101 uses for a mobile!

[emmilou]

Where's Graeme when you need him???? He's not posted for a little while but is in my club and am sure he won't mind me speaking for him!!!

At the fell relays in chipping recently Graeme's lovely wife made him take his mobile with him on his leg. He was on leg 3 so in a pair and the 2 of them approached a damsel in distress who subsequently had broken her ankle??

JJ -was it an ankle break can't quite remember - couldn't walk on it anyway.

ANYWAY - As graeme had his phone AND the mobile number of MR - yes his Mrs made him write that down too! He could use his phone and call those that were needed to be called. Subsequently the rescue services could reach her a hell of a lot quiker than they would/could have done if someone had to run all the way back etc.

On this occasion the fact that someone DID have a mobile phone made all the difference.

[Grouse]

What? 999?

[Grouse]

Sorry - realised you said MOBILE MR number.

[DazTheSlug]

only just discovered this thread
assumed from the title that it was some sort of jokey thing
or, if it was to do with mobile phones, of no interest to me as I do not own one

just to register my 2-penn'orth:

I will not ever enter a race where a mobile phone is compulsory.

If it becomes "standard kit" I will stop entering races full stop and just run on my own.

I appreciate that carrying one makes you a bit safer, but if I wanted to stay safe on a race day I would stay at home in bed with the curtains drawn.

[Grouse]

This ruling is discriminatory and unlawful surely - what about members of the Amish religion - they can't carry mobile phones and so are prevented from entering this race. My own religion prevents me from entering too.





I'm a Luddhist.

[fellhell]

Not passing judgement at all but
I am surprised at the number of people who seem to have internet but no mobile phone!

[Grouse]

Why?...... ( the dots are only there because the message was too short without them.)

[dominion]

So all these people who don't have a phone are prepared to buy waterproofs with taped seams, hat, gloves, compass that they may/may not be able to use, maps, bum bag, whistle but won't pay a tenner for a phone from Orange which with a 20 quid top-up voucher that won't expire, they can use for any races that stipulate phone required? The phone and voucher is a damn sight cheaper than a cheap set of half decent waterproofs.

I rarely if ever use my waterproofs unless I go to a race, infact, I've never worn my waterproof trousers, but I don't resent the costs of buying them to be allowed to enter certain races.

No ones forcing you to carry the phone 24/7 once you've got it. It's just something else to take to the race for if it's required.

[George]

Some food for thought here. I would have said - "always go with the organiser", but this is assuming that the organiser (and organising committee presumably in this instance) is actually sane.

[fellhell]

Why?...... ( the dots are only there because the message was too short without them.)

Both modern forms of technology...similar running costs...I would have figured people who had internet would have a mobile phone, at least in the household!
Appears I was wrong.
Dom makes a good point, but no one has picked up on my issue of phone breakage - has anyone elses phone packed in due to extreme conditions - I imagine the cheaper phones would be more fragile??