A few years back, a local county park made an agreement with the local mountain biking group to allow the development of a very nice 5 mile single track, with the understanding that the bike group be the stewards of the park related to cleanliness, safety and other positive things..

So, knowing that, this being a county park and available to all, I am not here to debate who should get to use these trails, though their intended use was obvious. Who builds a walking track with jumps and banked switch backs?

What I am having a problem with is that in the past year I have seen a huge increase of runners who have adopted these trails for their use, and granted, some of them are faster than me, but for the most part you have that walkie run kinda thing going on. The bigger issue is they have adopted an attitude that you must go around them, even if it is evident that you are screaming on a downhill, they will not budge to allow you passage on down the trail even when they see you coming. There is a particular section that is a series of 6 well designed switchbacks with large risers in between each. When you commit to this section, there is no stopping, less you want to fall. These joggers are puttering through these areas and get angry if you attempt to slip by .

Am I missing something here? Am I wrong to be flustered (my forum version of pi$$ed) by this?