RunningAHEAD - Topic: Earphone Ban

runpd

Eye Lick Two Rhune

posted: 4/5/2007 at 10:46 AM

I just read the Star Tribune and read that Grandma's in Duluth and the Twin Cities Marathons are baning ear phones on the course. Here is the link http://www.startribune.com/503/story/1100668.html I thought since most of us train with them that we might not get to race with them.

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trishierunner

esq.

posted: 4/5/2007 at 8:45 PM

I thought since most of us train with them that we might not get to race with them.

I always train with music, but almost never race with it .. especially in a marathon, where the people and the spectators and the scenery is part of the experience, IMO.

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Bear_Poop

posted: 4/5/2007 at 9:39 PM

At the Indy HM there is a band playing loud about every 2 blocks so you would not hear your music anyway

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Trent

Good Bad & The Monkey

posted: 4/5/2007 at 9:43 PM

Most marathons ban them. Most threat draconian measures if your are caught wearing them. Much of this is due to legal reasons. This marathon does not, but that's not the point here. Most of the time if you wear your headphones during a marathon, nobody will notice or care. That all said, why wear headphones? A marathon is a unique and beautiful experience. Talk to the people around you. They are far more likely to get you to mile 20 or up that next hill than a rocking song. Don't isolate yourself. Open up. Share the experience. Leave the headphones and the iPod at home.

I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.

Poor baby

runpd

Eye Lick Two Rhune

posted: 4/6/2007 at 12:35 PM

I personally have never worn ear phones either, but I figured that some runners on here are running Grandma's and maybe the Twin Cities Marathons and should be made aware of the ban before hand. I do trian with earphones but not very loud so I can here cars coming up behind me. Most of my miles are on gravel roads so I totally see the safety conconers from the race organizers. brad

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Trent

Good Bad & The Monkey

posted: 4/6/2007 at 12:49 PM

By the way, I am running Grandmas and there is a RunningAhead group for the Grandmas marathon. I know a bunch of folks running it and we are planning dinner the day before...

I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.

Poor baby

muse_runner

keep running.

posted: 4/6/2007 at 2:21 PM

I'm a headphone fiend. Without music, life is dull and uninteresting. Ah, but.... a lovely landscape on which to superimpose the latest techno and trance now we're talkin' where my pom poms?

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mikeymike

posted: 4/6/2007 at 2:36 PM

Quote from muse_runner on 4/6/2007 at 2:21 PM:

I'm a headphone fiend. Without music, life is dull and uninteresting. Ah, but.... a lovely landscape on which to superimpose the latest techno and trance now we're talkin' where my pom poms?

Don't even get me started on all the gadgetry you race with. Between the iPod, HRM and Garmin its a wonder you can remember to put one foot in front of the other. Feel the race, grasshopper. Wink

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Abs of Flabs

posted: 4/6/2007 at 2:54 PM

Quote from muse_runner on 4/6/2007 at 2:21 PM:

Ah, but.... a lovely landscape on which to superimpose the latest techno and trance

Techno and trance? Now we're talkin'. We should compare music lists. Where are your pom poms?!

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posted: 4/6/2007 at 3:06 PM
modified: 4/6/2007 at 3:06 PM

Quote from muse_runner on 4/6/2007 at 2:21 PM:

a lovely landscape on which to superimpose the latest techno and trance now we're talkin'

Muse, here's a question. Do you run to techno/trance b/c that's what you listen to in general, or do you find that it helps you get into a running zone more than a batch of "familiar" hit favorites? And where the hell are those damn pom poms?

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voiceofgrog

posted: 4/6/2007 at 3:15 PM

I just realized... I have WAY to much free-time at work right now... Big grin

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