Rme wrote:
Some reasons why you need to be reached and carry a phone, witnessed car accident, respond to work asap, break your leg need a ride, family emergency, wife wants milk on your way home, music, maps if u get lost. take a selfie. I am not as fast as I was but I can still manage a phone and still do an 8 mile run at 6:40 pace. the only time I don't have a phone if I am doing a track workout.
These are reasons you WANT to be reached and carry a phone. And that's OK. But don't tell yourself that you ever NEED to be reached. That's just egomania.
witnessed car accident - OK, fine. I have yet to witness a car accident in a totally isolated area and need to use a phone, but fine. You want to carry a phone in case you witness a car accident in a place devoid of other humans.
respond to work asap - Sure. Depending on the work you might want to be reachable with no interruptions in availability.
break your leg need a ride - Oh, come on now. A genuine immobilizing medical emergency seems to have happened to one person on here, with probably tens or hundreds of thousands of runs between us posters.
family emergency - Like what real emergency? House on fire? Injury? Captain Oblivious is right to say that a person could reasonably WANT to be reached not a minute later than instantaneously in these cases, but you don't need to be.
wife wants milk on your way home, music, maps if u get lost. take a selfie - OK, now you're just getting silly. "Need"??
I'm enjoying the back and forth on this, but really I could give two sweet sharts what anyone else runs with. Carry your phone in grocery bag around your waist in case of a great selfie opportunity if you want. I just find it interesting when people have an honest belief that unlike runners in the 20th century they now NEED to carry a phone.