In earphones falling out of ears while running

[H Potter]

Hi

I bought Sony's "Wearable Walkman" (NWZ-W202) a few months ago as it got good reviews with regards to staying on during sport.

I've had in-earphones in the past (so I'm used to wearing in-earphones) which have fallen out when running quite quickly (17kph for me) and thought this would be the solution. And for a while I found these quite good but not brilliant.

I have the large earbud on the left and medium on the right which through previous experimentations seems to be the best fit for me. Now they have become completely unusable when running as the left hand side just falls out immediately and even worse when sweaty!

Its so bad that I'm having to push them back in every 3 or 4 seconds, so pretty much holding them on all the time!

I've not sat on the wlakman or squashed it etc so I dont know whats going on.

Basically I'm wondering if there is a different "in-earphone" (I mean the rubber bits, but with a better fiting shape?) or a different product that I could change to which will GENUINELY stay in during vigorous sport with sweaty ears! IE not just marketing rubbish!

Otherwise, it looks like I'll be throwing the Wearable Walkman in the bin and going back to the leaky old back of the neck headphones :(

Cheers

H

[carlobee]

i have been using in-ear earphones too.. i just use the regular apple in-ear earphones. i jog. i run.. it doesn't fall out of my ears.

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[vermaak]

For quick running you'll want to remove as much weight as possible from your ears. Not really what you wanted to hear after buying the NWZ-W202.

The option I would go for would be to get a light mp3 player and some good in-ears with foam tips. I just bought from this site some Comply t100's to go on my Shure SE210's which are supposed to fit very snugly in the ear. Then next step for me is to get some custom ear molds for the SE210's which should stand up the the most vigorous of workouts. but the molds will cost about £90. TBH the foam tips should work well for running. Shure, Ultimate Ears, Klipsh are some of the in-ear headphones to go for and you can check this link to find the correct tips for the earphones you use.

Of course if you don't want to go through the extra expense of that lot you could always wear a sweat band over the Sony unit?! :unsure: