faster (it never worked). Other times they would try to evade. Sometimes they would trip themselves while trying to escape. I do admit that all the laughter was not conducive to the best interval sessions, but it was worth it.
That one descriptor is doing a lot of heavy lifting and is the sole justification for your actions. But the specific context of you and your immediate family being the only users means that your post is irrelevant for being not germane to the context presented in the original post.
The original post isn't concerned with situations like yours, but is concerned with when runners from different households have to share a track. In which case, the OP is in the right.