First, an admission: I love music and I also listen to plenty of podcasts when I’m sat around at home or diving around the country, but I rarely wear headphones while running or riding, or doing any other outdoor activities in the wilds. I run on trails almost exclusively, avoiding tarmac wherever possible, because road running bores me to tears.
And one of the things I love about lacing up my trail running shoes and going scampering along forest footpaths, hillside trails and coastal tracks is the twittering of woodland birds, the noise of the wind in the trees and the sound of the sea shoving pebbles around on my local beaches.
