We recently reviewed the Under Armour EU Tee which is a great all round top, so were interested to see what these more specialist running tees would be like. The Under Armour Run Heatgear tops are available in a wide variety of colours, and bright ones at that, means you’ll be visible on the road whilst running. […]
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Socks are, as I always say when reviewing socks, something that I begrudge paying for. I might be happy enough shelling out hundreds of quid for the latest tech, but I’ll baulk at shelling out more than a few quid for socks. With my previous Karrimor socks were both wearing thin and disappearing, with only
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The Under Armour EU Tech T-Shirt is sold as your favourite T-shirt, but with a technical twist. Is this really a technical top that looks OK down ‘t pub? Picture your favorite T-shirt. Got it? Okay. Now let’s put it to the UA challenge. Your favorite against ours. But to be fair, ours isn’t an
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I’ve recently had the opportunity to review a pair of Salomon Speedcross 3 trail running shoes by Fitness Footwear, and while they’re still in the process of being tested, I’m impressed so far! While they feel like you’re running on soft studs on hard surfaces, once you get on trail and fell you appreciate that
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Are regular marathons getting too easy for you? Do you dream of combining your love of long distance walks and camping with competitive racing? If so then a mountain marathon might be just what you are looking for. What are Mountain Marathons? These events usually take place over two days, with the competitors’ skills in
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The Montane Marathon Jacket is designed to be the ultimate runner’s windproof jacket. It weighs almost nothing, OK – 130g, and packs down to a tiny size. It has just enough water resistance for showers. Once you’re running, it’s a snug jacket that doesn’t get in the way, you can just forget about it. Made of highly
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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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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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We’ve been lucky enough to get our hands on and our arms and legs eventually into some SUB Cold base-layers We tested the compression fit Mock Neck top and a pair of SUB COLD compression shorts during the recent cold snap. Top Long Sleeve This looks like some sort of action man top when you first take
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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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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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We’ve all in probability tried something made by Lucozade over the years. Probably one of those glass bottles with orange cellophane that seemed to be a permanent fixture next to any sickbed in the country. These days, the brand association is more with fitness than the convalescing. The Lucozade Body Fuel is similar in flavour to their
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SiS GO Isotonic Gel is designed to be taken without water, to provide an energy boost during any intensive activity. They’re available in three flavours; Orange, Tropical and Blackcurrant.. The Orange variety tastes just like orange jelly, which for me is good, but it isn’t an overpowering taste. While many other gels I’ve tried are
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The Maxifuel ViperActive energy gel is designed to keep you energised on those long runs or cycles. It’s available in only two flavours, Lemon and Lime and Mixed Berry. The mixed berry flavour doesn’t taste as expected! It has a tart, youghurty flavour which unpleasant at first, only as it was unexpected. The tartness is rather refreshing,
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The PowerBar Sports Gel provides energy for those longer runs or cycles, and is available in five flavours; Blackcurrant, Apple, Lemon Lime, Tropical Fruit and Vanilla I tried the Lemon and Lime flavour, and it really was a shock to the palate! It was extremely citrusy, as expected, but after the initial shock I realised
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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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Gu are better known for their puddings than sports nutrition (at least to me they are), and what I do know is that their puddings are some of the best pre-packaged sweets known to man. With such a tasty pedigree, I had high expectations as well as plentiful drool even before trying them out. Apparently,
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Beans that improve your running? This sounds like something a lad called Jack would swap his cow for on the way to market. However, you don’t need to own a cow, or revert to the barter system in order to get your hands on the Jelly Belly Sports beans, though you will need to shell
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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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Fancy winning a free trip for two people to the legendary The North Face® Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc®. The catch? You’ll need an iPhone and get ready to get some running done as this is no game of chance. Polartec® has teamed up with The North Face® to invite runners to take part in an exciting new
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The Columbia Master of Faster are a hybrid trail running and walking shoe. Designed equally for those fast walking trips where running sections might well be on the cards, trail running or just as an approach shoe. With a Columbia Outdry waterproof liner and a nubuck and mesh upper, they’re sturdy enough for most off-path
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I don’t usually bother writing about individual runs, especially when they’re on your bread and butter routes. Tonight’s route was just one of those, but a run that’ll mark itself as one of my most important runs this year. It reminded me that running anything less than 8km is just not fun. I need that sort of
How light can a pair of trews get? Not much lighter than the Montante Featherlite pants that’s for sure. Suitable for those fast and light summer trips, running in less favourable conditions or as an emergency layer in your waist pack on a trail or fell run. As new, the Durable Water Repellancy treatment means that water
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