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How fitness tracking can destroy the meditative quality of outdoor exercise

I started trail running to clear my head but now I just think about my pace and my heart rate the whole time.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The quantification of experience eliminates the qualitative benefits that motivated the activity.

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