Five ways to liven up easy runs enabled by mobile technology
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In a sense, road races for the masses became obsolete about twenty years ago, when GPS watches became available. Suddenly, there was no longer a “need” for non-elite perambulators interested in how fast they could cover America’s streets on foot to pay for the privilege of gathering at inconvenient times to proceed along pothole-riddled courses preselected by others, often in parades including tens of thousands of bodies on mismeasured or mismarked routes. Today, anyone who can afford such a watch and wants to know how fast they can cover a given distance within a tiny margin of error no longer needs to fork over $35 plus gas and food costs to find out what kind of 5K shape he or she is in.
Five ways to liven up easy runs enabled by mobile technology
Five ways to liven up easy runs enabled by…
Five ways to liven up easy runs enabled by mobile technology
In a sense, road races for the masses became obsolete about twenty years ago, when GPS watches became available. Suddenly, there was no longer a “need” for non-elite perambulators interested in how fast they could cover America’s streets on foot to pay for the privilege of gathering at inconvenient times to proceed along pothole-riddled courses preselected by others, often in parades including tens of thousands of bodies on mismeasured or mismarked routes. Today, anyone who can afford such a watch and wants to know how fast they can cover a given distance within a tiny margin of error no longer needs to fork over $35 plus gas and food costs to find out what kind of 5K shape he or she is in.