Running with music can inspire you to go faster and longer.

from runnersworld.com

In a life lived with passion, two passions intersecting is like harmonic convergence: a perfect marriage of wine with food, politics with ideals, peanut butter with chocolate. Each passion has its singular pleasure, but the alchemy of the two together is almost too much fun to handle. So it is for me with running and music. Don't get me wrong: The feeling of a spring breeze in the air as you round a downhill bend heading into the final mile of an early morning training run, a panoramic view of freshly plowed fields laid out in front of you as the butterflies fly, the birds sing, the kindly neighbors wave, and the little kids setting up their roadside lemonade stand give you the thumbs-up and yell "Lookin' good!"-nothing beats the Zen rush of such a blissful experience. More