Runners or Biker - MP3??

[rangerman2003]

so whats on your mp3 players while you excercise.

[MsgMills]

Don't have one, but the wife is wanting one. So I'll get her one for our 15th wedding Anniversary on the 29th. She wants to load it up with her Romance Novels and Books she reads. Said another co-worker, goes to the Library and gets the Tapes and then loads them on his PC, then puts them on the MP3 player.

Is it very hard to understand how to put stuff on the PC then transfer it to the MP3 Player? I'd sure like to surprise the wife by having a few books already loaded on it for her...

Thanks Fella's

[B.G.O. of Kentucky]

My wife and I both have Ipod Mini's. Love em. The new ones are better because they work off of flash memory versus hard drives, less chance for failure. Never have had a problem with mine, I have an arm band that holds it that helps out too.

[Art]

I have one of the very first U2 edition Ipods and I just bought a new 30 gig IPod last week because the older one has a short in it. I would guess I have 3000 songs or so on them, and I have not even touched the memory capacity. I bought one of those Bose docking stations and I use it all the time. If you have a computer and you are a music lover, the IPod is the best money you can spend.

[corndogggy]

Depends on what I'm actually doing, but some of my favorites:

"Soweto", by Hieroglyphics - best workout song ever

"Cuban Girls", by the Black Eyed Peas.

"John Deer Green" by Joe Diffy (crank it up loud :D )

"indian outlaw" by Tim McGraw.

"The Enemy", by Godsmack

"The Distance" by Cake - best racing song ever

"Lie in our Graves" by Dave Matthews Band

the Quake game sountrack by the Nine Inch Nails - all metal instrumental with recurring beats and riffs

Whiskey in the jar, by Metallica

FUEL - Metallica

99 problems, by Jay-Z and Linkin Park

Jerusalem, by Matisyahu (the second remix on that album at the end of the record that says "out of darkness comes light", the first one sucks)

Possum Kingdom, by the Toadies

Bittersweet, and "please don't tell her I love her", by Big Head Todd and the Monsters

Green Day - Jesus of Suburbia

Emenim - Kill You (I like angry music before a race :) )

Refused - New Noise (most of it at least, it's kinda crazy... it's the soundtrack to Friday Night Lights, right before the final game, makes you want to beat the snot out of somebody)

various other songs by Godsmack, Metallica, Black Eyed Peas, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Green Day

[nwest]

Depends on what I'm actually doing, but some of my favorites:

"Soweto", by Hieroglyphics - best workout song ever

"Cuban Girls", by the Black Eyed Peas.

"John Deer Green" by Joe Diffy (crank it up loud :D )

"indian outlaw" by Tim McGraw.

"The Enemy", by Godsmack

"The Distance" by Cake - best racing song ever

"Lie in our Graves" by Dave Matthews Band

the Quake game sountrack by the Nine Inch Nails - all metal instrumental with recurring beats and riffs

Whiskey in the jar, by Metallica

FUEL - Metallica

99 problems, by Jay-Z and Linkin Park

Jerusalem, by Matisyahu (the second remix on that album at the end of the record that says "out of darkness comes light", the first one sucks)

Possum Kingdom, by the Toadies

Bittersweet, and "please don't tell her I love her", by Big Head Todd and the Monsters

Green Day - Jesus of Suburbia

Emenim - Kill You (I like angry music before a race :) )

Refused - New Noise (most of it at least, it's kinda crazy... it's the soundtrack to Friday Night Lights, right before the final game, makes you want to beat the snot out of somebody)

various other songs by Godsmack, Metallica, Black Eyed Peas, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Green Day

Got good taste there corndoggy, but no Korn? Chutes and Ladders pumps me up every time, the bagpipies melting in with Korn's famous basssline awesome.
BTW I don't run unless something big is chasing me but the I pod has made mowing the yard a little more fun:D

[corndogggy]

Got good taste there corndoggy, but no Korn? Chutes and Ladders pumps me up every time, the bagpipies melting in with Korn's famous basssline awesome.
BTW I don't run unless something big is chasing me but the I pod has made mowing the yard a little more fun:D

It's strange, I actually really like Korn's music, but I don't like the lead singer much on most of their songs. I like "Falling Away from me", and a few others, but most of the time I just wish the lead singer would shut up. I don't like the lyrics or the way he sings most of the time.

Also, forgot to mention DISTURBED. Good weight lifting music. Some old RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE is good as well.

[Art]

I thought Korn was really cool about the time they came out. It was a fresh sound at that time. It got copied and overplayed in a hurry. I have some Korn on my IPod but I don't ever really pull it up. The vocal styles are strange on a lot of the stuff and the basic beat and rhythm is so similar on many songs, it just gets old to me after a song or two.

[corndogggy]

so whats on your mp3 players while you excercise.

Do you not want to share your picks? Am I the only one here that exercises? :)

[rangerman2003]

ya i was planing to just wanted to see all yours first..

I have a few military cadences

Click Click Boom - saliva

Forgot About Dre - Dre

Mud On The Tires - Brad Paisley

Never Leave Harlan Alive - Brad Paisley (gotta support Harlan, my fiance is from there)

more etc country

Korn, disturbed, LP.

i have a wide range

[F250Stroke]

I ride a road bike a lot but dont listen to music while Im riding,I like to hear the cars coming behind me. However on the old Ipod I have everything from Akon to ZZ Top.Charlie Daniels to 50 cent.If I were going to listen while riding I guess I would have to listen to Molly Hatchet and Flirtin With Disaster.Truthfully the Ipod is my sons,that is the reason for the Akon and 50 cent and all that other stuff.

[corndogggy]

Mud On The Tires - Brad Paisley

Yeah I've got that one, I listen to it when I go trail running. I've got that one, John Deer Green, Indian Outlaw, Don't ask me how I know, and other country songs like that for trail running. I don't like the crazy stuff when trail running for some reason.

[corndogggy]

I ride a road bike a lot but dont listen to music while Im riding,I like to hear the cars coming behind me.

I couldn't ever hear them anyway, the wind in my ears was so loud that I could only hear them if I tilted my head sideways.

Actually, my MP3 player of choice for exercising isn't an IPOD, it's my phone. I have a Sony Ericson W810i or something like that, and it has a speaker built in, so I don't need headphones. So I just load up the memory card with mp3's, clip my phone to the top of my shorts, and take off. That way I can hear everything around me and also the music. Usually I'm mountain biking alone or trail running alone and need to carry a phone anyway so this also saves me from carrying extra equipment.

[ceohunter]

I have an iPhone but just with the same thing in mind but just can't bring myself to run with such an expesive phone.

I have everything. Running 40 - 50 miles a week I am getting sick of everything. I am going to have to check out some of these.

[nwest]

It's strange, I actually really like Korn's music, but I don't like the lead singer much on most of their songs. I like "Falling Away from me", and a few others, but most of the time I just wish the lead singer would shut up. I don't like the lyrics or the way he sings most of the time.

Also, forgot to mention DISTURBED. Good weight lifting music. Some old RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE is good as well.

Davis can have an annoying voice. Fieldy is awesome! I love the bass line in their music.
As far as the old rage what do you think of Audioslave?

Disturbed is just that, loud and fast.

Almost forgot Tool, if they hadn't played them on the Fox every other song for 5 years they would have made the list.

Tool, Metallica, Pearl Jam and Zepplin was all they played for years.

[MsgMills]

OK Dudes,

I bought my wife one of the Zen's ( MP3 Player ), I have read the book about 5 times and loaded everything I can find that came with the gizmo. I loaded two audio books and put them in a folder on the Desktop and also are loaded in My Documents folder. Thing is I can't figure out how to transfer the Books to the player. I found the transfer button, but when I click on the folder on the desktop and then hit transfer, it goes through the motions and says that zero files were transferred....

Taking everything back to Best Buy so they can teach me MP3 Player 101, basic loading and transferring files program. :confused::eek::(

[corndogggy]

Thing is I can't figure out how to transfer the Books to the player.

Assuming your MP3 player has a USB cable, the easiest thing to do is to just plug it into the port on your computer, then go to "My Computer", and usually the player will show up as if it's a removable drive... open this folder and find where the MP3's should go, then just copy the files off of your computer into this folder.

Sometimes software such as RealPlayer makes you make a playlist, then you transfer/sync your playlist.

[PhilpotHunter]

Right now I am on a 2 month hiatus from running to heal my shin splints (trainers orders:() so I do alot of speed walking. Since I'm not being intense like running, I listen to Dave Ramsey podcasts while I walk.

When I bike and run, these are a few from my play list:

Bon Jovi
Allison Krauss
Boston
Deep Purple
CCR
Eye of the Tiger (any self respecting runner should have this song)
Garth
James Lidell
Johny Cash
NIN (good angry music) mr. self destruct
Queen
Europes the final countdown
Cake-The distance
Tim McGraw

And ofcourse, a whole CD worth of Marine Corp cadence. I just hit shuffle and go to town. The good thing about running in the country is if a cadence comes on, you can sing along and not get weird looks like you do at the park:D

[corndogggy]

Right now I am on a 2 month hiatus from running to heal my shin splints (trainers orders:() so I do alot of speed walking

For whatever it's worth, I had shin splints not too long ago, and taking more time off did nothing but make it worse. I have been getting incredibly fatigued during the day, so I thought I'd take a little time off. When I started back up, I had a real hard time. My wife and others thought that maybe my shoes were getting worn out and that I was just stressed. So, I ordered some new Asics Gel Nimbus and proceeded to take another 2 weeks off. First run on my new shoes was horrible. I made it half a mile and had horrible shin splints. I was ready to send them back. I waited a couple of days, then ran again with my trail runners. Same thing, horrible shin splints. I had basically taken about a month off for the most part, and I felt worse than ever. The only thing that got me going again is to just say "to hell with time off" then start running every day, and progressively going a little further every time. I'm just now at the point where I can run my 3.5 mile loop again without any pain.

At least in my opinion, shin splints normally aren't something that would require "healing". Most of the time it isn't an injury. If you can start up and IMMEDIATELY have shin splints from nearly the first stride, then yeah, but if you can run for a minute then the shin splints sets in, it's not an injury that requires healing.

Shin splints are usually caused by bad form. At least with me, if I get out of practice, my form gets worse, and my shin splints gets worse. Shin splints are caused by slamming your heel against the ground, then the muscles in your shins have to contract like crazy to slow down your foot. This shock is what shin splints are. Sometimes it's so bad that it affects the bone where the tendons attach to, which may be what he's trying to heal, but if you continue to have bad form when you start back up, it's not going to go away.

The things that cause it the most are bouncing too much (not being smooth), being too overweight, taking strides that are too long (actually this is the #1 cause), wrong shoe choice (not matched to your pronation rate), and maybe other things.

At least in my opinion, if you are well enough to speed walk for a long time, then there is nothing keeping you from running. If something truly needs to heal, then you probably shouldn't be speed walking. Your form is most likely your problem, not that something is injured bad enough that you have to take 2 months off, especially given the fact that you can speed walk just fine.

What helped me get over it is to simply slow down, concentrate on being smooth, take much smaller strides, try to land on the middle of your foot and not the heel with your toe way up in the air, and things like that. If you do feel them start to come on, try to relax as much as possible and slow down even more. Once I did this, I could go faster and further with every run. I can now run 2 miles in 15 minutes, and my shins aren't holding me back, only the conditioning that I lost during my time off.

[PhilpotHunter]

My shins don't hurt while I run. What it does is after I'm done they start hurting, and they will hurt BAD for a couple days, and be tender to the touch for a week or more.