We often talk about the benefits of aftershocks, the out of ear experience, so you can hear

a runner behind you or a car that's about to cut across your path as you're running

on the road.

A funny story on Saturday I was running down the trail and there was a lady in front

of me and I was gaining on her, which nearly never happened.

Were you in a car?

Never happens.

But in this case, I was gaining slowly and I didn't want to scare her, but I can tell

that she had her earphones in and she couldn't hear me and we're coming on a single track

and it's kind of sketchy and I said, ma'am, ma'am, I don't want to scare you and all of a sudden

she heard me and jumped about three feet in the air.

It's not fun.

You don't want to have that happen if I was a cougar, right?

I mean, or a snake or, right, you got to keep your ears open.

That's the point, Don.

You need to get your ears open.

That doesn't mean you can't listen to podcasts or music while you're running with aftershocks

bone-conductive headphones you can do both.

You know where another great place is, Scott?

It's in your own home, in the kitchen or the living room when you want to listen to something

but you don't want to lock out the people that are in your house.

It's important to have your ears open to be a family member or a person in that household

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