Originally Posted by
rsbob
I ran for years before slowly transitioning to becoming a full time cyclist. Unless the streets were crazy busy with cars, I always ran in the street or bike lanes. As others have pointed out, asphalt is a bit softer, it isn’t likely to be broken up like concrete sidewalks and doesn’t have the annoying up and down of cub cut transitions to the roadway. Was passed by many cyclists with never a comment. I figure it was just like passing a very slow moving cyclist. If I knew a bike was behind me, I would jump out of the street.
The way you've worded your experience however, it sounds like you ran with traffic, not against it? Otherwise, a cyclist going 20mph, and runner coming at them at say 7mph, has combined head-on passing speed of 27mph -- not much like a faster cyclist passing a slower cyclist. For a cyclist passing a runner going the same direction, it's a lot easier to do this safely as they can simply slow down and wait for opportune time to go into traffic and around the runner.