Long Run: To iPod or not to Ipod?
About to start 12 week beginner HIM plan for my first HIM. Typically run with my iPod for the obvious reasons. Simple question: use it to pass the time, etc. or ditch it and get used to being without it and resorting to interesting conversations with myself?
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I iPod. Need the music to push me through the intervals. I do not have that much interesting stuff to say, plus I already know it, so any conversation with myself would be endless eye-rolling.
Surely an iPod fan, but boy do i need to change up the music. Funny how quickly i forget to do it as soon as i get home!
Very rarely do I use and Ipod for run I have enough voices in my head
Inside, dreadmill, use it EVERY time. No way I could not use it there.
I usually run with mine but always make it a point to get some runs in, especially a long one, without it for race prep purposes.
This^^
My music collection sucks anyway, never been much of one to buy, listen to music. I just turn on the radio and search. But for long runs I load up podcasts.
running is like going to church or listening to your wise granpa/ma or meditation or observing a rarely seen animal in an endangered rain forest, etc.
put yourself in these aforementioned scenarios and then imagine yourself listening to and blasting music!!! instead of paying attention.
gh
I've downloaded some audiobooks from Audible.com and listened to them on longer, steady runs I'm not doing intervals on. EN podcasts are useful too!
I keep hearing about people that think they have to train without it...and maybe I'm just weird, but I usually ride my bike with an earbud going and run with two 99% of the tiem....and the thought of having an earbud just doesn't even come up in my racing. Way too focused. But maybe I'm not representative on this point.
Nike +Plus for me. She (I chose the female voice) gives me time, distance, & pace. Then, I don't have to run a pre-measured course & have flexibility to invent & explore new routes.
Well, I can at least let you know you aren't alone. While I don't ride with an iPod, I always do training runs with them. But I have never raced with one and never feel at all the need to "practice" running without the ipod. I just automatically switch to race gear somehow and don't need or want the music. I carried my iPod with me at a half marathon once thinking that maybe I'd like use the music for a little motivation towards the end- but it never made it out of my pocket.
However, tomorrow I'm TT'ing down the coast about 115-120 miles, working to catch some people. Will likely be solo for much of it. I plan to stream Pandora the whole way. 95% of my other rides are in the mountains = no reception = I need to listen to a playlist but my music sucks so I don't so I just listen to the voices in my head...
I almost always run with my ipod when I am alone. I like it. Certainly never miss it when racing. I also listen to tunes a lot in my office, car, pretty much all the time that I am not watching tv. I also like running in the TM and watching TV sometimes even when the weather is nice. Watching sportscenter and CNN for 40 minutes while running is a good way to stay in shape and reasonably informed. I also clearly have some sort of ADD and have been know to watch TV while listening to music and serfing the web on the computer while texting so YMMV
Never music on the bike outside
I never use music outside but will watch a movie or listen to music or a podcast on the treadmill. Running and riding outside are when I clear my head.
Podcasts are great for forgetting the pain :-) and some dance/techno music for speedwork :-)