✔ Sport Music fitness tones a legal drug for athletes, claims Dr Costas Karageorghis Sport Runner Music , an expert on the effects of Sport Music Musicon exercise, at Brunel University. In his latest book, Inside Sport Music Psychology, he claims that listening to Sport Music Musicwhile running can boost performance by up to 15%.

✔ If this is true, then the Rock'n'Roll marathon series is on to something. The events, a fixture in the US for almost 15 years, are extremely popular, with 450,000 people running in one of its 2012 races alone. Many other big city races have the occasional band along the route, and London has had the Run to the Beat half-marathon, lined with DJs, for the past five years. But on 15 April the UK finally got its first taste of the action, with the inaugural Edinburgh Rock'n'Roll half-marathon.

✔ As I lined up at the start with almost 4,000 other runners, we were serenaded by Edinburgh's Got Talent winner Caitlyn Vanbeck. With Arthur's Seat towering above us, it was stirring stuff, and may explain why I shot off at the front, following the lead car around the first few bends.

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After spending six months training in Kenya last year, I have become something of a serious runner, and finished eighth. This is important because, according to Karageorghis Sport Runner Music , the benefits of listening to Sport Music Musicdecrease with the level of intensity of the running. The faster you run, he explains, the less effect the Sport Music Musichas.