?"Your best answersBe very careful, the EVA cushioning is very sensitive to heat and will harden and/or shrink. I used to get it all the time in the shoe shop I worked in, and it was never a manufaturing fault. – Andrew_BThe most I ever do is use an old

forefoot striker. I find the most important thing to look for when I buy trainers is the level of forefoot cushioning in the shoe. I like the feeling of leaning forwards whilst running – it feels more natural to me to fall into the next stride. It has pros

of exercises you can do at home without any special equipment, and a lot more that you can do if you invest in a gym ball and some dumb-bells. But the best form of running-specific core training is probably to put on a pair of fell-shoes and gallop up and down