Trail Run

Turn off, tune out, drop in

The maxim ‘If it didn’t happen on Strava, it didn’t happen’ is gaining increasing amounts of credence as the ubiquity of the GPS has made us a culture of tuned-in runners. Many of us would not even consider running without a watch. We need to know our cadence, pace, speed, heart rate and any number of other variables.

If you own a GPS watch, you have probably done it – delayed the start of your run while you impatiently wait for it to get a location fix. You consider heading off before it has found its clearly errant satellite, but

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