Stop Listening To Music While You Run! (Try Audio-Books Instead)

I'VE RUN MORE THAN 30 MARATHONS OVER THE PAST 20 YEARS, but I recently found one hack that has made my last two training cycles the most fun I've ever had logging a ton of kilometres: audiobooks.

- Jeff Dengate, Runner’s World

Let me jump back a few decades, though. Like many of you, I got my start in running in school track event and cross-country teams. Back then, the iconic yellow Sony Walkman Sport was the coolest tech you could carry around. I never ran with one; partly because it was an anchor, but also because the flopping wire was so annoying. (Yes, I know in the past I've instructed readers to run the wire up inside their shirt. Still annoying.)

Later came the Sony Discman, but nobody ran with it because your music would skip constantly, at the slightest bump. Then the iPod: revolutionary, but that pesky wire was still present.

My runs remained silent.