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play running music preview Tout Le Monde à Poil
Hella Sound
5:00 min @
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play running music preview How To Turn Around A Bad Day
Hella Sound
30:00 min @
$2.99
play running music preview What Are You Made Of?!?
Hella Sound
30:00 min @
$2.99
play running music preview As You Wish
Hella Sound
30:00 min @
$2.99
play running music preview It’s Something Like This
Bill Dolan
35:00 min @
180 BPM
$2.99
play running music preview Know It When I See It
Hella Sound
5:00 min @
FREE!
play running music preview Lactate Repeats: All My Everything
Hella Sound
36:00 min @
180 BPM
$2.99
play running music preview Step-Ups: Elation
Marshall Watson
35:00 min @
180 BPM
$2.99
play running music preview Strides: Choose To Run
Lady Southpaw & Jonathan Jones
26:00 min @
180 BPM
$2.99

Running with Music: Quest for the Perfect Gear

in the category: Gear

Imagine, if you will, running through the streets of 1771 Salzburg to a freshly commissioned Mozart piece...

John at Hella Sound

John Frenette is the Founder of Hella Sound Running Music. He’s a musician, hobbyist runner, and sucker for technology.
Tweet him up at @HellaSound.

...trailing you is a flock of 80 musicians, all desperately trying to keep pace while maintaining a consistent allegro. The string section is slipping in and out of key, a trumpet player falls ass-over-teakettle, and a bassoonist has swallowed his reed.

Disastrous.

running music headphones

We are blessed to live in an age when music is completely portable. Music—once bound to visible grooves in vinyl—now lives as electron-sized ones and zeroes on a digital landscape. Headphones have scaled down, and the quality has gone up. MP3 players are small enough to pick a lock.

Science, art and fitness are making vigorous merry in an unabashed ménage à trois.

It is a wonderful time to be a running music lover.

Unless I’ve forgotten to charge my equipment, I always run with music. (Almost every time I leave the house to run, it occurs to me that, between my music and my Garmin, I carry more technology than the Apollo program took to the moon.) In the course of years, I’ve gone through many different players, headphones and carrying equipment. The fact is, amongst this technological embarrassment of riches, some gear is better than others.

Over a series of posts, I’d like to share with you what equipment (headphones, players), accessories (armbands, clips) and software I’ve found to be the best for running with music, as well as some tricks I’ve devised for optimizing the experience. Hopefully this’ll help you enjoy your running and your running music more over the miles.

Check back soon for our first installment on headphones!

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