Set aside a running wardrobe Or, if you're squeezed for space, a drawer or shelf. Use it strictly for your running kit. Organise it however you like. The point is, every run or trip to the gym won't turn into a house-wide scavenger hunt as you

Finding the best running watch is a little like trying to decide on the best running shoe: it depends on who you are and what you want from it. If you never race, never do speedwork and prefer to run by feel rather than time or distance, then it

to at least 10mph (even if you’re not a fast runner, you’ll need this for sprint intervals), and a decent warranty length.Home models have certainly come on since the last time RW looked at them, two years ago. For a reasonable outlay of £1,000- £2

The Nike+ receiver fits into the bottom of a standard iPod NanoNike – along with Apple - have just put on a sprint in the race to make the sexiest running gadget yet. The ‘Nike+’ kit turns Apple’s sleek iPod Nano MP3 player into a speed and distance

-friendly price tag and for someone venturing into the world of running watches for the first time, it certainly seems to tick all the right boxes.Tell us what you think of the Nike+ SportBand by submitting a review in our Gear section.

If you want to know exactly how far, and fast, you've run, then a speed-and-distance monitoring (SDM) watch is an essential piece of kit. Timex, Garmin and Navman produce SDMs that use satellites to trace your steps. They're pretty good, but if you

When Runner's World readers were asked to list their essential kit last year, heart-rate monitors came out on top. Unfortunately for the female runner, using a heart-rate monitor is usually an uncomfortable experience, requiring 10 minutes before

, but probably more information than the average runner would need. The T4 looks and feels different, and is a more running-focused product. Once you’re used to the logic of a Suunto model, the display and operation is easy to use. Another HRM/SDM combination

, load it with tunes and run.The best players for runners are those that use Flash memory, as these have no moving parts so songs won't skip. The days when Flash players only had room for an album's worth of music are long gone, and players are available

the full spectrum of runners, from college-level athletes, to philosophers who run in their spare time, to the philosopher who only started running to test the ideas in this book. Good for: food for thought on a long run