It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle. ~Ernest Hemingway
I think that running with an ipod is similar in that it detracts from the experience. I'm sure that is the very reason some runners prefer listening to music while they run. But maybe to run at your best you need to be in tune with your running, breathing, aches and pains, terrain, etc., not be distracted from these things?
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