Carrying cell phone on runs

Would you go for a swim with your cell phone?

Didn't think so. No cell phones on runs. Geesh. What is wrong with people. Most the places I run wouldn't even get cell phone reception anyways.

1. I never bring my phone on a run.

I also don't ever listen to music, but I might listen to podcasts if headphone cables weren't so annoying and I didn't have to carry a phone

I'm always on call, so yes.

I run home from work in which case I need to carry it home. I also need it when I'm on call.... Does needing to report to the ER in order to save someone's life count as an "EMERGENCY"????I use an armband. Or sometimes i just put it in the pocket of my running pants. I actually surprisingly don't notice that I have my phone in my pocket. The armband is a bit more annoying as it moves around losens, tightens and does weird stuff.

9999999999 wrote:

If you can't go for a run w/o your cell phone, you seriously have a big problem. And don't spew that garbage about needing it in an "emergency."

me? option 1 - No phone.

wife? option 3 - Phone in armband. She also uses the Nike app to record her runs and hates running without the app. I am proud to say that I harassed enough that she no longer wears her ear buds when running on the roads.

OverTheHillAndBackAgain wrote:

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I run home from work in which case I need to carry it home. I also need it when I'm on call.... Does needing to report to the ER in order to save someone's life count as an "EMERGENCY"????

I use an armband. Or sometimes i just put it in the pocket of my running pants. I actually surprisingly don't notice that I have my phone in my pocket. The armband is a bit more annoying as it moves around losens, tightens and does weird stuff.

So if you are on a 10 mile run and are 5 miles from home, how does getting a phone call help you?

Can people who say they need phones for "emergencies" and responsibilities" clarify something here --- what do you do, do laps around your car in case your phone rings and you need to jump in and drive off somewhere?

sympathy for the devil wrote:

Can people who say they need phones for "emergencies" and responsibilities" clarify something here --- what do you do, do laps around your car in case your phone rings and you need to jump in and drive off somewhere?

Of course not. However, the chance that you at your farthest point away from your car is slim. The last family emergency I had only run less than a mile and was able to get home quickly. Don't need to run from my car because I have 30 miles of trails right by my house.

El Jefe wrote:

1. I never bring my phone on a run.

I also don't ever listen to music, but I might listen to podcasts if headphone cables weren't so annoying and I didn't have to carry a phone

It isn't 1990. Invest in a pair of wireless headphones. No reason to mess with cables.

sympathy for the devil wrote:

Can people who say they need phones for "emergencies" and responsibilities" clarify something here --- what do you do, do laps around your car in case your phone rings and you need to jump in and drive off somewhere?

I used to but only when I was on call or during a lunch run in case something happened back at the office. Servers go down and what not. A lot of times I could explain to my boss over the phone how to fix whatever it was so it would not create anymore downtime until I got back and showered and whatnot.

Well I'm obviously not going to go on an out and back run when I'm on call. Think before you speak. Sheesh.

So what do you do, run around your desk?

Cell phones are a c*nt. Like I go into the f*cking woods to hear a bunch of middle class white women standing in the middle of a narrow trail on their phones snapping pictures and whining to their boyfriends about some mundane trivialities. Like I drive 20 minutes out of the noise and concrete to see some obese white middle class men having their phones on speaker playing 20 year butt rock you can hear 50 meters away.

djgylend wrote:Like I go into the f*cking woods to hear a bunch of middle class white women standing in the middle of a narrow trail on their phones snapping pictures and whining to their boyfriends about some mundane trivialities.

Yeah. I go trail running and I'm always coming up on people who are out in the woods walking along and yacking into their cell phones about nothing. It's some sort of illness.

djgylend wrote:

Cell phones are a c*nt. Like I go into the f*cking woods to hear a bunch of middle class white women standing in the middle of a narrow trail on their phones snapping pictures and whining to their boyfriends about some mundane trivialities. Like I drive 20 minutes out of the noise and concrete to see some obese white middle class men having their phones on speaker playing 20 year butt rock you can hear 50 meters away.

I'm sure they don't like going into the woods and encounter such crude and vile people as yourself either - guess that makes you even.

Why on earth do you care one way or another? If they want to walk/talk, whatever, that is their choice. By the way, you also sound like a racist on top of being crude/rude.

If I'm out of town I carry it, mostly for gps.

I've carried it maybe 2 times on long trail runs near home.

No, never, cell phones are annoying.

No, you MORON. I run around a track. I round around pond. I run around resevoir. I do 2-3 smaller loops.

I DO ONE OF THE OTHER MILLION THINGS ON THE SPECTRUM BETWEEN RUNNING IN CIRCLES AROUND MY DESK AND RUNNING AN OUT-AND-BACK ROUTE.

Just because 90% of LetsRunners work trivial jobs waiting tables, selling shoes, or some other meaningless 9-5 gig, doesn't mean that aren't some of us who have legitimate responsibilities. One of the ways we manage those responsibilities is by running with our phones. It's small price to pay to still be able to run 7 days a week while working 60-70 hours a week. And like I said originally, I also run home from work, which means I need to carry my phone on some runs.

lol over the hill, am in much the same position as you and find this exchange hilarious.