Nick runs: quick start
Two minutes, and you know how to follow Nick on race day. The long version is the guide.
1. Open the link, keep it
The page is run.nickytalky.com. On an iPhone, open it in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen: it opens full screen and is the quickest way back on race day. On Android, Chrome offers the same from its menu. Nothing to install, no account, no password.
Keep the page open on race day: the big moments (he's off, halfway, the final stretch, the finish) take the screen for a few seconds, and there is nothing to subscribe to. If you would rather not be interrupted, there is a switch for that below.
2. What you are looking at
- The dot is Nick, from his watch every ten to fifteen seconds, with the trail behind him. When the watch goes quiet the page says so and estimates from his pace.
- The tiles: Distance, Pace (his last mile, with an arrow for the last three minutes), Heart rate, Elapsed, and the Finish estimate. Tap any tile for more: charts, choices, miles or kilometres.
- 🏅 OFFICIAL on a number means it came from the race's timing mats, not from his watch. Everything else is the watch's own word.
- The course bar and the map: where he is, the timing mats, the cheer spots, the friend zones.
3. Send a cheer
Type a few words in Send a cheer, add your name, send. It lands on Nick's watch, your name first, in the next batch. He reads them as he runs; the page shows yours in the list with the mile it reached him at. Before the gun your cheer is held and arrives with the first batch after the start, as a roll call of names.
4. If you are on the course
- Put me on the map: your corner, and which side of the road you are on as Nick runs. Pick the side; the page tells you which sidewalk that is. He sees your name, your side and the distance on his watch and on his own page, so he looks the right way.
- Plan my spot does the same before you get there: a mile or a tap on the map and a rough time.
- When will Nick reach me? gives a countdown. Within half a mile of your pin the page switches to friend mode: faster updates, a time window, and the stretch of road he could be on.
- Where to cheer lists the spots with his expected time at each.
5. The moments
When something big happens, the page takes over for a few seconds: he's off, halfway, the final stretch, the finish. If he asks for love or the page sees him fading, you get a nudge to cheer. If you are watching the course and do not want the page to jump, flip Don't interrupt me next to the status pill: the moments arrive as a quiet banner instead (the finish is the one exception: it greets everyone). Anyone pinned just ahead of him gets that calm automatically.
6. Photos
Nick posts photos from the course as he runs, tagged with where he was. A new one pops up for everyone once in a while; the rest arrive quietly in the strip. Tap one for full size.
7. After the finish
The page becomes the result: his time, the official splits, the hoorays. Watch the replay plays the whole race in two minutes, every cheer and friend on the map, and it has its own link to share.
8. Between races
Nick's training runs show at run.nickytalky.com/run/: the same page without the race parts, his watch's own numbers, and cheers that still reach his wrist. All runs in the header lists every race and run.
If something looks wrong
The page says where every number comes from and how old it is. "Estimating" means the watch has been quiet for a moment; the dot catches up when it is back. If the page itself will not load, wait a minute and reload: on race day it stays up, and the record stays on it afterwards.