The Runner's World Personal Best Awards aim to recognise and reward the products and services that have helped make your running so enjoyable and enriching.This year, a carefully-selected expert panel will decide the winners in the following six

the contour of the foot won almost unanimous praise from our testers. This latest shoe continued the line's impressive track record – the previous model, the Gel Kayano 14, was voted the International Editors' Choice 2008 by the staff of Runner's World's 14

Untitled DocumentThe Runner's World Personal Best Awards aim to recognise and reward the products and services that have helped make your running so enjoyable and enriching.This year, to accommodate the Heroes of Running Awards, we had Awards

by reducing menstrual symptoms. These runners prefer taking the pill so they can control their cycle and don't have to race when they are having their period. Although it is safe to manipulate the timing of your period, experts generally agree this practice

information to be useful for runners who simply fancy giving heart-rate monitoring a go. It has a simple stopwatch – start, stop and no lap function – but you can keep a check on your current heart rate, your maximum and your average

As summer draws to a close – well, if you could call it summer – your early morning and late evening runs will start to get cooler, so you’ll need some in-between kit to see you through to hats-and-gloves weather. These long-sleeved tees are light enough to wear on your last summ...

, 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

completed her first ever race – a hilly, off-road 5K – and joined a local running club, we’d have to disagree. "I had no idea running was so popular," Karen admits, "I started exercising to lose weight and first visited the Runner’s World site for nutrition

is still the only running brand to make all its elite running shoes in the UK. In fact, across all product categories, 73 per cent of demand is supplied by British factories. To find out more, go to newbalance.co.uk.

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