How Spotify helped me run faster and longer

When we spend so much of our time online, we’re bound to learn something while clicking and scrolling. Discover something new with Mashable’s series I learned it on the internet.

When I was a kid, running was little more than a breath-stealing punishment invented by PE teachers. I accepted it as my main form of exercise a decade ago thanks to a grab bag of influences: friends who loved running; a sister who took up marathons; a Couch to 5K app; the hugely persuasive 2009 book on how we evolved for distance running, Born to Run. Above all, I realized that it didn't look dumb, and was not in any way cheating, if I ran at barely faster than walking speed. Read more...