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We all know that we work out better and more enthusiastically when we're working toward a goal. Whether that goal is distance, time, speed, heart rate, terrain, or anything else, most people respond well to a challenge that they can quantify. "Run faster" or "run longer," for most of us, really isn't enough to spur that extra effort.
For serious runners, GPS running watches have become a really popular way of not only motivating, but keeping track of serious and ambitious work-outs. Mile markers and overall times provide acceptable overviews of how your run has gone. But for the serious runner, more detailed information can really be helpful to gauging your progress.
Using global positioning technology, these GPS running watches keep track of your precise location as your run progresses. It can use this information to not only plot out where you have gone and how far a distance that is, but also how fast you go through each leg of your run.
Say your run begins on the street where you live, then you go through a local park, to a running trail along a beach, and back. By tracking not only your distance but your speed, you can calculate an average speed for the overall workout, but even more importantly, a speed for each different area that you pass.
This information helps you get a better sense of your strong points and weak points as a runner. It helps you see how fast you are when you are fastest, and how much you slow down when you do.
You can also determine why you slow down: are you distracted by other runners or traffic, or are you just getting lax? Perhaps you know you need to go easy, and you can see what that looks like.
GPS running watches also help you keep track, literally, of where you are. Particular models set digital markers of where your course progresses, so it's easier to follow home.
This is extra helpful if you do trail running, or other running in an environment that is not so easy to backtrack. So no matter what type of goal you have, a way of tracking it digitally can be extra helpful in keeping yourself on task.
Lisa Sunomono writes articles about running watch with GPS and runner GPS watch on the website GPS Running Watch Review.
What the difference is between running shoes, training shoes, and trail running shoes?
Trying to pick out a new pair of shoes to get for running and would like to know the difference between the types so I can choose which would be the best for me to invest in. Thanks.
i agree with just get running shoes. Trainers are suppose to be all around good but they lack comfort and support if want to run. Trail running are very similar to running but are usually darker in color and provide more grip. runner provides the best support comfort and takes a lot of impact when you run. if you get a good pair of running shoes you will save your knees. don't go trainer if you run a lot.
Rocky Raccoon 100 Trail Run 2010 20 Mile Loop Flyover
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 Nike Alvord 5 Size 9 Grey and Blue Trail Running Shoes EUC  US $13.00
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 New Balance MT915OR Mens Trail Running Shoes UK Size 11.5 (EU 46.5) US $71.41
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 Asics running trail shoe US $.99
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 NEW!! NEW!! Men's New Balance 10 Minimus Trail Running Shoes - Size - 10.5EE US $40.99
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 Men's Montrail - Trail Running Shoe - Size 10.5 US $9.50
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