The difference between walking and running?

Just got back from my first real walk with digester since she had her womanhood so ruthlessly ripped out.

All previous walks this week have been brief affairs but today, back to our normal walk around the lake opposite our house. The walk usually takes one hour and is done early morning or later in the evening.

Today, mid morning and I encountered three specific types enjoying the path that circles the lake.

1. Cyclists. These are the Hitlers of exercise and display their usual angry disdain for everyone else on the lake path as they do on the roads. Why are these people so angry? Is it because of the chapped thighs or the static produced by all of the nylon they wear? Whatever it is, they really should chill a little and be a great deal less hateful to their fellow man/woman. They have become such a nuisance that I now actively get in their way and woe betide the first nylon clad Hitler who cuts up rough, their cycle will be in the drink before they can say bicycle clips.

2. Runners. Why run when all they do is go around in a bloody circle looking very miserable indeed. Running for a bus is something I can fully understand, though getting up/leaving early enough to not to need to run would solve that one. No, all these people do is dress up in lycra and rush about getting sweaty. Is it maybe a kinky thing and they like lycra and sweat? I am not convinced purely on the basis that I have never seen a runner who is looking anything other than close to death and very miserable indeed.

3. Walkers. Either with a dog or without, these happy band of people stop, talk to you, pet your dog, wish you a happy day and then wander off chatting to their companions/dog. These people are having a great day and look happy and stress free.

So putting the Hitler types to one side, as frankly they should be taken out of society for their own good, my message to the runners is: slow down, stop and chat for a while. You can still wear your lycra in public if that is your thing, us walkers quite like to see a shapely form every now and then, but we'd like to see the lycra clad shapely form with a smile on it's face.