New Sports Watches For May June 2016 – The Contenders Polar, Garmin, TomTom, Fitbit

OK Fellow Sports Gadget Nerds it’s now or never. The next 4-6 weeks are the window…

parkrun – new stats on how great you are

Here are some stats from the nice people at parkrun. It seems that half a million…

Review: BSX Insight – Setting up, initial thoughts and first uses

The BSX Insight device measures muscle oxygenation through Near Infra-Red Spectroscopy and, amongst other things, has…

Weekend training for the Run Hackney Half Marathon

My official Half Marathon plan, in preparation for Run Hackney, for this weekend says: Saturday: 45 minutes easy Sunday:…

Tech bound to the North London Half Marathon with STRYD and BSX Insight

Sunday 20th March is Half Marathon tech day for me. My cunning plan is to test…

Fancy Running Here? For Free? With Salomon TV

Fancy running here for free? Enter this Salomon competition: https://runningtv.salomon.com/en/contest/win-your-dream-trip     the5krunnertfk is the founder…

Run Or Dye 5K – Cool images, worth a quick look, honest!

OK there are lots of novelty 5k that are marketed as ‘fun’ events. I’m sure there’s…

Anna Frost Video : Running In Papua New guinea

Running travelogue of Anna Frost’s trip to Papua New Guinea (below). Part of the Salomon Running…

North London Half 9am Wembley 20 March….SOON

I am genuinely looking forward to the North London Half Marathon. It’s nice to do races…

Polar A360 vs HRM-RUN – HR Running Accuracy This Time

Some much better news today for the A360. This time running tests. OK they were fairly…

Runners hurry up North London Half Marathon entries close 22 Feb Iconic Wembley Stadium finish 20Mar

Well I’m already booked but just got this notification through for imminent closing of entries for…

New Garmin Sling – parody

Latest news from Garmin is their release of the runner’s digi-sling. This hi-tec gadget minimises wind drag…

parkrun PB Tips for the weekend – Updated Feb 2016

The parkrun PB tips for the coming weekend has just been updated. There’s now 60 ways…

IN DEPTH: The Quest For Wet HRV – Swimming HRV Underwater – Finally

I started off a couple of years ago with the intention to record ‘every heartbeat’ that…