Re: Walkman
I'm a runner and unlike the younger generation I do not listen when I run. In large part because I never got into the habit. When I started the Sony Walkman was first introduced, the big heavy one. I could just about hang it off my split shorts but a tape only lasted 20 min per side (and you had to flip the tape for the other side) and my runs all took much longer than that. So I decided it wasn't worth investing my had earned paper run cash on.
The other reasons are I value being able to hear the wind in the trees, the waves on the shore, the bird song, even the corvids and hearing the declining doppler and engine note of a car coming from behind as I approach a side road alerting me to a possible collision scenario etc. etc. is too valuable to give up. Besides my brain is good at throwing random songs into my head when I'm running.