Weekly Check-In

[ell]

How are your last weeks of summer (winter for those down under) training going? Any races coming up for you?

Quote for today is from yours truly:
Running makes us feel alive and keeps the demons at bay so we run. It's not a competition with anyone else and that includes our past selves and our future selves. We run because it makes us feel good.

And a question - what's your favorite running music?

Comments

[linaelyn]

And a question - what's your favorite running music?

Ha! No music at all! I much prefer to run in silence. I know this puts me in the minority! I just don't like the extraneous input, and my running time is some of my best "thinking time"; music would just interfere with that.

No races planned ahead. I'm trying to maintain some small semblance of conditioning in the face of the busy scheduling that the start of the school year entails.

[shadowkitty]

Minority of two! Listening to music always makes me feel very vulnerable, especially if I'm on a road.

[ell]

*grin* I was expecting at least one comment about listening to the sounds of nature, etc, but I didn't expect the first commenters to both feel that way :-)

With me, it's about 50-50 whether I run with the iPod or not - I usually listen to music on any run over an hour just because I get bored, especially on the (citified) trails near me.

[shadowkitty]

For me it's partially conditioning. My coach thinks it's dangerous and yells at anyone he finds doing it. I don't dare!

[nanila]

Minority of three? I don't like listening to music while interacting with the outdoors, running or otherwise. It makes me too unaware of what's going on around me.

In the gym on a treadmill, though, I think I'd eat my own hand out of boredom if I didn't listen to electro!

[dancing_serpent]

Minority of four? *g* Breathing technique and running to music doesn't work for me. To hold my breathing pattern, I can't listen to music - I'd always try to match my steps to the rhythm, and that messes with my breathing.

No runs last week courtesy of a nasty cold and almost constand rain.

[ell]

I pick my running music with specific beats and timing in mind to help me keep a steady pace. As a result, my running mixes are almost entirely 80s pop and irish folk tunes...

[dancing_serpent]

*g* Running to Irish folk sounds interesting. The best method for me to keep a steady pace is counting my breaths in my head.

[nanila]

The best method for me to keep a steady pace is counting my breaths in my head.

I do this too! It also serves as a rough measure of distance traveled, though I like to check that with the Google Maps distance measurement tool as well.