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Candotri Gear Review - Sony MDR-AS20J headphones

Manufacturer's Page

See my review of the Sennheiser PMX 80 Sport II headphones for what I look for in a headphone and what I've tried. A summary of that article: finding headphones that work is hard work.

The design of these headphones places a speaker at the entrance to your ear canal, but not inside. The loopy bits go outside your outer ear and there's a clip that clips the wire to your shirt to provide strain relief.

Although the sound from these is not as good as the sound from the PMX 80s, these provide good value and definitely stay in place while running.

Good Things about these headphones

Candotri Gear Review - Sennheiser PMX 80 headphones

Review

Manufacturer's Product Page

September 3 2010 update: I definitely don't like sitting at my desk wearing these. The very slight inward pinching that is easily ignored while running is not so easily ignored when sitting. The sound is definitely decent without the overwhelming base you often find in earphones. Like!

Last year I started to use music with specific beat-per-minute counts for running speed work and podcasts for long runs. Now I can't do my runs without my mp3 player! I tried, really I did, but it was too hard.

After solid-state mp3 players were invented the weakest link in the runner's music playing system became the headphones.

The problem? They suck. Because of all of the motion they pull, they yank, they fall. Worst of all, they require constant readjustment to ensure comfort and decent sound. This constant adjustment takes away from the experience that is running and can cause earphone rage.

candotri 011: volunteering and directing

Show Notes

011 glenn patkau giving directions at moes triathlon 2010

Being more vegetarian
Volunteering at the Living Sky Tri
Training report from Jennifer
Interview with Glenn Patkau

Quote: "Running long and hard is an ideal antidepressant, since it's hard to run and feel sorry for yourself at the same time. Also, there are those hours of clearheadedness that follow a long run." -Monte Davis

Intro music: 'Heat' by Wheatmonkeys. Used with the permission of the artists. Check them out on iTunes and at wheatmonkeys.com

Closing Music: 'Badlands' by Johnny Grit. Used with the permission of the artists. Check them out on iTunes and on MySpace, Twitter, and Facebook

The Candotri podcast by Chad Matsalla is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Canada License. Based on a work at candotri.com.

candotri 011 was published on 22 August 2010

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candotri 010: Spin Off Spadina 2010

Show Notes

Spin Off Spadina 2010 results:
- overall: 2:28:44 41/110 16/23 age group
- swim: 22:29 (1:30/100M) 7th
- bike: 1:10:41 (34km/h) 22nd
- run: 55:35 (5:18/km) 83rd

"Running is not, as it so often seems, only about what you did in your last race or about how many miles you ran last week. It is, in a much more important way, about community, about appreciating all the miles run by other runners, too." --Richard O'Brien

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. --Albert Einstein

The sense of life being alright is inconceivable and unfeelable unless way in the back of your mind the glimmer of a possibility that something absolutely unspeakably awful might happen. There has to be the possibility that something awful can happen or things can't be alright. --Alan Watts - Intellectual Yoga #1

Listen to Alan Watts - Taoist Way #6 regarding intellectualization

Intro music: 'Heat' by Wheatmonkeys. Used with the permission of the artists.
Check them out on iTunes and at wheatmonkeys.com

Closing Music: 'Badlands' by Johnny Grit. Used with the permission of the artists.
Check them out on iTunes and on MySpace, Twitter, and Facebook

The Candotri podcast by Chad Matsalla is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution 2.5 Canada License. Based on a work at candotri.com.

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