I went to the gym for the first time in over a week today. It was glorious. Just being there was wonderful and my workout was great with the exception of my iPod.
You know what helps my gym motivation? Music. I can easily run a 5k distance but without great music it isn’t likely that I’ll hit the 5k mark, I just lose interest. So besides my running shoes, water bottle and towel I need my iPod. Need.It.
The only problem is that my iPod is a Shuffle from circa 2005, which makes it a senior citizen in the world of mp3 players.
I have nothing against senior citizens but my little Shuffle is barely cutting it. You see, Shuffles don’t have play lists. They don’t have gigabytes upon gigabytes of space to hold music and they only play straight through the music you have loaded on it or they play random selections.
This is trouble when you are running and you know you are about to hit “the wall” and you need THE perfect song to help you push through it and keep going.”The wall” can happen to anyone. It just pops right up in front of you all you feel like you can’t/don’t want to keep going when really you can and probably do want to keep going. So random songs, and not knowing when and where you will finally come across the perfect song is obviously not conducive to pushing myself harder, further, faster, longer.
This is where a Nano comes in handy.
I don’t have one though. I want some play lists people. I want to pick music to match my mood and motivate me at the gym. I am so tired of one size fits all music for the gym.
I want to be able to get to my current favorite wall buster song (or my other favorite, or my other favorite, or my other favorite, or my other favorite, or my other favorite)* in a flash, instead of the 10 minutes of searching it took me today, by then it was frustration in my iPod that was making me want to stop running and find something else to do and not the running itself.
Now I just need to figure out a way to talk Luke into letting me upgrade my iPod.
Oh, who am I kidding it isn’t Luke I have to talk into it, it’s me. Because what mom doesn’t daydream about spending money on herself only to completely chicken out when she has the cash in hand.
*I like a big variety of music as is easily seen in the above links. See, I totally need playlists right?
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I have a sansa clip, its small, it stores plenty of music and you can use any program not just itunes and the GREATEST thing is, IT IS WAY CHEAPER THAN AN IPOD!! Oh and I know you love lists, well you can record your notes on this thing to.
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I have a Sansa Clip, its small, you can use programs other than itunes, its way cheaper then and IPOD and you can record your lists on it !
My iPod is so old that it's huge. It's like as big as my cell phone. My 13 yr old makes fun of it and calls it an iPod Maxi.
So after spending 3 years sat in my underwear drawer unused my ipod nano died. Literally. But now I really wanted it so hubby tried to solder in new battery and screwed it up so he INSISTED i go out and buy myself the newest nano and now i am a nano geek. I actually found myself telling hubby of all the amazing thing my ipod can do (as if he didn't know already) I love the radio and i love my play lists mainly provided by my music loving teenage son. It also has a pedometer, not the most accurate but fun and you can take movies and notes. This one hopefully will die of over use. My list= Passion Pit, Yeah Yeah's, Muse, Kasabian, Lady Gaga, Pink, Katy Perry and Kings of Leon.
Everyday Mom- I'll have to check that out, I do love lists. 😉
Jayme- You crack me up!
Blissmum- I LOVE Muse. (and Kings of Leon, but you already knew that.)
I have the sansa too. I really like it. You can get them with different amounts of storage, I wish mine was bigger. Oh well 🙂
What are the best brands of pedometer on the market?,”;
i always use my pedometer whenever i go out for jogging.;:’
i alway use our stock pedometer when i am jogging from home to our local park;-.
digital pedometers are very accurate compared to those old designs which are mechanical based or something.`~