are as fanatical about your running as you are, you won’t be able to find anyone willing to provide you with liquid at convenient points on your long training runs. Instead, you’ll have to bottle and carry your drinks yourself. Here are three useful beverage

As we wave goodbye to summer, now is the time to invest in your most important piece of gear: new running shoes. Our Autumn/Winter 2011 Shoe Guide includes a bumper crop of 24 new shoes, as well as reviews and technical information on each

The smartest HRM on test in both senses (for an extra £15 you can have a metal strap), the USP of the T3 is the 'real-time‚' Training Effect, which shows how hard you are working during a run. In addition to the heart-rate zone, there are three zones for post

’s still packed with all the features that made the 305 great: it monitors your time spent running, distance, pace, calories and heart rate, and your runs can be stored in the memory, so you can review and analyse the data and the routes you’ve taken later

running community for some time – and all those hardy upland sheep can’t be wrong, either.Word of wool is now spreading into the mainstream. While wool-based products still represent only a small segment of a sports sock market dominated by manmade fibres

Now that your unused bottles of sun cream have been packed away for another year, it’s time to start kitting yourself out for the winter running season. As with other types of kit, jackets have become increasingly high tech in recent years

to stay at home to look after your little angel while you train. For many new parents, the prospect of running more than two or three times a week – let alone doing long Sunday runs – is as unlikely as a week of good sleep.A running-orientated baby

Until very recently, I used two different bikes for my daily commute to work. If I wanted to make the 30-mile round trip in double-quick time, I'd leap onto my Tour de France style road bike. But if I had time to spare and fancied a leisurely ride

It’s not so long ago that speed and distance judgement was regarded as a skill acquired by those prepared to invest years in their running. For a substantial investment of a different kind you can now literally have this expertise on your wrist

, running apparel hit the shelves of a leading supermarket, as well as an effective injury treatment sourced from a flightless bird. Here, then, is a purely subjective list of our favourite running products of 2003.Shoe Of The Year… Reebok Premier Road – £55