Running With A Cell Phone

ukathleticscoach wrote:

I know some mid 14 guys who do their easy runs with a cell phone in their hand if they're on the trails.

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John Lenihan was running on Carountool (yeah, I probably spelled that wrong) some years ago, fell and broke his leg. It took him hours to get back down but had a cell phone and managed to call for help. I don't know if he held it in his hands or not. I remember that on the first really long run I took as a high school runner I probably stress fractured my foot about three miles from home and could not put any weight on it. I had to find a pay phone and call my dad to come get me. But there are no pay phones anymore for the most part. I can see where it could useful to have a cell phone on a run.

Who needs a new product when the fanny pack works so well?

How do you take selfies on every single run unless you take your celly?

HRE wrote:

ukathleticscoach wrote:

I know some mid 14 guys who do their easy runs with a cell phone in their hand if they're on the trails.

Why

John Lenihan was running on Carountool (yeah, I probably spelled that wrong) some years ago, fell and broke his leg. It took him hours to get back down but had a cell phone and managed to call for help. I don't know if he held it in his hands or not. I remember that on the first really long run I took as a high school runner I probably stress fractured my foot about three miles from home and could not put any weight on it. I had to find a pay phone and call my dad to come get me. But there are no pay phones anymore for the most part. I can see where it could useful to have a cell phone on a run.[/quote]

Bring out the wet blanket its not exactly a Bear Grills expedition

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ukathleticscoach wrote:

HRE wrote:

Why

John Lenihan was running on Carountool (yeah, I probably spelled that wrong) some years ago, fell and broke his leg. It took him hours to get back down but had a cell phone and managed to call for help. I don't know if he held it in his hands or not. I remember that on the first really long run I took as a high school runner I probably stress fractured my foot about three miles from home and could not put any weight on it. I had to find a pay phone and call my dad to come get me. But there are no pay phones anymore for the most part. I can see where it could useful to have a cell phone on a run.

Bring out the wet blanket its not exactly a Bear Grills expedition[/quote]

Well. I'm glad you made THAT clear.

I started running with my cellphone because of work. I had to be "on-call" for emergency purposes at various times during the year, so I had to be accessible at all times when it was my week. Thankfully, an emergency never occurred when I was out running, but I needed to have my phone with me to take the call if one did.

I am no longer on the on-call rotation, but I like having my phone with me for logging my run or emergency purposes.

I use the "mapmyrun" app, which helped me log my runs and explore new areas when I was traveling.

I just had a kid and I carried my phone with my for the last month of my wife's pregnancy in case she went into labor. It was awful and I hated it. I will never run with a phone.

I used to be like a lot of you and thought it silly and whatnot to have a phone or god forbid music on a run. Dont care if you are doing 20 miles at 4:50 pace you aint a runner if you got tunes..

As I get older, I really dont care what you all think of me. I use an app for approximate distance/pace, and yup I listen to music (no headphones). Guess Im not a real runner, oh well. Im fine with my weak 7min pace for my runs.

I started running with a phone as a coach so that if one of my kiddos had an emergency. Ive had kids make a wrong turn and a 10 miler turns into a 16 miler, ive had kids pull a muscle or twist an ankle. One got lost in a reservoir because she didnt follow the pack. Guess it was good that I had a phone.

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I'm on call a week out of the month. So I need to have a phone on me at all times during that time and I limit my runs so Im never farther than a couple miles from my house or car.