What to do with phone during half-marathon?

Evo Morales wrote:

What's wrong with you all wrote:

Geez what is wrong with everyone? Screw all these elaborate schemes like having a special meeting place with a secret handshake.

Solid point. It takes like 8 seconds for everyone to agree "let's meet in front of such and such place at 4:30". Done.

MUCH better and less elaborate for a dozen people to carry phones during a race and then randomly texting each other over and over again as you try and find each other in a crowd afterwards.

Yes, this. And in the rare case there is a disaster, your cell phone probably won't work anyway. We were at the 2013 Boston Marathon and neither of us ran with our phones, but thankfully had a planned meeting place and found each other among the crowds and bombs. When we got to a phone from bag check, cell service was off anyway when we tried to call family who wasn't at the event.

Leave it in the car, get turnt down on the way, and meat whoever you came with there. Walk back to the race if you have to.

Leave it in the car.

/thread

If you do a marathon on a track, you can leave it at the start and check it every quarter mile

Guy "Clogged Up" Colon wrote:

You have a rectum.....use it.

LOL

I like to stay away from any race where the logistics are crazy. If getting your cell phone is anything other than jogging to your car, getting your key that you hid in the hubcap and then grabbing your phone, then the race is not for me.

If for some reason I did do a large point to point race, then I would do as others have said and pick a landmark or shop near the finish to meet up at.

Guy "Clogged Up" Colon wrote:

You have a rectum.....use it.

Galaxy Note 7

No need for a phone! Do what people did for 10,000 years before a cell phone! Pick a place to meet after the race and go there! Leave your phone in your car!!!!!

You Stupid Idiot wrote:

You don't have a selfie stick? You're supposed to do running with a selfie stick!

My Mom says I have to take it everywhere so she can call and know I'm safe and being a good boy.

sillygooseee wrote:

No need for a phone! Do what people did for 10,000 years before a cell phone! Pick a place to meet after the race and go there! Leave your phone in your car!!!!!

What Charlottetons. Don't any of you have a butler that follows you?

Stuff it in your bra

Let's say you take a bus and travel 100 miles to the city where the race is being held. you are there the day before the race. you pick up your race package and sleep on the street overnight til the early morning hours when the race (marathon) begins.

so you don't have a car to put your phone in and you don't trust the bag check and you are wanting to set a huge PR and maybe win the marathon... And you need your phone in case of an emergency so you can call someone as you don't know anyone in the city you are in... and their are no payphones?????

and you don't want to strap the phone to your body during the race. What do you do?

YaBoiii wrote:

Guy "Clogged Up" Colon wrote:

You have a rectum.....use it.

Galaxy Note 7

what if it explodes?

I wear a flipbelt. It also keeps my yoga pants up.

Bag check it. You really think the person at bag check is going to steal your cell phone?

leaving it in the car is best. if you must, check it in your bag wrapped up in socks or something, making sure it's turned off, if that works better for you. the race volunteers checking bags don't give a toot about your phone. whatever you do, don't run with a phone in your possession in a race. you don't need it. really, you just don't.

I carry mine in my hand in a plastic baggie.

It'd kill the hamster. Just don't do it.

bad idea here wrote:

YaBoiii wrote:

Galaxy Note 7

what if it explodes?

Real Parent wrote:

What's wrong with you all wrote:

Geez what is wrong with everyone? Screw all these elaborate schemes like having a special meeting place with a secret handshake. And running with a phone is beta? Ok dad, spoken like a 50 year old.

Shove it in a waist strap and be done with it. Simple. You can still run fast. NBD. End of thread.

I am not disagreeing with you. I think this thread is hilarious. But if I tired to race with a phone in my waist strap, it would be either in my liner or on the ground within 3 strides. Not to mention that if it lasted the entire 13.1 miles, it would be broken due to sweat.

Maybe you don't sweat and can balance a phone in your waist band, and if so I am jealous.

Everyone! The jig is up! The riddle is solved! I'm announcing the joke!

A common technique is to thread your car keys / house keys with laces to secure them to your shoe. Then you can leave your valuables in your car. I was referencing this well known technique with the tongue in cheek direction to thread the unwieldy smartphone through your shoelaces.

Storage lockers are commonplace at gymnasiums, gymnasiums with tracks and other athletic facilities of high quality. By suggesting its presence at a trail race, road race, etc I was underscoring the ridiculousness of some of the schemes already posted in the thread.

Congratulations! G day mates