My own playlist

[DeliaItaly]

As I am nearing the longer runs I would like to make my own playlist -- no offence Laura but we don't have quite the same taste in music

a) Any suggestions? Do I just record whatever I like or is there a certain genre that makes us run better (hahaha);

b) How do I record Laura's voice over my music?

Thanks everyone, D.

[doggymum Graduate]

I don't think you can get Lauras voice over your own music. If you are a bit of a whizz you might be able to chop the 5min warm up/cool down bits in though!

I would just do a playlist of what you think you might like to run to and go from there. I put quite a few on mine and have found that I skip over some as they aren't quite my pace or I've gone off the song!

jog.fm is a good site to get ideas for songs from if you know your bpm running pace.

I had to ditch Laura in week 7, one podcast was enough for me. Also listened to one week 8 but none of week 9 ~ sorry Laura!

[DeliaItaly Graduate in reply to doggymum]

Thanks doggymum - I'll look into jog.fm but don't know my bpm running pace though. Gosh I feel stupid!

[swanscot Graduate in reply to DeliaItaly]

The front page of jog.fm will calculate this from your known pace.

[swanscot Graduate]

As doggymum says, jog.fm is one site that suggest tunes with the appropriate beats per minutes for your pace. Just enter your pace as mins/km or min/mile and jog.fm tells you the bpm.

I listened to Laura on the five minutes warm up on my first run of week 7, then just switched to my own tunes on the mp3 player. I've not created a playlist as such but am using a random shuffle of songs from a 'Running Tracks CD. Like doggymum I just skip songs that are not at the right pace for me. I use my watch to time my run.

[notbad Graduate]

I haven't found a way to put Laura's voice over music but used a feeware programme called Audacity to chop the warm up and cool down segments off which I would then put at the start and end of my playlist. For the tracks jog.fm sounds a great idea, I normally just pick what I like but it's a bit trial and error.