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Boots or Trainers ? To GPS or not ? How do those runners get all the required gear into a bum-bag ?

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Isle of Man map 5 Carole Elizabeth Engel 3812 Sun 17th May 2009, 7:55
Nike Pegasus GTX 0 Rob Richardson 3578 Tue 24th Mar 2009, 20:06
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Kit checks 13 Garfield Southall 4648 Sun 15th Feb 2009, 11:52
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Daysack 0 Peter Haslam 3076 Mon 18th Aug 2008, 19:22
Stoves. 5 Matthew Hand 3419 Thu 14th Aug 2008, 19:36
Water purification systems 3 Matthew Hand 2992 Thu 14th Aug 2008, 11:04
Platypus drinking tubes 12 Geoff Deighton 3604 Wed 23rd Jul 2008, 21:55
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The ultimate weather protector 13 Merrian Lancaster 3412 Fri 20th Jun 2008, 22:15
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Personal locator beacons 6 Tony Willey 2905 Sun 18th May 2008, 21:45
Helpful shop 0 Matthew Hand 2647 Sun 11th May 2008, 20:37
PARTY FEET 4 Mike Wiltshire 3397 Tue 29th Jan 2008, 19:45
What Tent? 2 Matthew Hand 3872 Mon 14th Jan 2008, 8:39
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Gear 3 Roy Turner 2969 Fri 5th Oct 2007, 22:55
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smelly boots 5 Merrian Lancaster 3005 Thu 6th Sep 2007, 13:03
Innov8 Roclite 315 9 John King 4913 Fri 17th Aug 2007, 20:52
Ankle Rub? 15 Paul Burgess 8042 Thu 16th Aug 2007, 22:06
100% waterproof 7   3516 Fri 10th Aug 2007, 3:04
Help please 7   3272 Thu 2nd Aug 2007, 21:50
GPS going crazy in the Alps 4 Nic Arb 2765 Mon 30th Jul 2007, 9:20
Topo Maping 5 John King 2798 Mon 23rd Jul 2007, 20:30
Hydration Sac 1 John King 2873 Sat 30th Jun 2007, 10:17
GPS vs Course measuring 20 Rebecca Lawrence 3152 Fri 29th Jun 2007, 1:49
Garmin wrist GPS 29   6048 Tue 22nd May 2007, 9:48
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Bum bags 14 Elton Ellis 6279 Mon 26th Mar 2007, 13:09
Petzl e+lite 2 Nick Andrews-Faulkner 2934 Wed 28th Feb 2007, 15:40
Discounted gear 0 Elton Ellis 2767 Tue 6th Feb 2007, 17:44
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Walk on Web Project – Volunteers needed 0 Paul Lawrence 2530 Mon 13th Nov 2006, 17:16
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running shoes waterproof or not? 9 Ian Koszalinski 5716 Tue 12th Sep 2006, 21:20
Pongy trainers 6 Julie Welch 2726 Mon 11th Sep 2006, 10:56
Bridge Water Canal 0   2634 Sat 26th Aug 2006, 20:37
Shoes going cheap... 0 Julie Welch 2847 Wed 23rd Aug 2006, 16:22
Cheap computer hardwear 0 Steve Clark 2661 Mon 31st Jul 2006, 17:37
GPS accuracy 5   2850 Wed 19th Jul 2006, 9:17
Walking Poles 7   3867 Wed 28th Jun 2006, 20:49
New Balance wear trials 3 Tony Willey 3296 Tue 20th Jun 2006, 20:16
GPS height gain data 7 Tony Willey 3061 Sun 21st May 2006, 18:28

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