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Comment by Med on October 6, 2011 at 8:42am

First of all I'll echo Mike in wishing well those of you with races this weekend. I'm just doing a local 5k.

I've never run with music. Even on longer runs I rarely if ever get bored. Sometimes I just take in the scenery, sometimes I listen to my breathing or my footfalls, and sometimes I just let my mind wander. If I WERE going to listen to music, I'd mirror a lot of what acidrock said (minus the Dead).

Finally, I do some calisthenics nearly every morning, but all core and a little upper body. I know I'm getting to the age when I should take strength training more seriously, I just really don't enjoy it.

Comment by Mike on October 6, 2011 at 6:13am

To all those competing this weekend - Denver, Chicago and anywhere else - good luck. Hope you meet your goals but most importantly, feel good and enjoy it.

I'll just be running another 20 miler this weekend

Comment by acidrock23 on October 6, 2011 at 4:28am

I started lifting again maybe 3 months ago? I'd stopped b/c I felt like the benefit would be questionable if I couldn't do it 3x/ week (no research, just a sense...) and maybe just lazy but I started again after getting sort of creaky on some of the long runs and felt better quickly. I have a gym in basement and do chest presses, pulldowns, curls and then knee extensions and these back kicks w/ the cable to hit my glutes. Occasionally I toss in other stuff but those make me feel better in general and when I'm running and after running.

Comment by Mike on October 5, 2011 at 11:18pm

I do a little bit of body weight stuff. TRX, squats.... I only do it once to twice a week.
Hill training is a great way to work your legs.

Comment by Mike on October 5, 2011 at 11:02pm

I read an article in the NY Times about running and how pros ran without music concentrating on the run and not trying to think about other things when they run. So I decided to stop running with music about a year ago.
I only use my ipod on recovery runs every once in a while.

Comment by offroadaction on October 5, 2011 at 8:05pm

Off topic, but what do you do for leg training? I go to the gym 5 mornings a week, plus 5-8 fast run on Tuesday nights, followed by dodgeball later in the evening. I also run 6-10k on Thursdays nights and a long run on Sundays. When should I work my legs at the gym, or should I even bother?

Comment by offroadaction on October 5, 2011 at 7:58pm

I started running with other people about a year ago and stopped listening to music. I ran a race a few weeks ago with music and it screwed me right up. Weird how I could not run without music before and now cannot run WITH it.

Comment by acidrock23 on October 5, 2011 at 5:57pm

Oh man that's a dangerous question for me, I think I have like 17K songs on my big iPod and have all sorts of stuff. I did sort of uptempo stuff for a while. For 5K, stuff like Tool/ Ministry/ Dropkick Murphys but I have a lot flakier or maybe diverse playlists? I ran like 8 miles in a blizzard to Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet" a couple of years ago. I made a "floaty" mix that I listened to a lot and tweaked over the summer, psychedelic jams, some classical pieces, a few Gregorian Chants, "Spem in Alium"is freaking awesome with headphones too. I had a couple really nice 7 milers to Vivaldi too, a music teacher so the beats are very strong.  I go through Dead phases periodically too..."Long distance rider" from "Fire on the Mountain" is cool but some of the live versions are 20-30 minutes long easily.  There's a lot of free d/l of that on the web that will splice the Scarlet---->Fire jams together?

as far as your suggesiton for uptempo stuff, some of the old Maiden is good (Flight of Icarus, Run to the Hills), Fugazi are really good, pretty lively playing and the sort of pounding/ thought provoking vocals that will make me dig deeper.  For hip hop, I will drift towards the more flowy things, although I wish "Corner Bodega" by 50 Cent was longer?  The Beastie Boys have a lot of cool shit too, with trippy space gong noises flying all over the echoplex through my headphones.  Kyuss are good too, sort of a dry sound good for summer heat?  One last kind of off the beaten path band are Thin White Rope, from Davis, CA.  Late 80s band sort of hard country but not Nashville at all, "Hunter's Moon", "Thing", "Americana--->The Ghost" is a great pair that have kind of a burnt out folky jam drifting into a feedback-laden "Amazing Grace" jam w/ different lyrics, really blistering feedback though.  Guy Keyser's voice also has a burnt quality that is great > 10 miles for me?  "Last Word" by Archers of Loaf (admittedly, not a good band name!!) is a great song with potent, tribal drumming.  Before I shut up, The Black Angels from Austin, TX are freaking fantastic tribal drumming!  I've seen them a couple of times, really heavy psychedelic, not metal or anything but a lot of sleigh bells, stray floor toms on the floor that band members just well, tribe on, while they play the movie "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" over melting psychedelic gels.  Their orange album has some great cuts for running! 

Comment by Brian on October 5, 2011 at 4:25pm

if you happen to listen to music while running...what's on your playlist? looking for some good up tempo music suggestions.

Comment by acidrock23 on October 3, 2011 at 3:46pm

Hmmm, the bleeding and scraping sounds like a great strategy Jerry! Most of my finish line photos end up looking at my watch but a zombie is probably a good look for me?

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