If you want to do running and jogging and speed hiking and you're blind or with low vision, you can adapt your running style. You can't do sighted people running. That's why those walking/running blind initiatives all want to tether you to a sighted runner. Because otherwise their sighted running style isn't safe for you. But you can run untethered and with a cane if you adapt your style to more "namba walking/running". Don't fly, don't land. You won't reach 10 km/h, and you'll run at a pace that's often just above fast walking speed. But namba removes the transition between walking and running and because of the speed you can run with a long cane. For directions I use VoiceVista and gpx routes that I prepare with sighted assistance and also scout with sighted assistance. So that I can slow jog untethered and find my own way, and can choose company or do without.
I got the feedback that my running "looks blind". Yah. That's because I'm blind. My running is blind running, yours is sighted running. I don't like the tethered buddy system and want to do without. I did tethered running once and my guide made me uneasy.
I just don't understand how you would want to do running without your own means of keeping you safe on the street.
#blind #BlindRunner