June 28, 2007 at 9:19 pm
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Thanks Tanya for sending me this rather fine collection of legs to choose from in case my own shoddy examples aren’t on form for this Sundays British 10k. So far I haven’t resorted to leg transplantation as I have other options…
No Wetsuit Girl has recommended EPO which seems to be de-riguer for all us professional affyletes. I’ve been on eBay but all to no avail, EPO is just not that easy to source in a hurry. I’m volunteering at the Tour de France prologue on the 7th July which is bound to be swimming in the stuff, but thats a week too late. Looks like I’m gonna have to be a pure 100% me naturlly slow shuffler for the big day.
I’m not going to give up too easily though as it looks like I may have a little secret weapon….
Typically I would say that music just doesn’t touch me. I’ve spent hours tweaking playlists according to bpm measurements in an attempt to increase my running cadence but I have remained deaf to the beat. Finally though, I seem to have found the genre that speaks my body’s language, on my last run a merengue track popped out of nowhere onto my iPod playlist and my legs went into overdrive. Admittedly it does leave me with a rather odd running style but it has the benefit of a desirably fast leg twitch, I just need to skip the backwards footsteps and I’ll be winning.
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jogblog wrote @ June 28th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
EPO? Merengue? I haven’t a clue what you’re talking about, I must be seriously out of touch. 
I bet Joggerblogger and his local GP are experts on merengue - I’ll let him educate you.
Vanilla wrote @ June 28th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
I too am tone deaf to the bpm, perhaps I’ll have to load a little merengue into my iPod.
Roads wrote @ June 29th, 2007 at 12:29 am
Gosh - how do you volunteer (for the Tour de France, I mean).
I’d like to do that.
XFR Bear wrote @ June 29th, 2007 at 10:41 am
Merengue is sorta a simpler form of salsa - kinda
EPO were a seventies style classical rock band from Brum with hits such as “Mr Blue Sky” and stuff 
Go WW - good luck on Sunday
That explains why I could get EPO in cd form from eBay then, I was expecting tablet or needle form myself. Mind you, if it’s anything like Merengue perhaps the cd would work better.
Rach wrote @ June 29th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
EPO - Evening Primrose Oil. Sell it at Boots on the Vitamins display! Don’t know if its the same stuff your on about as EPO is generally taken for hormonal changes, ie menopause etc.
Damn, I’ve never looked for it, but I thought that EPO was everywhere. I’m totally bpm-deaf too, but here are some of my songs that get me to pick it up only because they put me in a good mood and make me want to smile and move my feet at the same time (that is, if you have like a bajillion pounds to spend on iTunes and have exactly the same taste as me):
Vicinity of Obscenity (System of a Down)
Creap on In (Norah Jones)
All Jacked Up (Grechen Wilson)
Black Tornado (Melissa Ferrick)
Blister in the Sun (Violent Femmes)
Broken Face (Pixies)
Can’t Let Go (Lucinda Williams)
Uh-Merica (Regina Spektor)
and Extraordinary Machine (Fiona Apple) more for the words than the beat
I hope that at least one of these amplifies your playlist!
XFR Bear wrote @ June 29th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
oops - evening primrose oil - thought you were after that blood doping stuff that Paual RAdcliffe was protestign about!
Does seem a bit OTT for a Race for Life stylee thing though!
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