Who takes' runners' Instagram pictures?

Definitely the case most of the time. Tremendous baggery.

I asked this once and YES they put phone on ground and use a self-timing app it's amazingly narcissistic and must take a lot of attempts

There are also those who use their husband, children, siblings, parents as constant photographers. I know one who used to have her twin follow her around taking exercise shots (she wasn't very fast but was photogenic and had lots of followers so everything she used was sponsored)

Freeman22 wrote:

I asked this once and YES they put phone on ground and use a self-timing app it's amazingly narcissistic and must take a lot of attempts

I have seen Nick Symmonds do this

I'm one of those people and it's not complicated at all. It actually doesn't take long at all, unless you're an absolute perfectionist. You see a park bench, a rock, or almost any object, put your phone down and bam. I can snap a run pic in less time than it takes for most runners to stop for water. Choose 1 out 10 pics in the burst when finished your run, usually 1 works out.

Instarunner wrote:

I'm one of those people and it's not complicated at all. It actually doesn't take long at all, unless you're an absolute perfectionist. You see a park bench, a rock, or almost any object, put your phone down and bam. I can snap a run pic in less time than it takes for most runners to stop for water. Choose 1 out 10 pics in the burst when finished your run, usually 1 works out.

We're not saying it's difficult, it's just surprising that people would advertise their narcissism so loudly

The OP wanted to know how it was done. But if the crusty old men out there just want to poke fun at millennials, that's probably why people don't bother answering the genuine questions as to how anyway.

why did you put an apostrophe at the end of the word takes?????

I am a millennial and I still don't get it. When I'm running I'm running I don't have time to set my phone down yet propped up, run past then back again to pick it up...and you must have a lot of experience to always get the angles right and be in the shot. If I tried I'd probably get just the ground or just the sky and one arm or something

Many times, if the runner is the member of a training group, it's a teammate taking the picture. Seems like Rowland's, Schumacher's, Coogan's, and Gags' athletes do this a lot.

Calling it narcissism just shows that you don't get it on so many levels. You'd be better off without a phone and never running again.

Oh and also if no photo credit is given, you just assume either Kyle Merber or Aric Van Halen took it.

FWIW, one of the Jefferson guys takes a lot of Symmonds'

lol @ millennials wrote:

Instarunner wrote:

I'm one of those people and it's not complicated at all. It actually doesn't take long at all, unless you're an absolute perfectionist. You see a park bench, a rock, or almost any object, put your phone down and bam. I can snap a run pic in less time than it takes for most runners to stop for water. Choose 1 out 10 pics in the burst when finished your run, usually 1 works out.

We're not saying it's difficult, it's just surprising that people would advertise their narcissism so loudly

I think their Sponsors need/want/require them to be present on social media, and this means sacrificing some dignity.

Lover of motor carriages wrote:

lol @ millennials wrote:

We're not saying it's difficult, it's just surprising that people would advertise their narcissism so loudly

I think their Sponsors need/want/require them to be present on social media, and this means sacrificing some dignity.

I think the OP and many of the negative / "they're narcissists" posters are talking about non-professional runners here. We all understand why pros need to market themselves. But a 18:00 5ker xfit brah or a 24:00 5ker mom...not so much. I agree with the overall sentiment of this thread. Non-pros with action shots of workouts on social media!?! I don't care if it's technically easy to do, it is the mark of a total d-bag.

"Look at me, look at me, look at what I'm doing, I'm doing something, I'm amazing, I am someone, I am".........................so sad.

Can we go back to the nineties please.

Lover of motor carriages wrote:

lol @ millennials wrote:

We're not saying it's difficult, it's just surprising that people would advertise their narcissism so loudly

I think their Sponsors need/want/require them to be present on social media, and this means sacrificing some dignity.

While I'm not sponsored yet, I assume potential sponsors will be more likely to pick me up if they see how good I look.

You're missing the point... wrote:

Lover of motor carriages wrote:

I think their Sponsors need/want/require them to be present on social media, and this means sacrificing some dignity.

I think the OP and many of the negative / "they're narcissists" posters are talking about non-professional runners here. We all understand why pros need to market themselves. But a 18:00 5ker xfit brah or a 24:00 5ker mom...not so much. I agree with the overall sentiment of this thread. Non-pros with action shots of workouts on social media!?! I don't care if it's technically easy to do, it is the mark of a total d-bag.

If you aren't advertising your pure joy of living with selfies, then you're not really living.

Just going around smiling at people and making polite conversation is just not the way forward anymore.

Sesamoiditis wrote:

I see a lot of pictures on Instagram of runners at all levels running in training. A lot of them seem to be shots taken from the ground. Who is taking these pictures? Are runners setting up cameras on the ground themselves and running back and forth until they get a good shot?

I do it just to pi$$ you off.

My question is why are so-called running "pro's" running with phones / cameras in the first place? I'm a hobbyjogger and I don't even do that.

Sarah Hall takes the topless pictures of Ryan Hall when he presents his swole/yoked upper body.

Honestly, I don't think she mind doing that.

Good thread.

I like to document my runs with photos of where I'm running, but haven't gotten into taking selfies while running. Quite frankly, action photos or having a runner as a subject are a whole lot more interesting (I'll take photos of the group on a group run), and works better as art, than the still photos I take of what I see on runs. However, I somewhat agree with the general opinion on here, and I can't get myself to post a runfie to avoid looking like a d-bag, but I don't mind other people taking runfies - even with their look at me attitude - particularly if it increases interest in running and builds the running community. It really is a whole new modern form of art that I think can be appreciated.

Also, I don't mind running with an oversized phone - lets me capture random things I see on runs as reminders in the future, and I also use the phone as my watch (strava app). Gives me more joy in running than just my quest of breaking 18 in the 5k 15 years after I was an above average collegiate runner. Sometimes snapping a great photo mid run is more rewarding than hitting a great tempo run. Also, a phone could be good in case of emergency out on a trail.