NEWS... BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT

The athlete, 48, chats about anti-gravity rehab, her Kindle habits and why she’s not on Strava.

I’m on an iPhone 12 Pro. We went on a safari just before Christmas and the camera on it was amazing.

Because I spend so much time travelling, I love the dual SIM option as well.

I guess the social media ones and WhatsApp, Sonos, Ring and Blink. I also have one for the solar panels on the roof.

I use the Xplora app all the time because my son has the X5 Play watch. It allows him to have a bit more independence.

I join Strava for nine days of the year when I’m doing a charity run in Monaco called No Finish Line, which has gone virtual since the pandemic hit, but then I leave again.

All these people start following me and then I just go. I spent my whole career having everything tracked so I don’t even time my runs now.

I’ll have my AirPods when I’m at the gym but if I’m running outside I like to be in tune with everything that’s going on around me. I have an Apple Watch so I don’t have to run with my phone.

That’s a godsend because I know what time I need to be back and I’m still contactable for the kids if they need me. The only other tech I wear when I’m running is the Frontier X heart monitor, which also measures cardiac strain.

After all the years of pushing my heart to the limit, it means I get to make sure I haven’t damaged it in any way.

I also use it on my mum, who has atrial fibrillation, so her cardiologist can remotely see her ECGs while she’s exercising.

I used an AlterG treadmill, which was developed by Nasa to help astronauts maintain bone density in space, but then they reversed it so it reduces your bodyweight.

You’re running on a treadmill but you’re in a huge skirt that fills with air. Back in 1994 I had a massive foot injury that wasn’t picked up at the time.

Had the scans been as good as they are now, it would have been spotted immediately.

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I started running when I was nine so the most tech I had at that point was probably a Casio stopwatch.

For a long way through my career, most of the timekeeping wasn’t even electronic so that was something I saw develop.

I can remember going down to watch my dad in the London Marathon and, just using his time predictions, getting the Tube to different spots with my mum to try and see him.

You’ve got apps that track the runners now so you’ve got no excuse to miss someone.

EE is offering the Xplora X5 Play via ee.co.uk, EE telesales and EE retail stores, and it is available for £12 per month with a 24-month watch plan

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