Also on the corksicle.
Now that's funny.
Since I'm slower (even when I'm faster than I have been) I watch things unfold ahead of me. I'll see 3 groups converging, then a much faster person coming up behind them, thinking they are all together. It's heightened at princess because of so many wide tutus and princess outfits.
Sometimes it's all one clumpy group, but usually it's just more than one group, none of whom are willing or able to change their pace that quickly, that create a clump.
I don't tend to yell out, but I get fairly close and say in a lower voice (I personally cannot hear high tones with my natural hearing, and I don't run with the equivalent of $5000 behind my ears, so I use a low, carrying tone) closer, either "on your x side" or "in the middle" and saying thank you.
As long as there isn't a fistfight at the expo (like in 2017) I'm OK, but I do prefer other weekends.
Agreed.
It's why I despise the pace groups. They have zero etiquette. I'm so incredibly glad I was on wider stretches of course when they came upon me, and that I didn't encounter the (especially egregious IMO) 3:30 group as I have in the past.
Ayep. There's no reason any of us doing intervals should expect anyone not doing intervals to have even a single clue about what putting a hand up means. So it is absolutely on those changing speeds to look behind them both ways before slowing down or speeding up.
Forgive my grammar above. I'm very very distracted since my (new adult) son is sick at home and I'm stuck until my flight tomorrow.