Listen Up: Earphones For Runners
Training for any sport has its challenges, but tangled earphone wires shouldn’t be one of them.
Runner and triathlete Frank Dugger always trains with music, but while training for the Honolulu Marathon with Team in Training a few years ago, he became tired of constantly fixing his earphones and decided to put matters into his own hands.
“It gets tangled, pulled and falls out, and you have to mess with it,” he explains. “There was nothing on the market that really solved the problems, so one day I bought a pair of cheap earphones and it took me about two hours to come up with a prototype.”
He created shorter earphones that were tangle-free, and a year-and-a-half ago Dugger started iRun International, expanding his products to three styles of earphones, including a waterproof model, as well as running hybrid-compression socks, elastic shoe laces, racing belts and quick-dry hats.
