Forget dating apps, I put my phone number on a sign at the NYC marathon — here’s how it went

Desperate times telephone for hopeless measures.

A New York City singleton sick of endlessly swiping connected making love apps sewage imaginative during past Sunday’s marathon by holding up a elephantine placard pinch her telephone number connected it successful a brazen bid to pull a imaginable suitor who was running.

“Most group who person been connected nan making love segment successful this metropolis cognize that it’s beautiful painful,” Lindsey Gheduzzi, 33, told The Post.

“I deliberation nan apps are benignant of connected their measurement out; they’re not really cutting it for astir group anymore… truthful I was like, ‘You cognize what? I’m an progressive person. All these group are active. Let’s sprout my shot.'”

And that’s precisely what she did.

In big, bold letters, nan Astoria resident wrote an eye-catching building that would extremity immoderate marathon runner successful their tracks: “Strong legs, awesome glutes, telephone me,” alongside her digits.

“It’s thing fun,” she explained of nan mischievous message. “It’s flirty.”

Gheduzzi, who useful arsenic an operations head astatine a rule firm, likened making love successful nan Big Apple to marathon moving itself, describing it arsenic “tough” and “exhausting.”

“There are truthful galore options. I deliberation portion of nan rumor is that group find 1 point that’s incorrect [with a prospective partner] and it’s like, ‘moving connected to nan next,'” she explained.

The azygous millennial had a crippled scheme to find her marathon beau: she group up shop astir halfway on nan marathon way successful Williamsburg, joined by friends and family, including her mom, who was optimistic that nan cheeky stunt would beryllium a success.

“She was like, ‘This could beryllium nan first time of nan remainder of your life,'” Gheduzzi laughed.

However, erstwhile it yet came clip to denote her singleness and springiness retired her telephone number, Gheduzzi quickly became self-conscious.

“I mean, let’s beryllium real: I was fundamentally holding an advertisement for myself,” she told The Post. “So erstwhile I first held it up, I was a small shy…I was like, ‘Oh, this is simply a small nerve-racking.‘”

But her apprehension was instantly alleviated by nan runners’ reactions.

“I started getting laughs, smiles and group stopped and flexed their limb muscles astatine me,” Gheduzzi recalled. “One older man ran by and past benignant of ran backmost and stopped and said, ‘Where were you 40 years ago?'”

“For them to get a small footwear retired of thing while they’re perchance struggling, that was fun.”

The New Yorker wasn’t nan only 1 to clasp up a flirty motion connected Sunday. The Post photographers snapped different spectators brandishing bawdy messages, including 1 that publication “No 1 likes a speedy finisher.”

While Gheduzzi hasn’t yet had immoderate calls from eligible runners, she doesn’t regret putting herself retired location — and having nosy successful nan process.

“It would person been bully to person a fewer telephone calls aliases texts travel through, but it’s okay,” she stated. “Marathon Day is my favourite time retired of nan twelvemonth successful nan city.”

If you’re a azygous marathon runner willing successful a day pinch Lindsey, email acourt@nypost.com