RunningAHEAD - Topic: oh no, not another ipod post . . .

posted: 6/27/2008 at 10:56 AM

Not to flog that dead horse, but after 2-1/2 years of running almost exclusively w/my music, all of a sudden i've started to leave the headphones at home and just run. No trigger. No epiphany. It wasn't the wise words of some hard-core runner-type telling me that only jokers use music to "mask the pain" of a good run. I just seem to enjoy it. I've even turned them off and put them in my pocket on a couple of long runs. Weird. Wonder if this means that someday I'm going to start running barefoot.

Mendeldave

ultramarathon/triathlete

posted: 6/27/2008 at 11:34 AM
modified: 6/27/2008 at 11:34 AM

Personally, I use music on half my runs. I just like listening to music, it motivates me. I've never thought it masked the pain, maybe I'm listening to the wrong music. I go through spurts. Sometimes, it's all nature, sometimes is all techno :-)

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mn_Peter

posted: 6/27/2008 at 11:35 AM

Dare to dream!! Big grin

Same thing happened to me. I ran with an Ipod Shuffle for about 18 months and thought running without it would be a chore. Then, my headphones went bad one day and it took about a month to get a replacement (since my running was a higher priority than getting new ear buds - of course). Well, once I finally got the replacements, I put them in and started to run, but in about a half mile, I pulled them out and haven't run with them since. It was just too much of a distraction. Couldn't hear the birds, my thoughts, the cars speeding by, etc.

easytarget

posted: 6/29/2008 at 4:03 PM

this topic never gets old because people never get tired of telling other people how to live their lives or in this case how to really be a leet runner Roll eyes

Wingz

Professional Noob

posted: 6/29/2008 at 4:11 PM

Quote from Save Cheevers on 6/27/2008 at 10:56 AM:

Weird. Wonder if this means that someday I'm going to start running barefoot.

*giggles*

Roads were made for journeys...

mrakers

posted: 6/29/2008 at 4:30 PM

I rarely run with music. And to make things weirder, when I run with headphones, it's because I'm either listening to talk radio, or a podcast.

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