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Hey, Wait, Wait listeners. It's your judge and scorekeeper, Bill Curtis. We have another episode of How to Do Everything, hosted by Wait, Wait producers Mike Danforth and Ian Shillog. This week, Mike and Ian help a listener who wants to stop scaring people while she's going on runs. So they call an Olympian runner. She'll know what to do.
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Hey, Sam, what can we help you with?
So I'm calling about a question that I've been plagued with for many years now. I've been a runner since my teenage years. And regardless of where I run, I run into this similar issue of if I'm coming behind someone who's either walking or running fast, more slowly than I am, I get a little bit nervous about passing them without scaring them.
And sometimes I'll stop my feet really loudly or try to clear my throat a little bit to see if they can hear me, but I would say at least half the time they don't. And then when I pass them, they act a little bit upset as if it were my fault. I don't like that.
Is there a time you remember startling somebody that stands out in your memory?
There was a time that I was running on a trail and which I feel like on a trail you should be especially aware of your surroundings. And I did a lot of throat clearing and trying to make some noise and ended up going around this person and just got – they kind of jumped and then acted as if they were very, very scared.
And then I thought maybe there was a bear or something because the shock that they exhibited was much higher than I would have expected for just seeing another human being.
Yeah. Yeah. Have you ever had it, Sam, where you're running and someone passes you and they indicate they're coming in a clever way?
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