chances of injury.Rob Spedding, RW Staff Writer
We are never going to claim that running a marathon personal best is easy. Even if you've never run a marathon before, there's no guarantee you'll walk away with a new mark. You might have completed every training session; treated each ache as soon as it arose; and stuck to the p...
along the towpath, I'd unlock my mountain bike. Now, though, I've found one bike that lets me do both. My new commuting bike offers the perfect combination of slick-tyred speed with the rugged comfort of an off-roader. It strikes me that there's a type
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
introduced its Bodylink System, runners wanting to monitor their heart rate and measure their distance and speed at the same time would have had to buy two separate systems and then wear two watches. The Triathlon Performance Monitor now does it all. It can
Scrabbling around in the cupboard under the bathroom sink for something to treat a minor running injury is a common occurrence chez Spedding. Sadly, I’ve yet to find a muscle pull or joint twist that responds well to applications of Bonjela or six
, with beeps in between. And there’s also a pace calculator, which will indicate your average pace for the session once the distance of your run is entered. (A cheaper, more limited, 50-lap Triax Speed is also available, £84.99.)Pros Memory, biggest digits
fabric next to the skin speeds up heat loss. As with summer kit, synthetic fibres predominate, but you’ll also notice the re-emergence of a natural fibre in our selection of the best winter base layers.Wooly Warmth…You rarely see sheep shiver. That
.cardiosport.comCiclosport Hac 4 £154.99 Great cross-training tool as it’s also a bike computer that can provide readings such as speed, distance, temperature, gradients and altitude.Can store up to 64 hours of data, which can then be downloaded onto a PC. Graphical display
– is the first choice for many of us for our long Sunday run. But it isn't just a high-mileage workhorse. It's equally at home on the feet of new runners as it is on those of seasoned marathon campaigners.Contact 01925 241 041; www.asics.co.ukBest Speed Machine
