How to run down a old man

Ride: Modoc Run
Distance: 25 miles
Ride time: about 2hrs
Avg. Speed: 13.5 mph
2010 miles to date: 2,603
Weekly miles: 50 so far

My goal is to ride 200 miles this week, 100 miles during the week and 100 miles on Saturday in the Three Harbor Tour Century.  Today's ride was overcast and very cool and I should have worn my knee warmers.  My right knee started to hurt and I think it was from the cold.  I came close to running over my first old man today, but he managed to get away.  I was ride down the bike path near UCSB and I could see this man standing in my lane on the bike path,  I figured to pass him on the left but just as I started to go around him he saw me and also moved left right in front of me, I hit the breaks hard and stopped within inches of hitting him.  I don't think he saw me until I started to pass him, I must of startled him.   I almost collided with two other rides as I rode through UCSB,  ridding through the collage campus when school is in session is more dangerous than ridding on the Freeway.