Smart Watch Apparently Not Smart Enough to Tell Man He's Running in Wrong Direction Around Track
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A man at a local track is running in the wrong direction, Dumb Runner has learned—a faux pas that his smart watch apparently isn’t smart enough to detect.
The man, identified as Douglas Corrigan, 50, has been on the track for about 30 minutes, alternating bouts of running and walking, glancing frequently at the expensive-looking watch on his left wrist. Traditionally, users of a running track move in a counterclockwise direction, keeping the infield to their left. Corrigan, however, has been moving in a clockwise direction, defying basic track etiquette and annoying other runners.
“It’s wild,” said a source, who requested anonymity. “I guess that watch he keeps looking at isn’t programmed to tell the user he’s being a tool.”
The source added that Corrigan himself appears to be lacking that same feature.
“I mean, open your eyes, dude,” they said. “Don’t you find it odd that you’re the only person here running in this particular direction?”
“What are you, part salmon?”
Reached for comment, Corrigan stopped abruptly in the middle of lane 1 to take the call.
