m**k
发帖数: 18660 | 1 我觉得写的很好 呵呵.
Driving the roads is risky enough. Running them is far worse, though we tend
to take too lightly the threats zipping a few feet (or inches) from our
unprotected flesh and bones.
As runners, the roadways are never ours, no matter what the laws say about
shared access and rights-of-way. The roads belong to the vehicles, if only
because they're built at least 10 times our size and powered to travel more
than 10 times as fast. Most of us still run on the roads because they're
always right outside our door, they offer smooth, all-weather surfaces, and
(in town at least) they are lighted for early-morning and late-evening runs.
We hit the roads for this convenience, and in doing so court their dangers.
Most runners can recall near-misses in chilling detail, as in one example
among many of mine. One morning I shuffled into an intersection on a green
light. From the left, through the red light on the otherwise empty street,
came a taxicab at full throttle. The cabbie saw me too late. His tires
screeched and smoked as he slid past the spot with the invisible "X" where I
would have been if MY brakes hadn't worked. The driver looked at me with an
embarrassed shrug, while I put a hand over my heart in relief.
This incident didn't result from the driver's intent to do great bodily
injury, but from his inattention or impatience. That's the case with most
road collisions. Our best defense as runners, then, is to stay hyper-
attentive and extra-patient ourselves.
We see drivers much clearer than they see us. We see them rubbing sleep from
their eyes or checking their faces in the mirror. We see drivers with the
day's newspaper folded across the steering wheel. We see them eating,
drinking, smoking -- sometimes all at once -- or holding a cell phone in one
hand and gesturing to the unseen listener with the other.
Drivers speed as if the limits were the slowest pace they could legally
travel. Drivers wander into bike lanes, which serve equally well as running
lanes. Drivers turn without signaling for mere pedestrians, or drive at dawn
or dusk without lights. Drivers gun through yellow lights and coast through
stop-signs without looking to see who might be about to dash across their
path.
If it makes you feel better, point a warning finger (no, not THAT finger) at
the offending driver. But don't shake a fist or shout an obscenity -- and
please don't pound the side of a car or run over the hood like a
steeplechaser on the water jump. This is the runner's version of road rage,
and it can have dire consequences when drivers hold a deadly weapon in their
hands.
When you point a finger, remember that three fingers point back at yourself.
You drive more than you run, and probably make the same mistakes that
infuriate you in other drivers. Examine your own habits, both as a driver
and a runner. Then promise yourself and those who love you that you'll drive
more courteously and run more defensively -- and vice versa. Run as if the
drivers can't see you. Drive as if the lives of fellow runners are in your
hands. | m**k
发帖数: 18660 | 2 为了你爱的和爱你的人，还有你自己。跑步。要注意安全。。 | w********6
发帖数: 12977 | 3 从来用不着不跑马路的人飘过 ：）
PS，比赛跑马路，那时候车不许开； 骑车骑马路，骑在路中间：） | M**u
发帖数: 10158 | 4 跑步其实还行，骑车更恐怖。。。
【在 m**k 的大作中提到】
: 为了你爱的和爱你的人，还有你自己。跑步。要注意安全。。
| R*****s
发帖数: 41236 | 5 赞， 俺也有几次差点被车撞， 特别要当心右转的车， 司机有时候
只看左边不看右边。。
【在 m**k 的大作中提到】
: 为了你爱的和爱你的人，还有你自己。跑步。要注意安全。。
| m**k
发帖数: 18660 | 6 bso...
【在 w********6 的大作中提到】
: 从来用不着不跑马路的人飘过 ：）
: PS，比赛跑马路，那时候车不许开； 骑车骑马路，骑在路中间：）
| A***e
发帖数: 502 | | m******g
发帖数: 516 | 8 Right. My near miss happened when running on the side walk, someone drove
out from her drive way. She was not backing, but head first and only looking
to her left.
【在 R*****s 的大作中提到】
: 赞， 俺也有几次差点被车撞， 特别要当心右转的车， 司机有时候
: 只看左边不看右边。。
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