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Pinning on your number

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idlewild May 2015 7:02am, 31 May 2015 351 posts	0 idlewild I must have run at least 50 races, but I still can't manage to pin my number on straight or without attaching the back of the T-shirt to the front. Why isn't there a Fetch tutorial for this kind of thing?
chunkywizard May 2015 7:29am, 31 May 2015 531 posts	0 chunkywizard I know what do mean, I put my vest on (to stop me pinning it to the back), put the pin through the number and I pinch a bit of top to put the pin through. I am sure there are better ways but this gets me by. CW
Ro5ey May 2015 8:13am, 31 May 2015 3 posts	0 Ro5ey Race belts? That's what l use.... and if the distance is long enough, you can stash gels on them as well.
Girlie May 2015 9:50am, 31 May 2015 10,507 posts	0 Girlie I get someone else to pin it on while I'm in the shirt!
swittle May 2015 9:56am, 31 May 2015 34,036 posts	0 swittle Line the number up with the logo on your vest -FETCH logo is excellent for this- or with the lowest part of the curve in it. Place a flat part of a recycled cereal packet inside the vest and pin away - stops the annoying practice of pinning through front & back! Readjust
swittle May 2015 9:57am, 31 May 2015 34,037 posts	0 swittle ahem .....the number as you pin. All this is best done on a large, flat surface.
Diogenes May 2015 10:12am, 31 May 2015 9,708 posts	0 Diogenes Put your top over the end of an ironing board
McGoohan May 2015 10:28am, 31 May 2015 15,967 posts	0 McGoohan The first race I did, I didn't know about the whole safety pins thing. I thought the number must be adhesive. Well, it looked adhesive right? So I was standing amongst a couple of thousand people licking the back of my number and pressing it to my chest.
Fitz May 2015 10:50am, 31 May 2015 1,211 posts	0 Fitz Ha, McG - that's brilliant. These days I use those press-on number-securer things (they probably have a more elegant proper name than that). They're less faff than safety pins but not quite as flat and neat as they pinch the paper a bit.
cackleberry May 2015 10:51am, 31 May 2015 748 posts	0 cackleberry LOL McGoohan! I once pinned mine through my vest and my running bra, didn't know I'd done that til I got stuck getting changed at the end of the race...