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  • Gene Lu uses GPS to map his runs on a phone.

  • These days, that's pretty normal.

  • But the way he does it, isn't like most people.

  • Gene is drawing something here.

  • Before he runs, Gene spends hours mapping a route to create an elaborate drawing.

  • He then traces it on the ground using GPS during the run.

  • Sometimes I try to remember not the next turn, but maybe two or three turns ahead.

  • Sort of, like, a way to distract myself on the run.

  • Turning your run into a doodle isn't an easy way to train.

  • But something else he's doing is.

  • Using GPS can make you into a better runner, no matter what route follow.

  • In the 1970s, the US military created the Global Positioning System, or GPS, by launching a network of satellites into orbit.

  • Transmitting precise, jam-resistant radio navigational signals.

  • A GPS receiver measures its distance from multiple satellites in order to pinpoint where you are on Earth.

  • By the year 2000, the government made the system fully available for public use, and around that time the first GPS watches were released for consumers.

  • Clunky design and high prices meant only hardcore data nerds were using them for exercise.

  • But over time, devices became cheaper and sleeker and eventually, mobile apps made GPS tracking widely accessible.

  • These days, it's commonly used by casual runners.

  • I've become very accustomed to running with technology on me...

  • When I go running without my stuff, I sort of feel like...

  • Almost like drowning a little bit.

  • Performance in running is measured by just a few variables: distance, time, and speed.

  • GPS makes it easy to monitor those elements.

  • In 2016, Runner's World conducted a survey of their global audience and found that 80% of runners used GPS to track their runs.

  • I go for a run, I track my run, and I am given that data about that run.

  • So based on that, I can now do it again and either up my distance, lower it, so on so forth.

  • Using GPS to collect data about your runs makes it easy to track your accomplishments.

  • But there's another reason GPS tracking is gaining popularity.

  • Putting your run on a map with a time and pace, gives runners a better story -- to tell on social media.

  • What's missing from it is, I think, the narrative to that run.

  • Like, what was that run about?

  • Where did you run?

  • Was it hard?

  • Was it easy?

  • I think social media has sort of changed how people approach running.

  • For me one of the big factors or one of the big motivations for running these shapes is to be able to share it.

  • To a lot of people, this looks like bragging.

  • I'm going to share it to social media, I'm going to get all these likes and then I'm going to do more.

  • But, it turns out, sharing your runs on social media actually makes you a better runner.

  • This visualization comes from researchers at MIT that analyzed GPS data from millions of runners and correlated it to social network sharing.

  • They found that when runners share their accomplishments, they run farther, faster and longer.

  • According to their research, “an additional kilometer run by friends can inspire someone

  • to run an additional three-tenths of a kilometer and an additional ten minutes.”

  • Gene isn't your average example, but sharing his runs has made him a better runner.

  • With social media being at the forefront of everything, there's this social media feedback loop that sort of merges with the sport of running.

  • Everytime I did the run I would post it onto social media and my friends would just sort of freak out and say, “Whoa!

  • I didn't know that there was the Dire Wolf in Queens!”

  • And so because of that, I started to do more and more.

  • Did the lion in Minneapolis.

  • The octopus.

  • The bear in Jackson Heights.

  • C-3PO.

  • Darth Vader.

  • Storm Trooper.

  • TIE Fighter.

  • AT-AT Walker.

  • AT-ST Walker.

  • At some point, it started to go into ten-plus miles.

  • And for me that was sort of an achievement because at the time I was only doing five miles.

  • There is, however, a downside.

  • Using GPS to track our runs has raised privacy concerns.

  • When the popular fitness tracking app Strava released their global heatmap showing data collected from runners around the world,

  • they unknowingly revealed detailed military information from locations where users had been tracking their jogging routes.

  • While you might not be stationed on a secret military base, sharing information about your

  • run can make your daily routine and home address publicly available.

  • But it's a tradeoff.

  • The same technology that's driving people to share their progress and location, at the

  • cost of their privacy, it's also helping them stay active.

  • At least we are getting more people to run.

  • We're getting more people to run because of GPS and, on top of that, social media.

  • I think with all this tracking,

  • I think you just need to be able to turn it on and off.

Gene Lu uses GPS to map his runs on a phone.

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GPSで走るのが上手になる方法 (How GPS can make you better at running)

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    Boyeee に公開 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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