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