Charity walks a nuisance and a waste of time

Once a year my local running trail is overrun by a huge crowd of
people. The trail is pretty narrow but normally has enough room for a
moderately sized and spread out group of runners, walkers, and
bicyclists to share, but on this one day a crowd engaged in some sort
of falsely-selfless massive orgy decides to take more than their fair
share of the terrain. They take up both left and right sides so that
anyone else can only barely pass on the shoulder.

I found out recently it's some sort of walk for hunger. Here's the
problem. Walking doesn't feed people. All it does is burn energy and
make the walkers feel like they're doing a good deed while getting in
the way of other people going about their normal business. I know
there's this scheme where outside people pledge money for every mile
walked. That's ridiculous. A donation to a good cause shouldn't
require walking.

If these walking people wanted to actually do some good, rather than
engage in what I equate to public masturbation for the ego, they'd go
buy or produce some food or go build some food-producing
infrastructure. The same goes for any other types of walks. I don't
buy the idea that they "raise awareness". All they did for me was
piss me off in a way that makes me not want to help them. If they
want to raise awareness, they should simply collect donations or they
should make signs that advertise where physical labor that actually
effects some real results could be volunteered.

Hi

I guess that running makes you feel good. Just once a year a lot of other people want to feel good. Surely you can let them. You have the trail 364 days in the year.

How others use their time and energy is not for us to judge - they after all may have similar thoughts about you!

Alex