runners vs. cyclist

[Eden]

I can't say I've ever really had a problem with joggers in bike lanes. Yeah, pedestrians on MUPs can be a real danger (not just joggers either...), a good reason to avoid MUP's, but for the most part joggers on the road are quite polite, even when being passed by a group of 20 or more women on bikes (I think it is because they can see us coming, unlike on a trail where you come up behind a jogger and sometimes they totally freak out cause they've got their ears plugged and they can't hear you....) though we don't see them all that often - mostly just on Mercer Island, where we both have to share the shoulder of the road as there is no bike lane and no sidewalk.
The only place I've ever seen someone jogging down the bike lane when they likely should have been using the sidewalk was on West Lake Sammamish, in a place that there is a sidewalk.
In any case it is good to know just what the laws are even if you choose to bend them at times.