Sacramento Running News

This is worth protecting. (SRN photo)

If you read the Sacramento Bee, you’ve probably noticed the spate of articles on the Sacramento County Park Rangers’ plans to crack down on speeding cyclists.

There was the original article, which has over 470 comments, (450 of them by idiots), which I responded to here, and the Bee’s follow-up Can’t We All Just Get Along? editorial  from yesterday—plus many, many letters to the editor.

The comments and letters have centered on the visceral “cyclists are jerks vs. runners are idiots” and vice versa.

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Be careful out there!

In 2010, a man trying to achieve King of the Mountain (or KOM) status on Strava, died in a bike crash while racing down a steep descent in Berkeley’s Tilden Park.

The family of cyclist William “Kim” Flint II sued Strava for encouraging his dangerous riding.

On June 3, San Francisco Superior Court judge Marla Miller granted a motion for summary judgment, stating that Mr. Flint had “assumed the risks of bicycling.”

According to a press release by Strava: (more…)

Huh?

A Duluth woman gave birth while training for Grandma’s Marathon.

She claims to not have known she was pregnant.

Really?

“It was like a dream,” the new father said of the odyssey he and his wife have experienced in the past two days. “I wanted to make sure it was real.”

Read the “complete story” in the Duluth News Tribune!