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• Gears, tears and breathtaking ascents: how I cycled the Dolomites and Alps

  9 Sep 2014: With barely any training Peter Kimpton tried to tackle the Haute Route, the highest and toughest cyclosportive in the world. How did it go?

• Walking a mile a day can cut risk of dying from cancer by 40% – study

  29 Aug 2014: Exercise can reduce chance of dying from breast or prostate cancer and help with treatment side-effects, says Macmillan

• My teacher, Mr Iyengar: a former pupil remembers the yoga master

  22 Aug 2014: BKS Iyengar, who died this week in India, reinvented yoga. Silvia Prescott, former student and at 91 his close contemporary, celebrates a ‘genius’ of mind and body

• Why I love ... parkour

  14 Aug 2014: Reducing risk and avoiding fear makes society less capable; with parkour we can reclaim our natural agility and instincts. Dan Edwardes explains why he took the first leap
  

• Don’t get burned by sun cream ‘deals’

  12 Jul 2014: Guardian Money investigation exposes how retailers artificially inflate prices to make consumers think they’re getting a bargain

• Skyrunning: taking running to a whole new level

  2 Jul 2014: Emmie Collinge: If tackling a 10K isn't enough for you, how about doing it up a 2,000m hill, at gradients of up to 50%? And that's before you even think about the descent …

• Wild UK runs in spectacular scenery

  1 Jul 2014:

  From bare-footed gallops along the beach to challenging mountains and beautiful national parks, the authors of Wild Running, choose eight of their favourites

• Health spa holidays: energy and meditation in Switzerland

  21 Jun 2014:

  A tired and run-down Emily Mawson hopes to tap into natural powers at a wellness retreat in Switzerland

• Healthy holidays: savouring a raw juice camp in Portugal

  21 Jun 2014:

  Overweight and newly single, Jonathan Thompson pins his hopes on a different kind of drinking holiday
   

• Healthy holidays: Grayshott spa does a soft take on Teutonic health farms

  21 Jun 2014:

  Our writer submits to a strict seven-day regime of fasting, abdominal massage, and lectures on nutrition when she checks into a retreat in the peaceful Surrey countryside

• How to get the perfect beach body (with science)

  18 Jun 2014: Dean Burnett: There are countless guides and instructions for getting the 'perfect beach body', but what does science say about this?

• Fell running in the Lake District: six routes to try

  12 May 2014:

  The Lake District's fells offer some of the finest running trails in the UK. Jen and Sim Benson, authors of the new guide Wild Running, published this week, select six of their favourites

• Top 10 activity holidays in Europe

  8 May 2014:

  Enjoy the sights of Europe at a faster pace with Susan Greenwood's pick of sports and wellbeing breaks. Go mountain biking in Italy, train with professional triathletes in Morzine or learn Spanish as you hike the Camino de Santiago

• Sadiq Khan: I'm suffering from marathon addiction

  10 Apr 2014:

  I've got sore muscles and aching feet – but the London marathon has got me hooked

• Potholes to portable toilets: a marathon runner's guide to world cities

  10 Apr 2014: As Harmander Singh prepares to run his 30th London Marathon, he picks the worst roads, best toilets ... and most dangerous areas in the world's 26.2 mile events
  

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