, 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

You have to pity race organisers. They go to great pains to have someone ride round their course measuring it with a Jones-Oerth counter, then 200 runners turn up wearing wrist-mounted GPS computers and claim the route is 300 metres too long. Speed

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relayed to the user either through headphones or over the speakerphone. The phone records heart rate, speed and distance (via a calibrated pedometer), cadence and calories burned. You can set up a workout plan and it will coach you through each run

recovering straight away. It'll start working just 10 minutes after application, and give you two hours of its blissful cooling effect. Good for: avoiding time on the bench Pledgetags, from £3.99 www.pledgetodoit.com Help the runner in your