{"id":926560,"date":"2026-10-09T13:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T13:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/926560\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T13:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T13:22:10","slug":"dunlevy-dumas-goes-the-distance-with-mount-royal-themed-running-music-just-in-time-for-montreal-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/926560\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunlevy: Dumas goes the distance with Mount Royal-themed running music, just in time for Montreal marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are two kinds of runners: those who run with music and those who don\u2019t. (I\u2019m one of the crazies in the latter camp.) And then there\u2019s Dumas. The popular Quebec singer-songwriter, whose song Une journ\u00e9e parfaite went viral after being featured on the Heated Rivalry soundtrack, has released Marathon 2 (Mont-Royal), a four-track instrumental EP inspired by running and the mountain, a runners\u2019 mecca that draws enthusiasts from all corners of the city. It follows last year\u2019s Marathon EP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like its predecessor, Marathon 2 (Mont-Royal) arrives just in time for Sunday\u2019s Montreal marathon \u2014 a big day for me, as it will be my first time running 42.2K. Dumas will run the half-marathon on Sunday and perform a DJ set near the finish line Saturday at 11:15 a.m. for the 10K crowd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He and I met up on Mount Royal \u2014 where else? \u2014 Thursday morning for a run in the rain that ended with parting clouds and glorious rays of sunshine poking through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are two kinds of runners: those who run with music and those who don\u2019t. (I\u2019m one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":926561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-926560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}