This episode of RunPod is sponsored by M&S, where you can shop all your favourite sportswear brands.

Hello, welcome back to this very special mini episode of RunPod, where I am joined by Esther Newman, editor of Women's Running magazine, and Aaron Tomazoo, a shopping editor at British GQ, and we are here to help.

You might need ideas for gift for Christmas presents.

You might need ideas for presents for yourself.

Well, in this episode, we are talking all things, accessories, all the extras, the things that

turn your head when you're in a running shop or browsing through a magazine.

So, Esther, what kind of things do you think you're going to mention in this episode?

Right. Well, I've got lots of lovely stocking fillers, essentially. I've got some socks. I've got some headphones, a watch, which is possibly a little bit more than a

stocking filler, some insoles, a hydration pack and a hat. I've also got a bit of nutrition.

Okay, nice. All right. Well, I mean, I'm going to throw in some earphones, some gloves,

maybe some socks, and I might have a collagen supplement to talk about as well.

And I've also got some makeup, some makeup actually.

How about you, Aaron? What have you got?

So I also have some headphones and a running watch.

I have a phone holder and I'm also keeping it highbrow with a book recommendation.

Ooh, get you fancy.

All right, well, why don't we start with you, Esther?

Why don't you kick things off?

Oh, well, socks.

I think socks get a bad rap.

Everyone doesn't want to, you know, you sort of hear that no one wants a pair of socks again for Christmas, but runners always want socks. Okay, I think we need to make that quite clear. It's brilliant to open a pair of socks on Christmas Day. So I've got two fantastic socks here. One of them is monkey socks. I don't know if you've heard of those. This is a fantastic brand.

This was developed from, I think it's a couple who set up this sock brand. They are fantastic

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