Song(s) spinning in your spirit while cycling

[shootingstar]

I'm nearly embarrassed that now when I bike, a song spins in my head that played for a Canadian insurance company tv commercial. Then dopey, me discovered it, it was from Vancouverite Sarah McLaughlin:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Urv7tyeJ7qE Originally for a children's book adapted from "Charlotte's Web'.

When it gets difficult on the bike, it's easier on me ..to relax just abit and have a song in my cycling head/heart that lifts me up and over and beyond ahead.

Just being on the bike is a miracle...not everyone can do it. I learned my lesson when I had a dizzy spell several years ago. When 10 years before returning to cycling at 31, I worked for several years in rehabiliation hospital for spinal cord injured patients.

It..is...a ....miracle...the sun shining as the wheels spin beneath you.

ORDINARY MIRACLE

It's not that unusual
When everything is beautiful
It's just another
Ordinary miracle today

The sky knows when it's time to snow
Don't need to teach a seed to grow
It's just another
Ordinary miracle today

Life is like a gift, they say
Wrapped up for you everyday
Open up, and find a way
To give some of your own

Isn't it remarkable?
Like everytime a raindrop falls
It's just another
Ordinary miracle today

The birds in winter have their fling
And always make it back by spring
It's just another
Ordinary miracle today

When you wake up everyday
Please don't throw your dreams away
Hold them close to your heart
'Cause we are all a part

Of the ordinary miracle

Ordinary miracle

Do you want to see a miracle

It seems so exceptional
That things work out after all
It's just another
Ordinary miracle today

The sun comes out and shines so bright
And disappears again at night
It's just another
Ordinary miracle today

It's just another
Ordinary miracle today

[KnottedYet]

Thank you for the link. Sweet song, now it's stuck in my head!

this is my favorite Sarah Maclachlan song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akjHwk9ur2Q But, umm, I don't think of my bike when I hear it...

[crazybikinchic]

I find that any song can creep into my head while cycling. There is never any rhyme or reason for what enters, it just does. This summer when training for the HHH, I would belt out "I feel good". Sometimes, they are church songs, sometimes not. This summer I also sang "Let it Snow" (Texas, 100+ weather). I was relieved when someone joined our paceline at the HHH that also had no problems belting out songs. The funny thing is that the others would join in whatever I sang.

[Zen]

I went through a period this summer when the Mexican Hat Dance song would play in my head. Not the "da-da da-da da-da" first part but the more musical second part. Go figure.

[Chile Pepper]

When climbing, it's often the final movement of Beethoven's fifth symphony--very triumphal. When I'm trying to keep my speed up, it might be Elvis Costello's Pump It Up (which can be frustrating, because those are the only words I know to the song--I'm so lame when it comes to popular music) or PJ Harvey's Victory (I christen her victory, she'll make it).

[luv'nAustin]

This summer we rode out in the country and I had the song, Take the Long Way by the Dixie Chicks stuck in my head. Of course I can't always remember the correct words but it is never a problem because I like to change them to match what I'm seeing or feeling at the time.

[Tuckervill]

I sing and whistle at all kinds of random times when I'm working out or cycling. I try to catch myself when I'm in a class, because I know it can annoy other people. Whistling helps me keep my heart and breathing steady for some reason. It always just feels so good when I do it, there must be some benefit I get.

Karen

[Pedal Wench]

That song is used in a current CVS commercial, but sung by Cathy Fisher, the woman with the haunting voice from that gorgeous Lance/Nike commercial. I think I like her version even more:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HL3qjYrB8CQ

(Nike Ad that first got me hooked on her voice)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=a6F5xNtv86k

[mimitabby]

Sousa marches when i'm in a hurry, waltzes when I'm not. and for my triumphant music, it's the sweet part of the William Tell overture

[Velobambina]

The Ramones, of course. "I wanna be sedated" or "Sheena is a punk rocker." If there's a kid misbehaving anywhere in the vicinity, "Beat on the brat."

[RoadRaven]

Well, yesterday while doing my intervals it was the Muppets...

ma-na-ma-na
be-be-be-debe...
ma-na-ma-na
be-be-be-be
ma-na-ma-na
be-be-be-debe... be-debe... be-debe... be-be be-be be-be-be...

[Melalvai]

Well, yesterday while doing my intervals it was the Muppets...
ma-na-ma-na

That's so funny. Last time my daughter & I biked to school, we were taking turns singing "ma na na na" and "doo doo, do do doo". We just couldn't stop. We'd finish it, and there'd be a moment of silent pedalling, and one or the other of us would bust out with another "ma na na na" which the other could not help following up with a "doo doo, do do doo". It was like we were possessed. Possessed by muppets.

[Velobambina]

I went through a period this summer when the Mexican Hat Dance song would play in my head. Not the "da-da da-da da-da" first part but the more musical second part. Go figure.

Zen--with that accordian in your Avatar, I thought you'd be grooving to Frankie Yankovich! Pennsylvania Polka! Beer Barrell Polka!!