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 was going to happen sooner or later, it was just a question of where they would chart on the Top 10 Running Kit list. The criteria for the list has been a matter of how indispensible to running items are. I thought long and hard about it and there are only two items that I couldn't [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Looking out the window today it seems odd to be raving about how important to my running a bottle of sunscreen is. But there's not manu items that feature in my Top 10 that can protect your health quite like this one. So while I may only use it for a few months every year, [...]
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 [...]