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Spinoff: what's your aural inspiration? (Read 326 times)
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Registered for #2
 posted: 3/24/2008 at 10:41 PM
What gets you pumped before a race...heavy metal music, techno, hip-hop/rap, NPR...?

I like techno/electronica/dance. My iTunes downloads over the past 2 years are hilarious. Not so much of the sort of stuff I would listen to for general enjoyment, but a lot of stuff with a heavy beat...the old "has a good beat and you can dance to it" sort of thing. Extra long remixes are great, too...nothing like a 7+ minute club remix for my 99¢.
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obiebyke
posted: 3/24/2008 at 10:50 PM
Yeah yeah! NPR! Thanks for the nod. I think. Wink

I was listening to NPR to calm myself. When I want to pump up, sometimes I listen to Ode to Joy. Is that less dorky? Confused I agree, though, on remixes of pop songs.
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 posted: 3/24/2008 at 10:52 PM
Quote from obiebyke on 3/24/2008 at 10:50 PM:
Yeah yeah! NPR! Thanks for the nod. I think. Wink

I was listening to NPR to calm myself.


Heh, DH is a total NPR geek. Different strokes and all. Smile I would think "This American Life" could put someone into a drooling coma, though. Wink
Kirsten
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Dragon76
posted: 3/24/2008 at 11:00 PM
Quote from obiebyke on 3/24/2008 at 10:50 PM:
When I want to pump up, sometimes I listen to Ode to Joy. Is that less dorky? Confused


If you are visualizing scenes from Die Hard, then I think it could be very inspiring. Smile
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Monkey Scratch
 posted: 3/24/2008 at 11:44 PM
My 10k PR was set after a night of very heavy drinking and a quickie in the morning before I literally ran to the race. It was a nice 5 mile warm up. Who said women weaken legs?

That's how I roll.
all you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be

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Dragon76
posted: 3/24/2008 at 11:52 PM
Quote from Marcus L S on 3/24/2008 at 11:44 PM:
My 10k PR was set after a night of very heavy drinking and a quickie in the morning before I literally ran to the race. It was a nice 5 mile warm up. Who said women weaken legs?

That's how I roll.


No, she said what's your aural inspiration. Stop bringing us down into the gutter.
Amy
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Have you ever wondered if there was more to life other than being really, really, ridiculously good looking?
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 posted: 3/24/2008 at 11:54 PM
Quote from Dragon76 on 3/24/2008 at 11:52 PM:
Stop bringing us down into the gutter.


Or at least clean the gutter up and make it cozy before dragging us down here...sheesh. Roll eyes Evil grin
Kirsten
'07: 1324.5 mi
'08: 1561 mi
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.: 2009 Goals :.
• Run 1750 miles
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• PRs: 5k ~ 15k ~ 25k? ~ HM ~ 26.2
• 1st trail relay (North Country)
Marcus L S
Monkey Scratch
 posted: 3/24/2008 at 11:56 PM
Quote from Dragon76 on 3/24/2008 at 11:52 PM:
No, she said what's your aural inspiration. Stop bringing us down into the gutter.


Oh, ok. Listening to trance while having a quickie following a night of heavy drinking.

How's that?
all you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be

Obesity is a disease. Yes, a disease where nothing tastes bad...except salads.
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 posted: 3/24/2008 at 11:57 PM
Quote from Marcus L S on 3/24/2008 at 11:56 PM:
Oh, ok. Listening to trance while having a quickie following a night of heavy drinking.

How's that?


Heavy drinking, 'eh...? Trance...are you sure you didn't do "E"? Evil grin
Kirsten
'07: 1324.5 mi
'08: 1561 mi
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• Ladies Locker Room •

.: 2009 Goals :.
• Run 1750 miles
• 2 marathons (May - Bayshore, Fall - ?)
• PRs: 5k ~ 15k ~ 25k? ~ HM ~ 26.2
• 1st trail relay (North Country)
Marcus L S
Monkey Scratch
 posted: 3/24/2008 at 11:58 PM
Quote from zoom-zoom on 3/24/2008 at 11:57 PM:
Heavy drinking, 'eh...? Trance...are you sure you didn't do "E"? Evil grin


Damn drug damaged pea-sized brain. Yes, E!!! Now that's how I really roll!
all you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be

Obesity is a disease. Yes, a disease where nothing tastes bad...except salads.
Hannibal Granite
posted: 3/25/2008 at 12:02 AM
I don't really like rap music, but before a race I'll sometimes listen to "Lose Yourself" the main theme track from the Movie "8 Mile" by Eminem. I particularly like the verse
"Success is my only muthaf****** option, failure's not...
So here I go, it's my shot
Feet fail me not
Cuz maybe the only opportunity that I got"
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Registered for #2
 posted: 3/25/2008 at 12:06 AM
Quote from Hannibal Granite on 3/25/2008 at 12:02 AM:
I don't really like rap music, but before a race I'll sometimes listen to "Lose Yourself" the main theme track from the Movie "8 Mile" by Eminem. I particularly like the verse
"Success is my only muthaf****** option, failure's not...
So here I go, it's my shot
Feet fail me not
Cuz maybe the only opportunity that I got"


That is a song present in many of my playlists.
Kirsten
'07: 1324.5 mi
'08: 1561 mi
...

• Ladies Locker Room •

.: 2009 Goals :.
• Run 1750 miles
• 2 marathons (May - Bayshore, Fall - ?)
• PRs: 5k ~ 15k ~ 25k? ~ HM ~ 26.2
• 1st trail relay (North Country)
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Blaine Moore
 posted: 3/25/2008 at 1:30 AM
I don't listen to music. I'm boring.
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Sunrise
 posted: 3/25/2008 at 4:01 AM
When I'm driving to a race in the morning, it means I am in the car, by myself. This doesn't happen a lot in my regular life. I don't commute by car, and from the moment I wake up in the morning or come back in from my run, I have the kids at my knees, asking, demanding, whining, informing . . . . Gotta love 'em, but it's not the best way to appreciate Morning Edition.

So, yes, absolutely, I listen to NPR on the way to the race, and if I hang out in the car to keep warm beforehand. It's bliss, really, uninterrupted listening in a cozy warm car. So relaxing, calms any jitters.
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evtish
posted: 3/25/2008 at 4:07 AM
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory; Puddle of Mud; AC/DC - LIVE; Papa Roach - Last Resort; Nickelback - the non overplayed on the radio stuff; Buckcherry - Crazy B; Stained - Been Awhile; Finger 11 - Paralyzer;

FAST, LOUD, and HARD...as long as the beat is a factor of 180.
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