If I was stranded on a desert island and could take one item with me, it would be a good sports bra. I'd have to run on the island and without having to go to work or any TV to watch, I'd probably do quite a bit of running. Though maybe it would get a [...]
It's often said that we only ever use around 10% of our brain at any one time, and that reassures me about my Garmin. The Forerunner 405 can do a lot of things that will make me faster: there's the 'virtual training partner', the structured workouts, the heart rate monitor - all of which I [...]
Autumn and winter running kit: what to wear There are several calendar-related rules in the fashion world such as 'you can't wear white trousers after the start of September' or 'you have to wear that dodgy jumper your Gran knitted you until after Boxing Day'. The clocks going back officially marks the start of the [...]
Running would be much harder to fit into my average working week without my running backpack, and marathon training would have been almost impossible. When the nights are longer and you don't want to have to wear a headlamp for your evening run, and your run is too long to realistically fit into a lunch [...]
It's recommended that you change your running shoes every 500 miles. I've pushed my luck through more than 600 miles and a marathon in my Brooks Adrenaline GTS 9s, so when I was in Seattle recently and saw the GTS 10s costing significantly less than they do in the UK, it was just the hint [...]
Not legging, not tights, not capri pants - but shorts. And the Nike Tempo running shorts in particular. Of course there are months in the year where fear of frostbite prohibits me from wearing these but, and this may surprise some of the international reader who think of England as cold and wet 95% of [...]
There are many clothing choices that we runners make that involve practicality over style - and the high visibility jacket is one of them. Let's face it, fluorescent yellow is never going to flatter anyone - but being runover is never a good look either.As we've passed the Summer Solstice and are heading back towards [...]
In drawing up my Top 10, I've given a lot of thought to how often I use an item and how inportant it is to my running when I use it. I don't use gels very often - the last time I had one was when I chomped one down on the starting line of [...]
Top running kit lists tend to feature pretty much the same stuff... until now. I don't think Runners' World or Men's Health have listed Elizabeth Arden 8 hour cream in their kit-bag essentials but Lazy Girl would like to put forward a case for its inclusion.If you're not familiar witht this product it has a similar [...]
To kick off the Lazy Girl Top Ten can't live without (well at least can't run without) pieces of kit is the humble cap. During the past few weeks of sunny weather I've become good friends with my new cap. It's much more practical than sunglasses for keeping the sun out of my eyes while [...]
