We Live Here, Pat Metheny
We Live Here, Pat Metheny
Its ok to listen to music a few hours before a race, but if you are still listening to it within 3 hours of a race, you are not focused enough. It takes focus with no distractions to adequately prepare for a race. I have seen lots of runners who I beat with headphones on right before a race. I have yet to see a runner who can beat me when I'm in shape who listens to "pump up music". Like I said before, music is for the weak when it comes to running.
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hmmm, I recall reading about a study on the affect of music on running performance. It turned out that people were able to run for a longer time (and therefore distance) if they listened to, shall we say, calming music while they ran. Energetic tunes tended to do the exact opposite. I don't know if that translates to pre-race music, but I find that I prefer a quieter, less busy space for best performance.
Having said that, doing a long run on the treadmill during a particularly cruel winter day requires at least one of the following:
Peter Gabriel (esp. So or Us)
King Crimson (almost any, but esp. the double live B'BOOM)
Almost any Frank Zappa
Rush (Roll the Bones and Signals particularly)
Steely Dan (Two Against Nature particularly)
Obviously, not a parade of hip-hop...
JOHN MOODY OF RACINE, WISCONSIN AND STEVE UNDERWOOD (DYESTAT ADMINISTRATOR) OF ROSWELL, GEORGIA HARRASS BY NAME INNOCENT MINORITIES ON MESSAGE BOARDS!
Old School wrote:
Yeah, some air-tight logic there, bucko.
I'm with XCpotential on this
You're with "XCpotential"? Ha! Hardly. His post made sense while yours concluded that those who listen to music before racing must be dorky high school sophomores.
Excellent "logic", Aristotle.
Old School - a dorky high school Sophomore.
Lots of kick a$$ music in this discussion, which not only is ideal for preparing for a race, or long runs, but also makes for many enjoyable hours of listening on lengthy road trips. Often I find the needle pushing well over the legal limit when a great tune is pounding away.
Big Rudy -
Interesting choice, and a great flick, too. If you're a fan of The Boondock Saints, you might want to try the execution prayer. Not sure if it's available on the soundtrack, but very effective in the movie.
What about "Machinehead" by Bush! That is an awesome song.
"Breathe in, Breathe out, Breathe in, Breathe out!"
I highly suggest:
Rage Against The Machine - Wake Up
Nine Inch Nails - The Day The Whole World Went Away
Magma: Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh.
Can't beat it when you just have to run for 45 minutes fast....
Hamatai!
Gookin wrote:
We Live Here, Pat Metheny
Bold choice, friend, and an excellent one!
Add: Robin Trower, Bridge of Sighs.
Captain Coke wrote:
Old School wrote:Yeah, some air-tight logic there, bucko.
I'm with XCpotential on this
You're with "XCpotential"? Ha! Hardly. His post made sense while yours concluded that those who listen to music before racing must be dorky high school sophomores.
Excellent "logic", Aristotle.
Old School - a dorky high school Sophomore.
Wrong, cokehead. Same conclusion, just different ways of stating it. I can't do the thinking for you, sorry if I lost ya. Time will heal your wounds, kid.
CIAO.
Go easy on him, he was listening to mindless drivel on his headphones so he couldn't understand your point. I'm just playin about the mindless drivel, but seriously the music just seems to take some of the purity out of it along with being a distraction from the task at hand. How can standing in the bull pen or on an XC course seem quite as cool when you have noise being blasted into your ears? Silence before a race is the best, and no amount or type of music could make it better.
Old School Sophomore,
I was hoping you would share your "logic" on suppositions, assumptions, axioms, postulates, sylogisims, negations, conjunctions, unions, and lemmas, you dorky sophomore. Throw in something about converse contrapositive inverses while you're at it, son.
BTW, "Time will heal your wounds, kid" is a pretty good tune, but you should try something a touch more upbeat.
XCpotential,
It is thoroughly amusing watching you and Old School Sophomore tug at each others nut sacks.
Wow, that was a hell of a comeback. That really put me in my place. Anyways, you can go back to listening to your music and distracting yourself from the task at hand. I'll be focusing on how I'm going to out-run you and your ilk. Now, if you have any more immature personal insults for me you can tell them to me as I lap you.
C'mon XCpotential,
I'm just having a little fun with you. Not everyone that listens to music before a race does it *right* before the race. Sometimes it's a *day* before, sometimes an *hour* before. For others it might be *minutes* before. For me, somtimes not at all. It just depends on my mood.
As for lapping me, it depends on the race. If you plan on doing that in the mile you'll have to go within roughly 10 seconds of a 3 minute mile.
Captain Coke wrote:
XCpotential,
It is thoroughly amusing watching you and Old School Sophomore tug at each others nut sacks.
But not half as enriching as watching you fellate yourself and others over your "really kick-ass tunes, dude!" Now go get yourself all pumped up (yeah!) with righty tighty. We'll let you know when we want you to join the rest of us at the adult table, champ.
WOW! You're perhaps the fourth person I've come across in my entire life who's familiar with Magma (and one of them owned an import record store). I was always partial to "Attahk" myself.
Out on the fringe, I liked Henry Cow (esp. "In Praise of Learning" and "Western Culture"). I also liked the canterbury/progressive stuff such as National Health and Hatfield & the North. But when it comes to "room clearing music" nobody can touch Captain Beefheart (not even the Residents or Renaldo & the Loaf).
I prefer something a little more soothing before a race. Like the Beatles White Album. I find it calms me and I can appraoch the line ready to roll on people. I used to listen to fast stuff before races (like the Misfits) but then I would take the mile out faster than I should and put myself into Oxygen debt, not an effective racing strategy. As for the listening to music = lack of concentration debate, I'm calling Bullshit. For some people music prerace calms them down and helps them focus. I've seen guys so nervous before races they self-destruct before they even get to the line. You're body does not know the difference between mental and physical stress, anything to alleviate stress can only help before a race. There is a quote by Matt Tegenkamp that sums what I am trying to say quite nicely, "All ya have to do is not be edgy." Music can help some people "not be edgy".