I don't wear earphones on my commute, but I've been known to put together a long playlist on my Zune for solo 200k rides. My commute is only 45-ish minutes and I'm usually concentrating on whatever my specific workout regimen is: Clock-watching doing interval sprints, checking my speed doing hill repeats, etc.
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"I feel like my world was classier before I found cyclocross."
- Mandi M.