Equipment matters: the best kit for trail running

Equipment matters: the best kit for trail running

Image: Shutterstock Trail running demands toughness and minimalism – Tristan Kennedy explains why it’s so cool On 22 March last year, decorated British trail runner Jasmin Paris achieved the crowning moment of her career – not surrounded by cheering crowds on The Mall, like a London Marathon winner, but by collapsing beneath a nondescript metal gate, covered in flaking yellow paint, on an anonymous dirt road in Tennessee’s Frozen Head State Park…