Where do you wear your race number? (Read 3365 times)

Shorts, usually. That way if you remove a shirt layer you still have it on.

I attach or pin it to a race belt or running belt, so that means it hangs down as if on shorts/pants...

Depends upon the day. As long as it is visible from the front you are all set. I normally wear it on my singlet unless it is huge and would cover my team name, in which case it goes on the shorts. I'll also wear it on my shorts if I think it's likely that I'll be stripping a layer during the run, although I usually just start out in the least that I think I'll need during the race and call it good.

If you care about accurate results, wear it on the front, where it is easily visible. Timers usually have people doing "manual" recording at the finish line, even when a race is chip-timed. If a chip malfunctions, or falls off, the "manuals" are used to properly place finishers. If your number can't be seen by the folks at the finish line, you may not get entered into the "manual" list. If there is a problem with chips or equipment, it is much more difficult to put you in the right finish order. If it is a tag race, where they pull the tag off and put it on a spindle at the end of the chute, if a spindle gets out-of-order, the "manuals" are used to correct the situation. While some runners don't think having their number visible is important, it is. Timing is the most-important reason. But, some courses (if they have an out-and-back section) have people at the far end of the spur recording numbers. This is to assure that runners went all the way to the turnaround. If you are not recorded, you may be removed from the results. Finally, if there is a race photographer, the number is the only way they have to list the photos. If yours can't be seen, you have to look through all un-indexed photos. What a pain. On the front, visible at all times.

Speaking of the tags at the bottom of our numbers... Saturday's race was a combination of three loops... a 4 mile loop followed by a 12 mile loop (although I was told it was 14, more on that in my race report) followed by a 10 mile loop. At the end of the 4 mile loop (aka "nothing like the finish chute of the race"), they collected the tags. Which, since many of us were clumped together still, made for an intensely brief circus as we all pulled off our own tags and tried to decide whether the volunteer needed the tags in some semblance of order (apparently she did not, I saw them all heaped in a box 5 hours later exactly where we had given them to her). I have no idea what was up here. Then again, it was only one of several weirdisms about this race.

I do find huge race bibs annoying tho.

You could do some origami like my friend the Black Widow, Jess managed to work it down small enough to wear it for the Good Times Bikini Race. Not a lot of real estate to pin it on there.

Haha, that guys loving it.

I noticed that, too!