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What happens when the Men’s Health fitness director is tasked with road-testing two bikes? He does a double triathlon –and ends up going from review to revelation

I’ve been thinking about this climb for months. If I can just get up it, I’ll feel I’ve broken the back of this brutal bike leg. But talking of broken backs, mine is straining. Like fudge doughnuts, s

In his paean to the sport, Feet in the Clouds, Richard Askwith explains pithily: “You run up the fell; you run down again.” Simple it may be; easy it is not. Unlike trail running, which generally stic

Fitness racing is all the rage right now, but nothing offers quite the challenge posed by a backyard ultra, which tests both body and spirit in equal measure

What’s the best excuse you have ever made for performing badly in a race? I’m not talking about those deliberately vague ones we all trot out at short notice when we’ve had a shocker like “I’ve had a

From marathons to Hyrox , workout regulars are training like elites to find purpose, community and proof of what their bodies can do. Is this the ultimate antidote to life in 2025?