Mile Markers: The Best Kit for the London Marathon in 2026

Whether you’re chasing a PB, running your first, or just determined to finish before the pubs close, what you wear and carry on race day matters more than most people admit until they’re hobbling to the finish with a blister the size of a 50p coin. I’ve pulled together twelve of the best bits of kit for the London Marathon this year. Some of it I’ve run in. All of it, I’d trust.

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Level Up Your Kitchen: The Best Cooking Gadgets Worth Every Penny

Kitchen gadgets get a bad rap as clutter-generating impulse purchases; and plenty of them deserve it. But the ones on this list earn their worktop space every single day. Whether you’re a confident home cook wanting to push further, or someone who just wants dinner to be better and easier, these are the upgrades that actually deliver.

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POCO X8 Pro Series Is Here and It’s Coming For Everyone Above Its Price Point

Landing in London today, 17 March 2026, the POCO X8 Pro Max and POCO X8 Pro are the brand’s biggest swing to date. POCO has binned the old X Series name entirely and reborn it as the X Pro Series, and if that sounds like marketing fluff, the hardware underneath is anything but. This is the launch where POCO starts being the answer to a question nobody expected to ask: do you actually need to spend flagship money anymore?

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Brooks Has Finally Joined the Trail Super-Shoe Wars; and It Brought a Carbon Plate, PEBA Foam and Kevlar to the Fight

Meet the Cascadia Elite. Carbon-infused plate. PEBA foam midsole. Vibram Megagrip outsole. Kevlar upper. It is, without question, the most aggressive, most uncompromising, most unapologetically fast trail shoe Brooks has ever strapped to a human foot. And if you’ve spent the last few years assuming Brooks was happy to sit out the super-shoe revolution while the cool kids had all the fun; well.

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