You guys! Thanks to the miracle that is the internet, I actually contributed something cool to my early morning cycling class today! The back story: in January I signed up to run my first half marathon with some friends. Started training in February. In March, I had to take my training to the bike because my ankles were staging a mutiny. So instead of a long run every weekend, I did a 1.5-2-hour bike ride. To make it work, I googled for some cycling workouts, preferable with a playlist to go with. I found one called Ridin Dirty with a Spotify list I could copy. That got me through several weeks of workouts, until tendinitis took me out of the marathon altogether. Fast forward to today: our cycling class instructor switched phones from apple, which means they shut down her iCloud which means her iPod is all screwed up. But she didnt find that out until this morning when she tried to start it up for class. We were all peddling away furiously, trying to warm up, when she said, Does anyone have an iPod with music I can borrow for todays class? Someone else volunteered their phone, but it wouldnt connect. So I opened Spotify, pulled up the Ridin Dirty playlist, and handed it to her. It was fun to ride with a whole group, and the list had something for everyone: Christina Aguilera, Foreigner, Jason Derulo, Black-Eyed Peas, Taio Cruz, Maroon 5, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Joan Jett, and Steely Dan. For once, I had some cool music.
Posted on: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 11:04:47 +0000