TWO articles in this month’s issue (p18 and p30) highlight some of the pluses and minuses of running gadgets, which will surely have an even greater part to play in years to come.
I often hear the running greats of a few decades ago scoff at the adherence to technology today. One jokes how he used the minute hand on an analogue watch to time his runs. Distances were guessed at – for the top club runners a 50-minute “tempo” was always 10 miles, it seems. As for heart-rate zone training, they just ran easy or eyeballs-out. It was nearly always the latter, at least as their fading memories recall.