One dark night I walked through a cemetery, and as luck would have it, I fell into a freshly dug grave and I was knocked out - soft hit. I tried to get out, but it was too wide to wedge across and it was almost 10 feet deep, so I tried again and again to escape - to no avail, so I slumped down and sat on the earth. A bit later a singing drunk came along the same path and fell in. He did what I did, wedging, jumping again and again. Seeing this, I spoke up and said 'you will never get out of here' - he did!
I used to routinely take late night strolls through a large cemetery near my apartment in grad school. I was never once chased by a zombie, skeleton, vampire, or lich; but it turns out the local police took a dim view of someone "wandering" the cemetery late at night.
Cemeteries are often sad creepy dumps to start with, which cultures different than yours would find disrespectful of the dead. To me, OP would help integrate these places into the life of the community, honoring those who are interred there.
Actually, for an annual fee you can let your dog run off-leash in Congressional Cemetery in SE Washington, DC. I assume that the cemetery requires that you clean up after your dog. The one dog owner I knew who paid the fee certainly would have in any case.
I recently wrote about this unique Bulgarian memorial practice called Necrologs, but in the second half of the post, I talk a bit about the future of graveyards. You might find it interesting:
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That depends, or depended. According to something I read years ago, the Army does not want you to run in Arlington Cemetery. The Archdiocese of Washington had no objection to runners in the cemeteries that it owns.
Some people could potentially find this offensive. They're unlikely to be offended enough to say anything to you, but never the less may not appreciate their loved-ones place of rest being used as an outside gym. You should find another place to go running. The cemetery is neither the only place to run, nor the most appropriate.
On the other hand, what is and isn't appropriate is entirely subjective. I know I'd be happy for someone to run by my grave, and ideally I think cemeteries should be beautiful enough that people want to go to them for reasons other than to morn. They should be happy places. Not sad. If someone disagrees, that is ultimately their problem. So long as you're not doing anything otherwise objectionable while running (you're sticking to paths, not littering, etc) you should continue to run in the cemetery.
There is an awesome cemetery in Sydney on the ocean adjacent walking/running/biking trail (so it is overlooking the ocean). I guess you can't run in it, but run by it sure.
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Some people could potentially find this offensive. They're unlikely to be offended enough to say anything to you, but never the less may not appreciate their loved-ones place of rest being used as an outside gym. You should find another place to go running. The cemetery is neither the only place to run, nor the most appropriate.
On the other hand, what is and isn't appropriate is entirely subjective. I know I'd be happy for someone to run by my grave, and ideally I think cemeteries should be beautiful enough that people want to go to them for reasons other than to morn. They should be happy places. Not sad. If someone disagrees, that is ultimately their problem. So long as you're not doing anything otherwise objectionable while running (you're sticking to paths, not littering, etc) you should continue to run in the cemetery.
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That said, too small to run.