pod casts

[betcha1982]

can own music be used with laura talking over the top?

[Messenger Graduate]

Hi, Hope you and Laura are going well. I've always used my own music just start off my running playlist and then start Laura and it works perfectly. This is with iPhone/ iTunes. There's sometimes a problem if I don't start the music first.

[betcha1982 in reply to Messenger]

ive got samsung phone so dont get itunes. I dont mind lauras music but just fancied using my own to see how I get on.

[ZoomZoom Graduate]

Yes. I actually use my spotify app and have Laura talking in the background.

Although I have to say I found the c25k app seems (for me) to stop running as soon as the 20+ running blocks start. Because I also use map my run (so run 3 apps simultaneously) I am able to gauge when to stop though.

[chrishart63]

When I started off I downloaded a podcast 5kto101, by mistake and was not to week 4 that realised that I was using the wrong one, the guy was American and he was saying there is a podcast were you can add your own music, no doubt you may be charged. In fact I preferred his podcast to Laura's but do not tell her.

[GoogleMe Graduate]

I can see that part of the 'shared experience' that NHS C25K used to be will soon be a thing of the past. I found the idea of graduating so that I could listen to my own music was a motivation, as was keeping going sometimes so that I didn't have to repeat a session which had a track I didn't care for.

Just a thought!

[IannodaTruffe Mentor]

I may be wrong, betcha, but I think you are talking podcasts rather than apps. If you download the C25k app, you can play your own music and Laura will speak over it, but with the podcast you have just have the C25k music and Laura. As Googleme says, us old timers don't consider you to have really completed C25k if you haven't suffered "Julie" on the later podcasts. But then again, why should you worry about what we think.

Keep running, keep smiling.

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Try naked running! Not running in the buff, but with no music or any such distractions. I just listen to the birds and river and just use my watch if I do want to time anything.

Give naked running a go and see how you like it.