Eye of the tiger?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

What dudes training for the London Marathon have on their ipods

Some peculiar picks from these two: dude 1 swaps between Metallica and the Mountain Goats, dudette 2 sticks with Britpop/mainstream indie.

- Assuming you do some exercise, what do you prefer to soundtrack it with (if anything)?
- If you have never so much as broken a sweat, what music do you use to psyche yourself up for something/motivate yourself to keep going?

Comments

[koganbot]

I'd be curious how it is that marathoners can listen to different songs consecutively without this affecting their pace.

I have never used a walkman (nor that new thingy, whatever it's called) when exercising - or at all, actually - being that my only outdoor exercise is "brisk walking." But when I walk (which is always brisk walking* because I am naturally impatient) I pace myself by having songs going in my mind, different tunes for whether I'm going uphill, down, or flat, and of course different tunes for how fast my "fast" is. My basic pace used to be "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" but then I upped it to "John Hardy," but when I'm getting too tired I'll drop back down to "Grapevine" and of course uphill will pull me down further to "Muirshin Durkin" (Pogues version) or something even slower.

*Except when I'm carrying heavy groceries