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.

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.