A D&B DJ had accidentally become my running coach. I'd just never bothered to time it, but I guess I had now. Why did that ring a bell? Because years earlier, I'd been told the ideal cadence for runners - the number of times your feet hit the ground in a minute - was 180. Etherwood's trance-like tunes tend to sit at the top of that range.Ī D&B DJ had accidentally become my running coach. Turns out the Beats Per Minute of all D&B is in the range of 160 to 180 BPM. But they did clue me into the fact that Etherwood's beat was Drum & Bass, or D&B - a genre I'd enjoyed dancing to in clubs, when I occasionally went to them, in the late 1990s.
Most were a tad too slow, or distractingly discordant. (Believe me, I tried.) But Spotify does a pretty good job of playing similar tracks automatically when you're done, and slipping more of them into your Discover Weekly playlist.įew of its suggestions worked for me.
The mind craves novelty, of course, so you can't just listen to the same track over and over for the length of a multi-mile run. Nothing in "Running Most Wanted" had ever come close to this feeling, like I was floating down the street and could keep going at this pace forever. And the break gave me a chance to slow down and check myself for aches and pains before picking up again, more joyfully insistent than before. The tripping beat matched my short-but-rapid forefoot strides. The spare piano track and humming bass soothed me into Zen-like trance. "Begin By Letting Go," by the London-based DJ known as Etherwood, spoke of shrugging off all the worries that grumbled around in my brain as I stepped reluctantly out of the front door. In 2016, after I'd switched from iTunes to Spotify, a friend sent a hypnotic dance track that randomly led to running perfection. But in trying to find a consistent pace for the long haul, they would sometimes be de-motivational: sound and fury that may have matched my heart rate, but failed to sync up with my feet. Basic bangers like U2's "Beautiful Day" or Springsteen's "Born to Run" were great if I wanted to sprint. I'd make iTunes playlists with names like "Running Most Wanted," then wonder why they didn't fit the bill. Finding my BPMīack in 2010, I assumed - as many runners assume - that inspirational lyrics and a thumping beat were all you needed. But when it comes to achieving musical bliss while pounding the pavement, I will take on all-comers. I remain laughably distant from the fastest runner in my age group. I'm just as proud of the result as I am of my races, from the first 5K to the San Francisco marathon. The making of these magic playlists was a musical journey that has lasted almost as long as my running adventure. My workout apps reveal that if I listen to other music, or podcasts, or audiobooks, I rarely run faster than an 11-minute mile, and I will tap out after fewer miles on average. They keep me running faster and further than any other, and I have data to back that up. These two playlists don't just start me up. I grab my trusty Bose SoundSports, stick my iPhone in a running belt and I'm suddenly keen to get going. Specifically, music that I have spent more than a year curating for my ideal running cadence.īefore every run, I fire up one of two mega-playlists on Spotify.
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No, what really makes me lace up my shoes these days, even when the weather is dismal and I'm full of don't wanna, is.music. Why do I stick with it in 2021, though, hitting a consistent 25 miles a week, when many of those friends quit running years ago? Why am I taking my runs to the next level with nose-breathing, even gladly running in a mask for the duration of the pandemic? It isn't just that running shaves off pounds or that endorphins are one hell of a drug. Above all, I realized that it didn't look dumb, and was not in any way cheating, if I ran at barely faster than walking speed. I accepted it as my main form of exercise a decade ago thanks to a grab bag of influences: friends who loved running a sister who took up marathons a Couch to 5K app the hugely persuasive 2009 book on how we evolved for distance running, Born to Run. When I was a kid, running was little more than a breath-stealing punishment invented by PE teachers.
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