Pros and cons to the other styles? (wristband, ankleband, shoe)

I got my hubby and I an ankle one a year ago - love it! Never notice it.

I bought and use the shoe style road ID and was rotating it between my shoes as I have 2-3 pairs that I rotate between. I was going to buy another one so I wasn't taking off and on so much and a friend told me that she uses a real dog tag. I went to the pet store and for $5 had a tag made with all of my info on it and I use that now instead of rotating the road id. Cost effective and works well.

I have bought four of the dog tag style ones so far, two for me and two for my wife. The first two were from our apartment and dating days, and the more recent two were updated contact info from our house and with her new name now that we are married. I really like them. It does flop around when you run w/o a shirt or if you have a really loose collar on your shirt, but I always wear a singlet when I race and that holds it against my chest well enough. It is also handy if I want to throw a key on it for easier access than having to reach into the key pocket on the shorts, and thus safer from losing the key. Of course, then it makes an annoying jangling sound so I wind up running with the key behind my neck and the ID in front. The reason that I chose the dog tag style tags were because they are universally recognized and unlikely to become separated from my body in an accident. I have been hit by a car before and I'm not a big fan of the idea of somebody not seeing something on my shoe or not having any identification at all. I have never had the problem with getting hairs snagged, and neither has my wife who has much longer hair than me. At least, if she does snag her hairs, she has never mentioned it to me and she still wears it when she goes out to workout. No matter what you do, always wear some sort of ID even if you decide against the dog tag style. I'm paranoid; not only do I wear the road ID, but I also print my name and emergency contact phone numbers on my bibs when I race. I reviewed my road id at my site if you want to read it; it basically rehashes what I wrote here.

I've registered for the inaugural Manchester City Marathon in New Hampshire. My kids live in Manchester with my ex, so it can be an "All In (what's left of) the Family" kinda thing. Sunday November 4th is the big day. ... Thanks to all for the feedback, it's greatly appreciated.

I am considering running this. The stickler is that I am running the Marine Corps Marathon the week before Manchester, since I didn't know about the Manchester race until a few weeks ago. I'm leaning towards running the Pisgah 50k instead of Manchester, since that's at the beginning of September, but I haven't made a final decision yet.

I'm thinking about "DO NOT RESUSCITATE" OK, now that IS the funniest thing I've seen. And BTW I love your handle. But my dogs hate it. And I thought I was a Bad Dawg....

Too frugal  to order ID. DW insist I need it. Printed  contact  info on paper. Cut it out, placed  small section of business card in the middle of two cut outs(card board).. Placed the 3 sections together and covered with larger tape(mailing tape). Microwaved for 1 minute to seal. Punched a hole in the corner and attached to each pair of shoes. Only time will tell how long it last.

 

The frugal part is not completely true. I have a set of military dog tags from back in the day. No phone numbers but it does have my blood type.

 

PS: Now, I am going to make a sign o to put on the back of race shirts. RA - MM # 3340. DW was/ is a scrapbooker. Apparently I have way to much vacation time on my hands. Long run tomorrow, thankfully.

I'll be sure to post when it arrives.

 

Holy jump start Batman, I didn't think you could get a thread from 2007 to turn over in this weather.  These late breaking updates just in:

 

It arrived a while ago, I forgot to post.  I wore it for Manchester and I'm still wearing it as I type.  Love my boomerang tag.

 

 

And it's darned nice to see so many of the Class of '07 still at it, even if they don't post much anymore.  I hate to click on a training log like AlanF's and find lots of zeroes, so Modal's log was a very pleasant surprise.

Well why didn't I think of this? I can just hear the guys from the Guinness ads: using dog tags for dog tags? BRILLIANT! I can attest to the quality and service from www.boomerangtags.com for dog tags, my greyhound has worn a plastic tag from them for years and it still looks brand new. They are very prompt and they're really helpful if you have any questions. I headed on over to the site, and was very happy to see that they now carry man tags. For $8.79 including shipping and tax, it's pretty hard to go wrong. I'll be sure to post when it arrives.

 

I don't see any reference to "man tags" on their site.