Two runners, journalist Matt Kurton and Sean Blair from Audiofuel, debate whether music offers valuable motivation or a dangerous distraction
Matt Kurton: 'I take much more notice of what's going on
around me and of the way my body is working'
Several years ago, blogging here about training for the
London Marathon, I wrote a post comparing running without music to watching a
film with the sound turned off. At the time, music was a fundamental part of my
running routine: I was no more likely to head out of the door without my iPod
than I was to go running in a spacesuit.
