Try these: Skiff racing|Bodycare|UK Triathlon|Nike|Magazine

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If extreme sailing hoists your gib, then plot a course for Hayling Island Sailing club on 1 and 2 September. The Hampshire club are hosting the inaugural Red Bull Tide Ride, the UK's first 'up close and personal' skiff-racing regatta. The fastest racing boats around, skiffs will compete in four classes over the slalom course, and tidal conditions mean the course will be located unusually close to shore, giving spectators a rare glimpse of this fast and furious sport. For further details, visit www.redbulltideride.com.

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If you want to add pleasure rather than pain to your workout programme, try the new Biobas Active range of bodycare products. Made from natural ingredients, treatments include anti-chlorine shampoo, muscle soak, foot balm and a solution to improve your grip playing racket sports. There's even warm-up balm and warm-down gel, at the suitably steamy price of £8 a pop. For stockists, call 020 7702 3239.

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There will be a large Welsh assembly on 9 September at Llanberis, in the north-west of the Principality, for the Half Ironman UK Triathlon – and you, too, could be competing.

Official entry lists are now closed, but Sportsactive has secured two tickets and two pairs of FosterGrant sunglasses for readers wishing to compete. Apply immediately bysending a postcard with name, address and contact number to: FosterGrant, Clarion Communications, 121-124 Westbourne Terrace, London W2 6JR.

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Nike's third-world production policies have not had the best PR of late, but the American giant has been responsible for some of the major innovations in sports clothing. Many of these are on show at the 'Nike – Design for Movement' exhibition, which runs until 30 September at London's Design Museum (www.design museum.org). Visitors can follow the evolution of Cathy Freeman's Olympic 2000 Swift Suit, as well as check out the 'golden shoes' of upright sprint legend Michael Johnson.

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Pretty niche stuff, this. 'The Edge' (£2.95), is the magazine 'for skiers and boarders with attitude'. The August issue features Vasco Trinidade, "rising star of Portuguese wake-boarding", a guide to freestyle jumping from the Stars of Florida team,the world's top boarding spots, and pages – and pages! – of the latest moves.