Hello Lukelzard and All, https://www.theguardian.com/...ggers-dangerous-cars Excerpt:
Not all villains wear Lycra – cars are literallykilling us
Arwa Mahdawi/Aug 11, 2017
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‘Hogger joggers’ and mamils aren’t the only ones hurling us into the path of danger. There’s a bigger and more normalised culprit on our streets
There is – you may have noticed – a certain sort of middle-class, middle-aged man who decides he’s going to burn off the angst of advancing age through aggressive exercise. He’s going to do marathons and triathlons and so on; he’s going to muscle his way out of mortality.
Now, exercise is normally considered a healthy way of relieving stress and dealing with internal issues. However, some of these midlife fitness fanatics rage against the dying of the light just a little too hard and their rage runneth over. A recent well-publicised incident in London was perhaps an example of that. On Thursday, the Metropolitan police
arrested a middle-aged man in Chelsea as part of an investigation into an incident in which a jogger appeared to knock a female pedestrian into the path of an oncoming bus.
Admittedly, this would be a rathern extreme example of middle-age runner rage. But, looking at the coverage it caused, one could be forgiven for thinking that it was symptomatic of a far greater problem. Namely, the scourge of egregious exercisers on city streets. Indeed, the past few days have seen non-stop huffing and puffing about how “hogger joggers” and “Lycra louts” are a blight on Britain. And despite the fact that no bikes were involved in the Putney bridge incident, some commentators have managed to spin the event into a denouncement of all things bike-related. On Friday, for example,
Jan Moir at the Daily Mail went on a tirade about how “cyclists are the worst”, particularly the “middle-aged male cyclist”.
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