Thursday, 2 August 2007   Posted by speedygeoff on Thursday,
August 02, 2007 with 1 comment You might want to gradually
increase the tempo of your running towards three steps per
second, or towards your personal optimum, over time. This post
should help you in a couple of ways.  Firstly, do you want to
check the pace of your music and decide which songs to load to
your iPod/MP3 player? Here is a much easier way than using a
metronome!  The MixMeister BPM analyser is available from, and
it’s free to download, doesn’t take long either. It analyses
songs and tells you how many BPM each song is.  A sample:  In
this example, Snow Patrol’s “Final Straw” album, the track “How
To Be Dead” (actually track 1), at two steps per beat, is almost
exactly pace I recommended here! And the guitar plays at double
time anyway, 182. “How To Be Dead” is actually track 1. (The
order above is different because I rename the tracks to play
them in my preferred order). I am out of breath just listening
to it!  If your current rate is