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跑步，尽在“掌”控 　　身穿运动服，脚蹬运动鞋，这样就上路跑步？你忘了一件重要的装备―手机。没有手机或其他运动追踪设备，你如何知道自己跑了多远，跑得多快，消耗了多少卡路里？新技术为跑步这项传统的运动注入了活力，吸引越来越多的人成为奔跑一族。 　　This summer， I went on one of the most visually stunning runs of my life. My path took me to the top of a 16th-century fort1） in Siena， Italy， as the rising sun lit the surrounding rooftops a brilliant yellow. But as much as I enjoyed the experience， I couldn’t shake the feeling that it somehow didn’t count， that it was less legitimate than my usual runs. 　　The reason： I wasn’t connected to wi-fi， which meant I couldn’t track myself with my Runkeeper app the way I usually did. Without it， I had no way of knowing if I was running as fast or as long as my marathon training plan dictated. I also worried that the friends who followed me on Runkeeper would see that I hadn’t logged anything all week and assume I’d been slacking2）―both silly things to worry about while enjoying such beautiful scenery， I know. But I also know I’m not the only one who has these anxieties. 　　Anybody who’s noticed the surge of sweaty Sunday-morning photos on their Facebook feed can likely vouch for3） the fact that marathons have recently exploded in popularity. To put it in perspective， during the first “running boom” in the 1970s， around 25，000 people in the U.S. ran marathons each year. Nearly twice that number ran in the New York City Marathon on November 1， 2015―and that’s just one of 1，200-plus marathons that now take place in the country annually. According to Running USA， an organization that tracks the sport’s growth， a record 550，637 people finished the 26.2 mile distance in 2014. 　　Running USA has also found that 52 percent of runners today track themselves with some sort of GPS-enabled device， like a smartphone， a fitness tracker， or a specially designed running watch. This statistic has likely played a role in running’s growing appeal―the influx4） of easily available tracking information has lured people to the sport， and kept them going， by making it