Why can’t a grown man buy Vaseline without someone sniggering? A little pot of Vaseline can be used for many things while you’re out and about, so here are a few ideas. 1 – Chafing – Whether you’re running or walking, a bit of lubrication never goes amiss. If you don’t know what jogger’s nipple […]
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So everything’s packed and planned for the wild camp, except you want something sweet to go with your supper. While my first choice would always be the Travellunch Chocolate mousse, it can work out a bit expensive if you’re out for a long trip or every other weekend. Here’s a selection of puddings that are
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Main meals are easy enough to organise. You can choose to shell out for some Mountain House of Fuizion dehydrated meals or bargain hunt at the supermarket. Lunches on multiday trips can be problematic, so here are a few ideas that have kept our bellies from rumbling on those long trips. They’re inexpensive and have
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Like traffic wardens and taxes, treadmill training is just one of those necessary evils we all have to put up with at some point in our lives. While pounding away on the mill like a giant hamster can be boring and uninspiring, it doesn’t have to be that way. Here are five top tips to make treadmill
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The UK is blessed with so many Long Distance Footpaths that covering them all in one place would be a mammoth task! To make your life easier, we have picked five of the best UK Costal Paths from the long list of LDP walks that follow the coast. 1. South West Coast Path 1,014 km /
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Now that the New Year is well and truly underway, it’s time to dust of those running shoes and clamber out of your holiday cocoon. What better way to do this than with a mud race! If one of your resolutions this year is to get fit and healthy, signing up for one of these
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You’ve got your shiny new turbo trainer set up, or you want to get cracking on the exercise bike, but five minutes in and you’re bored. Here are a few ideas that might make it all a bit more tolerable and make motivating yourself a bit easier. 1 – Get a Heart Rate Monitor – as
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You may be fed up of paying petrol prices, or motivated by more altruistic reasons to try walking without the car. Doing so can be cheaper and opens up linear routes that those planning their trip by car alone will miss out on. You can always drive to one end of the walk and use
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If you do a lot of wild camping, then while specialist dehydrated meals might be convenient and light, it can work out extremely expensive. I tend to buy them for my main backpacking trips when I may need to carry five days’ food, but look our for some cheaper alternatives when I’m only out for
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What are the essential bits of grub that you ought to have in your cupboard, handy to grab for the next overnighter? The main meals are easy in comparison. 1 – Dried milk – hardly fashionable anymore, but useful anywhere that you usually need milk – obviously. 2 – Noodles – quality egg noodles are
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So you want a simple camping breakfast, but really can’t be bothered to cook or pay extortionate prices for dehydrated camping food. Here’s a selection of five tried and tested breakfasts that have served us well over the years. 1 – Oat So Simple (187 Calories) Just add hot water. It can be a bit gloopy
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With the lower quality rags warning of a Siberian Winter, as they invariably do every winter, year in and year out, you’ll need to get properly kitted out for some winter running. Not because of their usually incorrect forecasting, but due to the solid science that the months of January and February are usually quite
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The number of different energy gels for runners out there is bewildering, so we put a number of them through their paces in our Running Gels Rundown, along with the energy ‘jelly beans’ and a much cheaper alternative! We won’t go into the rights and wrongs of using gels here, that’s a whole argument in
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Here’s a few of the best Starting Out and Skills and Tips tutorial articles we’ve published over the last year or so. 1 – Wild Camping It may not have been a good year to start wild camping, but if anyone was inclined to do so then our Wild Camping tutorials would certainly have put them in the right direction.
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As we’ve now added a Skills and Tips section to the site, here are a selection of our best Gear Care articles from the 50 or so articles published so far. We’ve even managed to stick to the five things as mentioned in the title, sorry! 1 – Check your boots – There are a
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Ok, our points in this article about whether to share a tent or not is rather negative, so to redress the balance we’ve put together even more points of why it’s good to share! 1a – Are you a couple? In which case, the over-riding answer will be a yes. Though if you intend on getting up
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While we’ve touched on the philosophy of wild camping, to give it a grand term, and just about everything wild camping in previous posts. There’s still the overriding question for the majority of wild campers of whether to share or not to share. Here are a few thoughts from the Mud and Routes crew: 1 – Smell.
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We all get them, and while we may blame the humidity or our legs still being sore from the long run at the weekend, we still know we had a poor run. But it’s not all doom and gloom, so here’s a few points to ponder after one of those lead legged runs that may
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There are so many English Long Distance Footpaths that we can barely scratch the surface. Here’s a selection of the wilder or more challenging routes, or as in the Pennine Bridleway – something altogether unique! A single brief article like this isn’t going to cover the lot – if you feel strongly about your own local path, then get
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If the thought of summer nights spent out high on the summits is something you’re looking forward to then why not kip near a trig with a bivvy? Here are five of the best bivvy bags for under a ton. 1 – Alpkit Hunka – £30 and 420g. Available only online, this has to be the cheapest
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While there are many Scottish Great Trails, these are the four original Scottish long distance routes (LDRs), similar to the England and Wales National Trails, plus the daddy of them all – the unofficial Cape Wrath Trail. I’ll admit that I can’t be overly objective with these trails, as I think it’s a shame to travel
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Wales has it’s fair share of decent long distance footpaths, so here’s a selection of them. 1 – Cambrian Way 440Km The daddy of the Welsh routes, but scuppered along with the Cambrian National Park in the interests of the landowners. Passing over terrain that is as diverse as the Beacons, Pumlumon and practically all of
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Here are a selection of the best routes in no particular order that I’ve taken from guidebooks that are largely out of print. The criteria for the routes are the ability to inspire and describe the route in question, to make me want to explore. So the routes chosen had to have some element of
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We all know the merits of the tent, stove, sleeping bag and all the big kit, but there’s that unappreciated group of kit that’s universally ignored. These are those little bits of kit that we maybe take for granted or don’t even realise can be useful. Here’s, for once, our five undervalued and ignored bits
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