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The dad who runs before sunrise and wears a phone torch on an armband
The Actik Core at 600 lumens with the rechargeable Core battery, which can be swapped for AAA cells when it runs flat away from power.
Rechargeable with a AAA fallback is the right design: no hunting for batteries at home, and no dead torch on the third night of a trip. Petzl is the name climbers trust, which is a higher bar than the running market sets.
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The dad who runs a few times a week and whose running gear has been exiled to its own basket on the back step
The dad training for a half marathon who still runs in cotton socks he got free in a race pack
The dad whose weekday runs quietly stopped in April when it started getting dark before he got home
The dad stepping up from 10km to half marathon distance who currently runs holding his phone in one hand
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