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<\/p>\nA hand-me-down ipod nano has been a welcome running companion for the last couple of years. The stock bud earphones that came with it have taken a bit of a beating what with sweat and whatever inclement weather, and the sound was becoming increasingly crackly and intermittently mono. So I bought some reasonably priced but appropriately sporting earphones – <\/p>\n
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– that would a) be somewhat more resistant to its operating environment\/s and b) not joggle out of my ears.<\/p>\n
My first discovery about in-ear phones – personal information alert – was that my left and right ear canals require different sized silicone sleeves. My second discovery was the initially disconcerting amount of external sound that they block out.<\/p>\n
My journey of discovery didn’t stop there. The following are a few other things I’ve observed with the new ‘phones on my runs:<\/p>\n
1. the percussion I’m hearing for the very first time on a track might actually be my own laboured breathing through the ‘phones;<\/p>\n
2. the bass line that’s a little out of sync with a song is probably my heart hammering away; and<\/p>\n
3. my apologies to startled and bemused pedestrians and runners on my loop – I sometimes forget the effectiveness of the silicone sleeves and am wheeze-singing along to Whitney<\/b>‘s Queen of the Night<\/a> rather than lip-syncing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A hand-me-down ipod nano has been a welcome running companion for the last couple of years. The stock bud earphones that came with it have taken a bit of a beating what with sweat and whatever inclement weather, and the sound was becoming increasingly crackly and intermittently mono. So I bought some reasonably priced but … <\/p>\n