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with a podiatrist - you might benefit from custom-built orthotics. If, though, you feel that your trainers could do with a little extra padding, or that a touch more stability will clear up your little niggle, here are eight we’ve tried and tested

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With so many heart-rate and speed-and-distance monitors on the market it’s easy to forget that you can still buy sports watches that don’t receive signals from space or warn you that you’re in imminent danger of cardiac arrest. And if you’re happy to run unencumbered by chest str...

. But once you reset the chronograph, it’ll only hold the work-out until you start another. Pros Tested quality; large digitsCons Fiddly crown operation; lack of multi- session memoryTimex Ironman 100 HRM £100Key features 100-lap, single-session memory

£99.99 Can be set up so that two users can share the unit. OwnZone sets different HR limits for three different levels of activity.Allows you to carry out a fitness test.Displays how many calories you’ve burned and how much fat you’ve used for energy

to an average of 83 and a maximum of 111 - the two-for-one sausages offer was pretty exciting. "I'm amazed by your shopping heart rates," says Dunbar. "I'd expect them to be higher, you must enjoy it more than most people."—Rob SpeddingAs well as keeping you

do find that I’m gasping for breath, even though I did a VO2max test and was told that my results were excellent! I’m sure that I’ll be able to finish the marathon, as I know on the day the crowds will get me round. The thing that worries me most

.runnersworld.co.uk forum about something called base training' and thought I'd give it a go."Building an endurance base by slowly adding mileage to steady runs is a tried and tested technique, but base training using a heart-rate monitor (HRM) is an idea conceived