Whatever type of runner you are, you should give serious consideration to investing in a heart rate monitor. From as little as £40 you can add a whole new dimension to your training. Strap on a heart rate monitor and you’ll never run too quickly
-shirt to go with the shoes – which is highly recommended – then the costs start to add up. And you'll say that your bank statements prove the theory spectacularly misguided after you've bought your first watch, invested in a heart rate monitor or rewarded
functionEvaluation £180 is a lot of money for a stopwatch, and if that’s all you want, this isn’t the watch for you. What you’re actually paying for are the heart rate functions, but the monitor is also excellent and easy to use. To time a session, pull
.aldi-stores.co.ukComfortably Done… Polar M-Series Chest Strap – from £99 (with a monitor)It’s taken a few years, but heart rate monitors are now a standard piece of running equipment. There is, however, one feature of HRMs that still puts some people off – the chest strap
With so many heart-rate and speed-and-distance monitors on the market it’s easy to forget that you can still buy sports watches that don’t receive signals from space or warn you that you’re in imminent danger of cardiac arrest. And if you’re happy
