good on yer, WOEBOT!...I started running in high school, and never stopped...that was (sigh) 26 years ago, so I guess you could say I'm into it...
advice above from Jenks and Silverdollar seconded...(I personally do not use music on my runs...the environment seems to provide it's own soundtrack)...
personal horror story: once while running pre-dawn, a very large insect flew into my mouth and lodged itself in my esophagus...I couldn't pass it one way or the other, and it was very uncomfortable, to say the least...I continued my run to the local hospital, where the emergency room doctors sucked it out with the thing the dentists use to get spit out of your mouth...turned out to be a horse fly!...one in a million chance, of course...(ER docs inflicted more pain with their damn prodding than the bug did)...
one thing I've learned: always give dogs as wide a berth as you can...they mostly don't like to be startled, and can be counted on to tell you so...