123 Cellphone Tips for Runners and Walkers: Get Moving, #2
By Kirk Mahoney
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Updated June 12, 2014, to Edition 2
Are you noticing that you are getting into unsafe situations when using a cellphone while you are out running or walking?
Are you sometimes left with a feeling that you have been discourteous when you have used your cellphone around other runners or walkers?
Are you having trouble making sense of your cellphone's technological benefits to your running or walking?
If it seems as though how you use your cellphone may be faltering while you are on runs or walks, then perhaps it is time for some tips. Maybe you simply need some friendly reminders and a bit of education.
123 Cellphone Tips for Runners and Walkers tells you how to be safer and more courteous with your cellphone while getting the most out of its features.
Take it from Kirk Mahoney, who has several marathons and many shorter races under his hydration belt. For example, he used to run and walk without carrying a cellphone. Then he joined a marathon training program and learned by example from his coaches to always take a cellphone with him on every run or walk. And he made that one of his most important tips.
What drove Kirk to expand that one tip into 123 tips? The answer may surprise you.
With some two decades of telecommunications and Internet experience, Kirk knew that there had to be a better way for others to avoid making the same safety, courtesy, and technology mistakes that he and fellow runners and walkers were making with cellphones.
So he applied his same passion for research to this book that he applies to what he presents at SpryFeet.com. Running or walking with your cellphone in the most safe, courteous, and technologically-savvy way requires much more than a handful of tips. It requires this book's 123 tips.
These tips work so well, in fact, that Mahoney had to share them with the world.
If you, too, want to be safer, more courteous, and more technologically savvy with your cellphone, this book provides the 123 cellphone tips that you need as a runner or walker.
Kirk Mahoney
I believe that we have a moral duty to be happy around others and that our happiness positively affects our running and walking. So, I write books under the SpryFeet.com imprint to help readers to become happier runners and walkers. Join the SpryFeet.com Readers Club to get ... * A free ebook * Sneak peeks at his future books * Entry into his birthday-month drawings * Opportunities to beta-read his future books * Weekly "Single Biggest Question" newsletter * Get More Clarity, Get More Happiness guide Join Today! http://www.spryfeet.com/free
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123 Cellphone Tips for Runners and Walkers - Kirk Mahoney
Preparing to Use Your Cellphone
Tip 1: Include an ICE
number in your cellphone’s contacts list.
The acronym ICE
stands for In Case of Emergency. Emergency responders since 2005 have been taught to look up the name ICE
on cellphones found at automobile accidents and other emergency-response scenes.
If you are knocked unconscious during an emergency but you have your cellphone with you, then an emergency responder will look for ICE
in your cellphone and call that telephone number. This will let the responder speak with the person (such as your spouse) who is your in-case-of-emergency contact.
So, add an ICE
entry to your cellphone’s contacts list.
Suppose that you want to make your spouse your ICE contact, and suppose that your spouse already is in your cellphone’s contacts list. If your cellphone blocks you from setting up two different names to call the same telephone number, then use one of these workarounds:
• Put ICE -
at the beginning of the name of your emergency contact in your cellphone. This also tells an emergency responder the name of the person being called.
• Get a free Google Voice (GV) number, set it up to forward calls to your emergency contact, and add that GV number as the ICE
contact.
Tip 2: Put an emergency contact’s cellphone number on your ID tag.
You can help an emergency responder to help you by including an emergency contact’s cellphone number on an ID tag that you carry with you – in your pocket, on your wrist, or attached to a shoe.
Why should you plan to include on your ID tag an emergency contact’s cellphone number and not a landline or voice-over-IP (VoIP) telephone number?
Here are three reasons:
1. An ever-increasing percentage of the population has dropped wireline telephone service in favor of cellphone service, so you may have no choice.
2. People who have cellphones tend to carry them with them, which makes it easy for emergency responders to reach them immediately.
3. Many people who have cellphone service and a landline or VoIP telephone expect to receive more calls on their cellphones than on another phone, so their habits are such that they are more likely to answer a ringing cellphone than to answer a ringing landline or VoIP telephone.
Tip 3: Pick a ringtone that won’t embarrass you in front of other runners and walkers.
Suppose you run or walk with people who are not bothered by the sound of a cellphone ringing. This does not mean that absolutely anything goes regarding ringtones. You should still be careful with your ringtone selection.
As an example, if you have a clip from the song Sexual Healing
play as your ringtone on your cellphone when your spouse calls you, then, depending on the company that you keep, you might become embarrassed in front of fellow runners or walkers.
As another example, perhaps you have chosen as your ringtone for all callers a clip from a song with explicit lyrics. Would you really not mind, if absolutely any of your fellow trainees or racers were to hear that ringtone? Think twice about that.
As a third example, if your spouse or partner has recorded a spoken ringtone for you to hear specifically when he or she calls your cellphone, do you really want others to hear it? Once they do hear it, you should expect that they will memorize it and then possibly tease you mercilessly with Hi, honey. It’s me. Answer the phone!
... or whatever words your spouse or partner has recorded.
Tip 4: Consider selecting a ringtone for your cellphone that will make fellow runners or walkers laugh.
If the Hi, honey. It’s me. Answer the phone.
type of ringtone makes people laugh and you will not be embarrassed by it, then by all means enable it on your cellphone when you are out for a run or walk.
Or, if you have ringtone clip of a call-back or slogan used by a comedian who is popular among your fellow runners or walkers, then enable that ringtone on your cellphone.
Or, use self-deprecating humor by recording yourself saying something that usually makes others laugh because it’s so you
– in other words, your trademark expression.
Why set up your cellphone to use a humorous ringtone?
Laughter is a good way to break tension, and it’s a good way to get people to inspire more deeply, which can be beneficial to their training or racing.
Tip 5: Don’t set your cellphone’s ringtone volume so high that it will annoy others.
Suppose you have checked with your training buddies and confirmed that they will not be bothered by the ringing of your cellphone in the event that someone calls you while you are together on a run or walk.
And, suppose that you have determined that a humorous ringtone is popular among your fellow runners or walkers.
This does not mean that you should set the volume high, for at least three reasons:
1. Some ringtones at high volume may cause pain to others.
2. Some ringtones, while pleasing to you and your training or racing partners, are not pleasing to outsiders.
3. The idea behind the tip about talking in a normal or quiet voice on your cellphone when you are out running or walking applies to the volume of your ringtone, too.
Tip 6: Learn how to use the GPS navigation system in your cellphone.
Most cellphones today have GPS navigation systems built into them. If your cellphone has one, then learn how to use it. Here are five reasons why you should:
1. You can use your cellphone’s GPS navigation system to map your training route.
2. You can use the GPS in your cellphone to identify exactly where you are in the event that you must call someone because of a medical emergency for you, for a training buddy, or for anyone else you meet while you are working out.
3. You can use your cellphone’s GPS system to look up a turn when the other map that you have with you on your run or walk does not seem to be correct at a particular intersection.
4. You can use the GPS in your cellphone to identify how close you are to someone in an emergency who calls you during your run or walk.
5. You can use your cellphone’s GPS navigation system to find a post-workout restaurant or cafe at which training buddies have agreed to meet for a delicious meal and camaraderie.
Tip 7: Learn how to use the alarms in your cellphone.
Almost every cellphone has one or more alarms. You may be able to set them as one-use alarms, as daily alarms, as weekday alarms, as weekend alarms, or something else.
There are many ways that you can use the alarms in your cellphone to support your running or walking:
• You can set an alarm to wake you for an early workout or race.
• You can set an alarm to remind you to take a break during the day for a mid-day workout.
• You can set an alarm to tell you when to turn around during a timed out-and-back run or