As many of us get close to winding down our IM training and begin our taper, what song for you best represents your journey and all the long lonely hours and hard work that got you this far?
Killing Me Softly.
“Animal I have Become” by Three Days Grace
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Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power
Can you feeeeeel it? 
Dierks Bentely - “Long Trip Alone”
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That would be Eric Carmen.
Teenage Wasteland…I still consider myself a teenager at heart.
That would be Eric Carmen.
Woops…I decided to change to a new song since I didnt know the artist
Solitary Man – Neil Diamond.
From family members: “Who are you”, The Who.
From me: “Take the long way home”, Supertramp.
“Are you tough enough?”
The Fabulous Thunderbirds
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Woops…I decided to change to a new song since I didnt know the artist
Well, change it back then, dammit, so my post doesn’t stick out like a sore thumb!
SexyBack – Justin Timberlake
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“Truckin” by the Greatful Dead (for the part “what a long strange trip its been”) - For me very long. Injured out of IMC last year, sick out of IM Austria this year, now on track for IMWA. Definetely “Dazed and Confused” by Led Zeppelin - Need I say more? “Insomnia” by Faithless - I often have trouble sleeping during high training weeks.
“When I’m Gone” 3 Doors Down. Makes me think of my family and my (beginning at) 5am long rides:
“Somewhere in this darkness there’s a light that I can’t find…maybe it’s too far away, or maybe I’m just blind”
“And rolling through this darkness I’m alive but I’m alone. Part of me is fighting this…but part of me is gone”
“Superman” by 5 for Fighting reminds me of what I want my 8 year old to see on Sept 9th:
“I’m just a man in a phony red sheet…looking for special things inside of me.”
No I won’t be wearing a cape
Just a few changes to Pink’s original lyrics…
I’m coming up so you better get this party started
I’m coming up so you better get this party started
Get this party started,
on a saturday morning,
everybody’s waiting for me to arrive
Sending out the message to all of my friends
we’ll be looking flashy on my pink Cervelo
I got lots of style with my pink Saucony shoes
I can go for miles if you know what I mean
I’m coming up so you better get this party started
I’m coming up so you better get this party started
U2: “Where the Streets Have No Name” - it feels like the streets have no name because I sometimes don’t know where I am out there on the Bike.
“Running on Empty” Jackson Brown.
Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd:
Hello.
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone home?
Come on, now.
I hear youre feeling down.
Well I can ease your pain,
Get you on your feet again.
Relax.
I need some information first.
Just the basic facts:
Can you show me where it hurts?
There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ships smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I cant hear what youre sayin.
When I was a child I had a fever.
My hands felt just like two balloons.
Now I got that feeling once again.
I cant explain, you would not understand.
This is not how I am.
I have become comfortably numb.