Good luck. Paved paths are tricky, people are sometimes unobservant or downright oblivious.

I've found that calling out in a loud yet cheerful voice something along the lines of "hi, good morning, mind if I pass you?" well before I reach them works about 95% of the time. The other 5% of the time I have to call out again, and again, and slow down to a crawl and roll around them, with my jaw clamped in a grimace disguised as a smile. But that doesn't happen very often.

As far as I can tell, there's not much you can do about that small proportion of the Walking Clueless, and the reality is when you're on a multi-use path you have to accept the fact that you are going to have to slow down early and often. That's why I pretty much always prefer the road to bike paths.

- Jo.