Seattle Times - Noooooooooo

February 28th, 2008 at 9:56 pm (Swim) · Digg! this story! Digg! this story.

The Seattle Times has a supplement called “Northwest Weekend”.   Today’s edition had a picture that made me cringe!   Only days after my rant about educating on trail manners - a freelance writer posted an article called “In praise of the paved path”.    The article was well intended. Good PR for the trails themselves…. And, it could have been the PERFECT place for educating folks on trail safety and community making.   But, alas. No.

 There, along side a list of the many trails in the region was a picture of a guy being pulled on roller blades by his dog.   Ack!  Dear Mr. Rollerblader:  This is not the Iditerod!  Letting your dog pull you on rollerblades is probably one of the MOST dangerous things to do on the trail! 

 No rollerblader can can stop fast enough to get out of the way of a kid or a runner or a bunny crossing the trail.   It’s not safe for the rollerblader.  It’s not safe for the dog.  And it’s not safe for anyone else on the trail.

Bummer. Seattle Times, such missed opportunities. 

Workout:

  • Type: Swim
  • Date: 02/28/2008
  • Time: 21:56:20
  • Total Time: 00:30:00.00
  • Distance: 1,108.8 yd
  • Average Pace: 2:43.64/100yd

2 Comments

  1. Brad Hefta-Gaub said,

    February 29th, 2008 at 2:50 pm

    Excellent post again!

  2. seashell said,

    March 1st, 2008 at 9:04 am

    Hey Brad,
    I don’t know why I’m so fired about this. I emailed the reporter to nicely ask she print a notice about the unsafe picture - and follow with an article on trail safety. I cc’d my blog post to her as well…………. Hopefully!
    ~s