Quote Originally Posted by OakLeaf View Post
Now that I'm running much more than cycling, I get to face traffic and watch drivers aim their cars at me all the time, like as many as one vehicle in five on a straight piece of roadway where we have plenty of time to see each other - just because they never learned about target fixation in driver's ed. Most of them correct before I start thinking about diving for the ditch - those are the ones cyclists don't even realize how close they came to being flattened.
As a runner I find this tendency seems much more common of the older crowd. So I wonder if target fixation becomes more of an issue as one ages, for some reason. Or the older folk in ginormous luxury cars who absolutely refuse to cross the center line to give a runner room in the Winter when there are 3' snowbanks and nowhere for me to go...and no other cars on the road! Just one reason I'm not keen on riding my bike in the Winter, in spite of having a fat bike.