For those of you who have never heard of Moab, Utah, it is the mountain biking capital of the world...at least according to many biking enthusiasts. Well, it's also a great place for running. Red rock cliffs surround the town and a beautiful trail (Mill Creek Parkway) runs right through it. (It's not really a parkway but it is partially paved.)
Even in this beautiful setting, the traffic on weekday mornings can produce irritating fumes...a big turn off for me. I need to run about 1/10 of a mile to get to the trail, but once there, the fumes are gone...or at least unnoticable.
Today I ran my typical circuit while listening to my new jogSet (Bob's jogSet Jazz 2). (For details about the jogSet, run on over to www.jogtunes.com.) Rylee, one of our 2 dogs, needed the usual coaxing to get him to run near a house along my jogging route where an unleashed dog occasionally runs out to the trail.
The obvious drawback to running with a dog is the need to stop for sniffing and other essentials. Jogging "in place" will keep your pulse up fairly well but not perfectly, and cleaning up after him slows you down considerably. These annoyances are usually completed by the halfway point and the run back home is usually free of hesitations. Of course, the return must be along the same trail so that the dog recalls all of the sniff points and doesn't continue this stop-and-go deal.
After arriving at home, I set my iPod to a podcast (I usually listen to Adam Curry's Daily Source Code), and I set out for short run with our other dog, a six-month-old Cairn terrier. She's learning to heel...kind of...but most of the time she's tugging.
This is the associated blog for JogTunes.com, a song, playlist, and podcast resource for runners, indoor cyclists, and other fitness enthusiasts who like to work out to the beat of their music.
2 comments:
Thank you Anna for your kind comment. I checked out your blog and really enjoyed your writing and photos.
I've thought about tunes to match the pace of biking but there is some risk to wearing a headset while biking so I decided to hold off on that idea.
Keep up the great blog.
I've come across the Siemens device that varies music tempos based on jogging pace but I haven't heard about the intelligent iPod device. Please post any references you may have. Here's the link to the Siemen's article: Siemen's device.
Bob
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