Can You Lift Weights Properly Without Those Oversized Gym Mirrors? Tanner Garrity, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail I was in the middle of a track workout last winter — four one-mile repeats at half-marathon pace — when the running club’s coach asked everyone to take off their GPS watches. “No Strava, just for these last two,” he said. The idea was to rely on our pacing instincts. To focus on feel, instead of anxiously eyeing our wearables every time we rounded the final straight. This venture turned into a bit of a disaster on the penultimate mile; we ran considerably quicker than we were supposed to. But on the final mile, we adjusted accordingly, and crossed the finish line at the exact intended clip.