Running Sucks

Running Sucks

The Weakly

When music hits you, you feel no pain

Some running luminaries' favorite albums from 2024, and some thoughts on the benefits of listening to music and podcasts while running.

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Raziq Rauf
Dec 31, 2024
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I love music, but I don’t listen to music while I run. I’m in the minority there. At least 75% of runners run with music or podcasts flowing into their ears, but in my former life as a music journalist, my runs were the only hour of the day that I wasn’t listening to music.

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