Think you’ve got a marathon in you? I can’t help you break a two-hour record, but I can help kit you out with everything you need to run your first race — here are 10 essential bits of running kit recommended by me, a fitness editor

Here are 10 road running essentials to get started, including affordable ‘pocket rocket’ running watches.

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Spotify is expanding into fitness in partnership with Peloton — its new Fitness hub is available today, and is designed to help you ‘build momentum’ and ‘improve your wellbeing’

Spotify and Peloton are partnering to bring over 1,400 video workouts to Spotify’s new Fitness hub.

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The Garmin Vivoactive 5 offers a ‘perfect balance’ of health and fitness tracking — now over 25% off at Amazon

The Garmin Vivoactive 5 just hit its lowest price since Black Friday at Amazon.

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I’ve worn the Garmin Tactix 8 for 8 weeks, and elite adventurers will love this watch — but most of you probably don’t need it

The Garmin Tactix 8 is the ultimate one-watch solution for tactical operators. With an unbelievable battery life and dedicated tactical features, there’s nothing better on the market at the moment.
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The Huawei Watch GT Runner 2 is a terrific specialist running tool, fast and accurate — but it’s hobbled by Huawei’s usual side-loading ecosystem problems

The Huawei Watch GT Runner 2 is accurate even compared to watches that cost around triple its price.

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Forget your Apple Watch: ‘self-powering’, health-sensing fabrics that draw energy from our bodies are being worked on as the next evolution of wearables

New ’smart textiles’ could become the future of wearables for exercise and clinical health monitoring.

The Fitbit Charge 6 is ‘the most advanced band-style fitness tracker you can buy’ — and now it’s 25% off at Amazon

The Fitbit Charge 6 is our choice for the best premium fitness tracker, and Amazon has a limited-time 25% discount, bringing the price down to $119.95.
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‘I won’t settle for an AMOLED’: New poll suggests Garmin users want MIP screens to stay, as 34% say they’d switch brands if MIP died out

A poll on Reddit suggests many Garmin users prefer MIP displays to AMOLED equivalents.

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I tried the app Whoop just sued — and it’d be a real shame if it lost the battle

I tried both Whoop and Bevel to see if they really are strikingly, infringingly similar.

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One of Garmin’s best running watches crashes to its lowest-ever price on Amazon

Amazon slashes the price of the Garmin Forerunner 265. Now down to £314.49

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