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Wow, have we been enjoying the new Free Motion bikes at our club! Lately, the first 20 minute stage of our ride has been a long flat stage, building throughout to see what kind of watts we can generate. Then, a nice recovery before doing the same 20 minute stage, but on a long climb- allowing us to compare watts generated between the two stages. The Friday Favorite today is the “nice recovery” piece in between the flat and climb stages. Enigma’s “In the Shadow, In the Light”, from their Voyageur CD, is a beautiful 5:35, 80 rpm piece that allows riders to recover and prepare for the next challenge ahead.
It's not from Enigma, but a track named Enigma – Paradox which was so beautiful I just had to use it as the free track for this week. Wouldn't this make a wonderful cool-down [wlm_firstname]?
If you have had the privilege of working with Barbara Hoots you understand there's no “half-way” with anything she does. Barbara is only interested in perfection and lives by the adage: Go big or Go Home. So the new Top Indoor Cycling Songs from 2011 list is approaching 400 tracks!
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Even if you don't use Spotify to deliver you class music, I strongly suggest getting a free Spotify subscription. You simply can't beat Spotify for sampling and discovering new tracks + unlike iTunes, Spotify let's you play the entire song so you can fully understand if each track is exactly what you need for that perfect playlist 🙂
* Complete as in every song on the list that is also available in Spotify.
Where have I been? Why didn't I know about this artist? I was talking to a friend today and she told me that she was on-line last night trying to get tickets for this concert. It was nearly impossible!!! OK, I'll bite. Who is this band that sells out almost immediately? It's Florence + The Machine and I'm kicking myself why I didn't know about them before now. What The Water Gave Me is their longest track – And I'm always looking for 4:00+ tracks so this is perfect! 🙂
A two-person song, with a two-person perspective for today with some meaningful lyrics to boot! This 65 rpm climb has beautiful instrumentals and harmonies that build, with call outs at 1:38 and 3:00. These two cue spots are a perfect time to have your class add load, but hold cadence at 65 rpms. Now that we FINALLY have power at our club, my class can see whether or not they really do hold cadence steady after adding more load.
Woulter “Wally” De Backer, professionally known as Gotye, wrote this gorgeous song, “Somebody That I Used To Know”, featuring Kimbra. It is from his Making Mirrors album and has had over 57 million You Tube views, so a few others like it as well. Enjoy!
This fabulous artist can not only sing, play guitar and drums, but she is also quite a little athlete. She runs 6 miles a day and is a marathoner. Today’s 4:17, 86 bpm flat road has an ethereal 15 seconds before a hard beat kicks in. There are great nuances to work with throughout the song. It would be ideal to use for the first “road” out, but it’s too good to waste, so you might want to use it later in your ride when everyone is very focused and can enjoy it. Although Britain’s Ellie Goulding is best known for “Lights” (and that is a GREAT tune, 3:32, 61 bpm), featured today is “Salt Skin” from her Lights CD. You may want to check out the entire CD. It’s really good.
Happy weekend everyone. I am so excited to teach on our new FreeMotion bikes Saturday morning! Salt Skin in Spotify
