Help with music - does Laura provide this???

[wine25k]

Help with music....

Just completed W5R2 but am fed up listening to my laboured breathing!!

Someone mentioned Lauras bad taste in music....does she come with music and if so how do I turn it on???

[Slinkyminky Graduate]

Do you have podcasts? If so then I think music is on there.

If you use the App there's a music icon at the bottom which you can listen to your own music while App is on

[roseabi]

Hi! Podcasts are here:

nhs.uk/Livewell/c25k/Pages/...

I have to admit I didn't use them because I found the music too awful

[misswobble Graduate in reply to roseabi]

Too awful!!

You will have missed this then

youtube.com/watch?v=jYSi42v...(Not working as expected?)

The legend of "Julie", so very familiar to millions of C25kers the world over, the massif, the collective, forever bound together in fellowship, truly, by Julie. We'll never get her out of our heads!

I share it with you now, lest any of you have forgot. As if!

[roseabi in reply to misswobble]

I have listened to 'Julie' because I'd heard so much about it...

[90ldfinch Graduate in reply to misswobble]

I couldn't help myself- I knew what was coming and I listened to it again. Curse you misswobble

Indizulu -this is your chance to meet Julie, if you dare.

[MarkyD Graduate in reply to misswobble]

Those running shorts look a bit brief to be comfortable.

[poppypug Graduate in reply to MarkyD]

Yes, I can imagine they must chafe a bit xxx

[GoogleMe Graduate in reply to poppypug]

Taken the whole 'barefoot' thing way too far...

[GoogleMe Graduate]

Yup, the podcasts come with music and are technically the most reliable format.

Some say that the music will have the merit of making listening to your laboured breathing seem refreshing and appealing. I think if you decouple "Music I like" and "Music for the purpose of running and completing C25K" you'll be fine with it... and you can listen to your breathing, birdsong, Beethoven's 5th, Black Sabbath, or Gardener's Question Time when you've graduated.

Me, I feel a bit emotional if I hear the music from Week 1 now because it was such a momentous step ... a teeny weeny bit like my wedding music... (which was Love on a Real Train from Risky Business...)

[wine25k in reply to GoogleMe]

mmm doesn't sound great..thank you anyway

[GoogleMe Graduate in reply to wine25k]

It's not supposed to sound great....you can sit on your couch and listen to great stuff. This is about learning to run.

And making your own playlist is just something else to fiddle about with which isn't actually running...

[Bluebirdrunner Graduate]

The music is all part of the c25k experience. A rite of passage..

Laura says so.. x😊

[wine25k in reply to Bluebirdrunner]

Thankyou will have a word with Laura then!

[yatesco Graduate]

I used the NHS Choices C25K app which was Laura giving voice prompts but is otherwise silent. It works well because you can play your own music and Laura will helpfully mute it when she has something to say.

If I had to listen to 'Julie' I think I would now be graduating from the cycling25k, or more honestly, the 'howManyPiesIn5Minutes' plan.

[wine25k in reply to yatesco]

Ah..so I need to download my own stuff then...have a good few tracks will just have to work out how to do it!!

[MarkyD Graduate]

NHS podcast music is an acquired taste. I liked some of the music, but some of it was not to my taste. One thing that I would say in its favour, though, is it has been well-chosen for tempo during the walking and running sections, and in the early weeks the lyrics are quite motivational. It is the longer runs where the electronic music just goes on relentlessly that I did not enjoy... but repetitive, mindless, vocal-free music is just what you need halfway through your first 25 minute run. One other benefit of the podcasts is that the music and darling Laura's prompts are properly mixed, so you get to hear them both. That's not always the case with the Apps, where sometimes people report the vocal prompts are too quiet.

I'm with GoogleMe : you have the rest of your running career to listen to your own music. You're enjoying the pain of running during C25K, why not endure the pain of the music. It toughens you up

[MarkyD Graduate in reply to MarkyD]

And I found this:

youtu.be/O6b-JGd13Gs(Not working as expected?)

[plop Graduate in reply to MarkyD]

How I hate that tune!!!!

[wine25k in reply to MarkyD]

Sounds bad!...maybe I will try and download my own music!!

[Shireenjoon Graduate]

Ha ha ha this thread has made me chuckle. I actually like the music as its part of my running programme. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't buy or choose to listen to them at any other time but am enjoying listening to them while I run.

[Wil237 Graduate]

Hi I play the radio in the background , when Laura talks the radio either goes off or stays on and the talking goes over it 😎