What do you do?

[Pedal Wench]

I always have a song in my heart though.

Love that!

I ride with music about 50% of the time. Never in a group or when riding with friends, and not usually on my intown rides. I was doing a long, lonely hill training ride, realized I left my player at home and almost turned around to get it. But, on that ride, on the descents in particular, I almost got my descending mojo back. Part of it was singing out loud. The Glee version of "Total Eclipse of the Heart" just had me carving turns like never before.

[marni]

ah bless the "mind worms" of songs that wander through my mind when I ride. I talk out loud to myself, the animals, mutter at the drivers, and then I make up songs about the ride and alternate them with Queens' Bicycle race, and some mental mozart masses that I only know a few words to, or just think my thoughts, watch the road and listen to the birds. I do however often ride with an earbud in my bra if I am doing intervals or really pushing for speed and or distance but that is because I ride solo 99.9% of the time.

Incidentally, for those who haven't yet discovered them yet there is a podcast called "Podrunner" which does a whole series of podcasts featuring tempo runds at different speedds, plus a series of training podcasts for 5,8 and 20 K training with gradually building tempos. These are great for intervals on the bike.

marni