🔗 When the Watch Makes the Call - Steve Magness

We’re all entering an era where we get to decide what level of automation we want for just about anything. Do we want the free flowing unmediated experience of just running and feeling it all. Do we want feedback, agency, or even at the extreme, the work done for us? It’s all possible now, unlike at any point in history.

Second only to note-taking apps, my phone is full of fitness trackers. Magness makes the important point that we have a choice to make about our own agency in fitness.

I’m deciding to not take this any further than using these analytical outputs for seeing the broad rhythms of my training. My main motivation for even doing these things is to be active and healthy. In part, this surely has to be staying aware of my perceived fitness and capacity for training. My watch can provide some perspective, but I won’t cede control to it.

(via The Morning Shakeout)