Runner's Rant

[minor7flat5]

@Telemark

…I don’t run with a phone so I can’t call 911…

This I don’t understand.

I want to always have my phone with me when I am running, so I can have a fighting chance at calling emergency services if I am sitting bleeding at the side of the road, or feeling chest pains. My phone is always in a belt pouch.

One of the most amazing things in the 21st century is that I carry a little gadget in my pocket (or pouch) that, with a few quick taps, will bring a team of trained professionals to my aid no matter what horrible thing is going on!

By the way, the new Apple WatchOS 3 will have a feature where a 3-second long button press on the side button automatically calls emergency services at the appropriate number for your location. Very nice.

[Spiderman]

@Scylla

**The viewpoint that I try to adopt when I go for a run is that I am Spider-Man out on patrol. ** My purpose is to help people, right wrongs, use my powers for good, etc. I carry my phone in a fanny pack along with some toilet paper, a sealed sanitary napkin (a cheap aid for trauma,) my pocket knife, a whistle, and some paracord. In the last ten years or so I’ve managed to give out good directions, help somebody push a dead tractor into a garage], helped change a tire, moved kittens off the road that were just sitting there cowering, and smiled and waived at a lot of folks.

Then what am I supposed to do?

[Telemark]

@minor7flat5

This I don’t understand.

I don’t like carrying much when I’m running. If it’s a particularly long run where I’m taking a running pack then I might throw it in, but I don’t typically run with a pack so I don’t have a phone with me.

[running_coach]

@Spiderman

Then what am I supposed to do?

Just hang around.
Though for me, long periods of inactivity make me start climbing the walls.

[xizor]

@minor7flat5

In NJ it is state law that cars must yield to pedestrians at marked crosswalks, but I have been almost hit in multiple occasions by jackasses who don’t believe they need to stop.

The last time this happened, I was crossing a main road with a brightly lit and signed crosswalk at a park entrance, with traffic obediently stopped on both sides as I ran. Some idiot used the shoulder to slip around the stopped car on my right and almost hit me. I smacked my fist in his side window as he brushed past me, to get his attention.

I run into this all too frequently. And some drivers are so self-centered that even if traffic one way is stopped for me, going the other they don’t make the connection and drive right through the clearly marked crosswalk. The only place I have seen this addressed is when I run on Vanderbilt’s campus, because their police force will pull over and ticket cars for that.

As far as pedestrian hazards, the 2 mommies with strollers side by side having a conversation seem to be the hardest to navigate around, it seems even when they notice me they still don’t move over or even pause their conversation.

[Sicks_Ate]

I don’t carry a phone either, unless I think I should for a specific safety reason: excessive heat or cold, new trails, very long runs, ice. But I’m going out right now in 97 degree heat for maybe an hour and won’t take it. I’ll carry a 20 oz. water bottle though. If it was in the 80’s I probably wouldn’t.

[Bryan_Ekers]

@Spiderman

Then what am I supposed to do?

Take great responsibility.

[minor7flat5]

@Sicks_Ate

I don’t carry a phone either, unless I think I should for a specific safety reason: excessive heat or cold, new trails, very long runs, ice. But I’m going out right now in 97 degree heat for maybe an hour and won’t take it. I’ll carry a 20 oz. water bottle though. If it was in the 80’s I probably wouldn’t.

An hour run in 97-degree heat? But it’s dry heat, is it?

There’s two good reasons why I have a YMCA membership: Summer and Winter.

[cerberus]

@minor7flat5

An hour run in 97-degree heat? But it’s dry heat, is it?

There’s two good reasons why I have a YMCA membership: Summer and Winter.

If you can manage the heat, carefully training from June through August can yield good results for Fall events.

[Sicks_Ate]

@minor7flat5

An hour run in 97-degree heat? But it’s dry heat, is it?

There’s two good reasons why I have a YMCA membership: Summer and Winter.

It actually was strangely dry for here this time of year…I realized half way through that breezes felt coolish and my shorts still had dry spots. Checked when I got home and it was 35%.

ETA: Maybe 50% of my run this evening was through shaded neighborhoods…that helps too.

[running_coach]

@Sicks_Ate

It actually was strangely dry for here this time of year…I realized half way through that breezes felt coolish and my shorts still had dry spots. Checked when I got home and it was 35%.

ETA: Maybe 50% of my run this evening was through shaded neighborhoods…that helps too.

That’s dry?
Around here, high 90s get you 13-17%.

[Sicks_Ate]

@running_coach

That’s dry?
Around here, high 90s get you 13-17%.

Yeah, 35% is frankly luxurious. Monday it was 80% and Tuesday it was 75%. Really plays a big factor in the ol’ summer runs.