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    Data Dilemma

    Sep 05, 2021 5 minutes
    By Ashley Mateo

    During a 28-kilometre run last year, I logged 26,660 steps and burned 6,363 kilojoules over two and a half hours. Sounds like a successful marathon training, right? Not according to my fitness tracker, which deemed that run “unproductive” based on the pace and heart rate data it recorded (which can be thrown off by external variables like the weather). Despite the fact that my training was right on point according to my IRL coach, the tracker sent me into a mental tailspin, throwing my game off for weeks as I obsessed over changing my status back to “productive” instead of paying attention to how my body actually felt.

    I’m not the only one letting numbers dictate my relationship with fitness. Chances are, you know (or are) someone who’s

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