when running. The heart-rate strap adjusts easily and is perfectly comfortable, while the footpod clips easily to your laces with its presence undetectable once it’s on. In training the watch was easy to use. It stores 100 laps or up to seven hours

tracks your player can store depends on the file type used. Using an industry standard gauge of a four-minute track, an 8GB device would store: 4000 tracks in WMA  2000 tracks in MP3 2000 tracks in AAC  200 tracks in WAV

and distance monitor and heart-rate monitor, the Garmin 305 is possibly the ultimate running gadget available. The speed and distance features are fantastic – it can store your best times on a circuit so you can “virtually” race yourself next time; it lets you

stores for tired muscles, and research has also shown that drinking it one to two hours before training can also boost recovery. The whey protein in Recovermax combats cortisol, which can be produced during hard training and which can slow recovery

makes some pretty good watches. The D3 boasts distinctive, sci-fi looks and some very useable features. It can store up to 90 lap times and 45 different runs; you can recall your last lap time on the run without interrupting the stopwatch and there

.The RW Shoe Lab has once again been fired up and we thrashed these shoes to within an inch of their lives to see how they respond to the pounding you lot are likely to give them out on the road. Runner's World is the only publication in the world

Garmin are soon to release their new and sexiest-yet speed-and-distance-monitor in the UK. With just a handful of 405s in the country before its release date (end of April) RW was lucky enough to put one through its paces. Fans of the reliable 305

Spring is well and truly here, along with the kind of beautiful weather that just calls out for new running shoes. Our Spring/Summer 2012 Shoe Guide includes a bumper crop of 34 new shoes, as well as reviews and technical information on each.The RW

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

-and-distance monitor designed for those who prefer to run without their favourite tunes pounding in their ears. Can the Nike+ SportBand do for running purists what the original Nike+ kit did for the die-hard music fans? We put it through its paces to find out.How does