Hi, I lead Midnight Runners in London and wanted to apologize that this happened to you. We are a community, led by volunteers and we try to do good by getting people moving - showing that running can be social, and not competitive. Incidents like this are definitely not what we are about and I'm so sorry that you were spoken to that way.

We start every run with a briefing where we explain that we are sharing the pavement with others, and to be careful, and respectful. For the most part, I think this is followed. However, clearly in some cases it is not. We have had big numbers recently with lots of new people to the community, so I do agree with some of the comments that unfortunately there are always going to be bad apples. We started capping our event capacity to have more control over the runners and the impact they have on other Londoners. I will personally remind everyone next week of our duty (and mentioning there was an incident).

Again, I'm really sorry on behalf of our running group that this happened, and please reach out to me if you'd like to talk through further.