I have been running since I was a teenager and have never liked listening to music while I run. Recently I started thinking about why I prefer to run in silence and I think it is because it is the one time during the day when I get to be alone and think. My head is clear and it's just me and the pavement. Besides, I would miss so many things if I was distracted by an iPod.
Example 1: I was running by the local karate studio last week when I observed a guy with no shirt on instructing a younger guy on how to properly do a push up. While he was doing the demonstration he had a lit cigarette in his mouth. hmmmmm...let me show you how to get stronger while I fill my body with cancer.
Example 2: Last week I saw the following sentence written on the ground in sidewalk chalk. "Don't be a a**" Hmmmmm, the irony was too much. I believe that should be written, "don't be an a**"
It's also Jacaranda and Agapantha season and the world is abloom in purple!!! So beautiful.
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Unless I'm running with someone, I always run with an iPod. The music keeps me going. I don't like background noise in pretty much every other situation (I almost never turn on music while driving unless I'm forced to by my people).
Funny about the smoking push-up guy. :) Keep enjoying your runs! I wish I had as much love for it as you do. You're inspiring.
Jacaranda and Agapantha: those two words always make me think of your mom.
We call Agapanthas the "4th of July plant" - because the blooms look like fireworks. I love them.
I so admire your running ability. Along with many of your other abilities. You are a wonderful lady!
I also like to run without music! But every now and then it's nice not to think and just put in something mindless.
I've always been impressed that you run - with or without music. I only can run with a buddy (like my husband). Otherwise I wimp out and walk (well right now I have a good excuse just to walk)...
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