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This is an optional tool and many elite athletes have successfully trained and competed in races and broken world records without such technology. Having said that, they can be useful and add fun to your running. A GPS watch (many are often just known by their trade name) can also be a great motivational tool and if you are a bit of a statistics freak then there is nothing better than getting home from a long run and checking your kilometre-by-kilometre splits. A watch will show the distance you have run, your speed, gradients you have climbed, as well as averages and other statistics. Once uploaded you can view all this information in graphs. This is a useful tool, as many runners tend to exaggerate or have wishful thinking about the distances they run. A slight word of warning: some runners get almost addicted to the statistics on their watch and can’t even run a couple of metres without looking down at it. This will mean you can end up running as fast as you think you should be running, instead of listening to your body and adjusting your speed depending on how your body is responding to the workout that day.