Does anyone know a good exercise regime to prevent fatigue and discomfort when standing for long periods with an arm extended horizontally to point runners in the right direction?
Does anyone know a good exercise regime to prevent fatigue and discomfort when standing for long periods with an arm extended horizontally to point runners in the right direction?
Turn 180 degrees and use the other arm!
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Stick with an arrow on it. Cure the cause not the symptom.
Don’t bother pointing - it’s a fell race, they can go whichever way they want!
No, it wasn't a fell race, Navigator; it was parkrun. So, Llani Boy, it wouldn't seem in accord with the friendly traditions of parkrun to have my back turned on the runners half the time!
Actually, I was posted to a rather interesting marshalling position yesterday. I was at a corner of the playing fields, where the runners come past after half a lap (about 0.5km) and then again after another lap (about 1.5km), when they turn off the playing fields. Then they return to the playing fields from a different direction about a bit more than 4km. So I had leaders lapping the stragglers on the first laps and having to be directed opposite ways; and then leaders returning from the north to be directed west at the same time as stragglers arriving from the south to be directed east.
Anyway, I might ask the Run Director for an arrow on a stick (or maybe two!) if I volunteer again.
Ah, parkrun is different! Maybe you need a traditional shepherd’s crook to rest your arm on!
Our local park run has signs - lap 1 this way, lap 2 the other etc. Then you just have to gesticulate appropriately for those who seem incapable of reading them.
Originally Posted by PeteS
Hmm, gesticulate appropriately
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