Audio Fuel – Easy Beats

A man named Sean (not to be confused with Shaun) took pity on me yesterday and emailed me and said as you’ve lost your phone, wallet and forty English pounds, would you like some free running music from Audio Fuel?  And I said no, not really, what do I want any freebies for? but you’ve probably already guessed that is a complete lie as what I really said was ooh, what a gentleman, yes please, I would indeed like some free running music and so the man named Sean (not to be confused with Shaun) sent me five compilations of free running music and I extract the files and with each compilation is a 22 page pdf giving advice on exercise, music, injury prevention, running kit and good nutrition and I especially like the running kit bit as that means clothes and I also especially like the good nutrition bit as that means eating and the compilations are a piece of you know what to install onto iTunes and the compilations I’ve been given range from Easy Beats for a slower run to Full Tilt for (to quote the man named Sean (not to be confused with Shaun)) when a rabid dog is chasing you when you are desperate to use the loo, and your house is on fire.

Unsurprisingly, as I’ve been such a weed lately, I decide to test out the Easy Beats compilation which starts off with a 10 minute track at 125bpm and continues with five more tracks at 140bpm and 145bpm and that’s the last thing I’m going to say about bpm as I haven’t a clue what I’m talking about.

I get outside and switch on my iPod.  How am I supposed to run to this?  I’m never going to keep up and it’s going too fast and I don’t understand this dancey kind of music as it’s all jumbled up and I’m an indie/rock chick but it’s kind of uplifting and I don’t hate it and so I carry on and the first track ends after 10 minutes and I look at my Garmin and I’ve done almost a mile and I think wow, that’s faster than I’ve done for a long long time and the next song comes on and I think I recognise this but then they’re singing in French or something and I think hmm, maybe I don’t recognise it after all but I like it and I get past the tree and there’s an old couple on bicycles coming down the road and the old lady is in front of the old man by quite a way and I think yay, you go old lady, beat the old man and I get to a mile and a half and I stop and turn round to come back the way I came and I’m quite enjoying the music even if I can’t keep to the beat and I go past the tree and there’s another old man on a bicycle and I think it must be National Old People On Bikes Day today or something and he’s got a very red face and I think it’s the sheep killer from the other day and maybe he’s got a red face as he’s embarrassed to be a sheep killer and then I’m back out on the main road and there’s a cyclist coming down the pavement and I think OI, CYCLIST, GET OFF THE PAVEMENT and he pulls in and lets me go past and I feel bad and I should stop thinking all cyclists are like London cyclists, i.e. ignorant, selfish twats and I get home and I’ve done three miles in my quickest time for ages and ages and ages and I think the free running music compilation worked.  Yay.

Stats:
Distance: 3.1 miles
Time: 32:51
Pace: 10:34 m/m
Calories: 310
Men called Sean not to be confused with Shaun: 1
Free running music compilations: 5
Old people on bicycles: 3
Cyclists on pavements: 1
Music:
Audio Fuel’s Easy Beats compilation

7 comments

  • OMG you’re hilarious and yay for the quick time!

  • I ALWAYS go faster when I listen to music, I find it impossible not to. Well done on -almost- keeping up!

    I actually encountered some friendly and considerate cyclists along the canal/marshes today. It is a first though.

  • Thanks Fawn!

    I always run with music but I’ve been v. slow lately. I did have the music turned up louder today though.

  • Music makes a massive difference to me. I go from very slow to just slow when I’ve got my power tracks playing 🙂

  • Ooh, intriguing. I’m a bit of an indie chick too and have tended to steer clear of all this dancey running stuff, but maybe it’s worth investigating….

    I always run with music, except for one time last week when I discovered too late that my MP3 player’s battery was flat (calamity!). The run seemed much harder going without it.

  • Definitely worth investigating. In fact, I played it while I was on the rowing machine this morning and it motivated me to do an extra 10 minutes.

    I was one mile into a seven miler a couple of years ago when my battery ran out. I seriously considered going home but I carried on, it was hard though.

  • I love running to dancy stuff but I accidentally put some of The Cranberries (who I love) on my running ipod once and that was painful to run too.

    Yay for freebies, embarrased sheep killers and fast old lady cyclists

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