What do you listen to when you run?

And why? Does music get you in the zone? Maybe a nice podcast about running is your thing? And check out the updates from the Run Club Culture event.

Big Q: What do you listen to when you run? And why?

I don’t listen to anything at all. When I started running again in my early 20s, I was working as a music journalist. If I was awake, I was listening to music. I was either at a concert (4+ shows per week!), or I was listening to an album over and over again in order to review it. I also listened to music for fun. I still do that, or maybe I do that again. I did get rather sick of having to listen to music, rather than getting to listen to music, to draw a parallel with that cliche about running.

Anyway. That time I spent running was my time away from music. I always called it my quiet time; my meditation time. I was still thinking about music, of course - I am an obsessive when it comes to things like that/this - but finding that stillness of mind was something that I identified very early on in my running life, and it’s a big reason why I run now.

I get time away from the hubbub to think about how to fit my various projects into my sc…