I have recently taken to using bone conduction headphones on training rides. I listen to podcasts, largely about history. This has had two effects. The first is a knowledge of history that is inextricably linked to local geography, as the things I’m listening to weld themselves to the things I’m looking at. For example, Marie Antoinette is now firmly associated with an industrial estate access road outside St. Neots in a way that I don’t think she’d have liked.
The second effect of the podcasts is that the new voices I have in my head have made me think about the voices that used to be in there instead.
