How was your weekend running?

What unexpectedly useful items do you have on standby for your runs? Most running ‘gadgets’ or accessories are redundant, but just a few turn out to be genuinely useful. Share your own tips - and your weekend’s exploits - below the line as always

Well I have little to report of my weekend running. Supposed to do 23 miles yesterday, didn’t happen, managed 8 instead. 23 still looming. So that’s quite enough of that. Instead, I thought today I would take up a subject I’ve been discussing a lot on Twitter recently. No, not the ethics of allowing people who’ve served drug bans running in competitions, but unexpectedly useful running kit.

I have, thanks to the day job, been sent a fair amount of random running kit over the years. By kit I don’t actually mean clothes - but the sort of extra stuff that none of us probably really need, day to day, but which may just turn out to be really rather useful anyway. Most of it doesn’t, mind, and much of it is just downright pointless.

Continue reading...











from Fitness | The Guardian http://ift.tt/1Nvnsj5
via FITNESS