Oh that ' s me ! !! I run marathons and pretty much only listen to phish when I run . I only listen to music when I run on the treadmill though . I don ' t listen when I run outside or in races . My preference is to listen to entire shows since most of the time I ' m running for hour and making a playlist would stress me out . I can pretty much be sure I ' ll have music the whole time I ' m running . For your first half , I ' d recommend a show that you love and are familiar with so if you ' re tired you can be like keep running until the Mike bombs come . But not related to phish , make sure you also take your headphones off and enjoy the crowd noise . Especially when you are finishing , nothing else is like it . Edit if you choose fall of 2013 my suggestion would be reading , pa .