So some of you are probably going to freak...let me start by saying that I ride through the country, lighted up like a UFO, two rearview mirrors and a helmet. For the past week, two cars have passed me. That said, I've started listening to my Ipod while riding. It started out with some Phillip K Dick novels which would really slow me down (concentrating WAY too much on the text). Today, I threw on some old metal (i.e. G&R, Poison, Motley Crue, Metallica, etc) and older rap (Snoop, Dre, Eminem, BIG, tupac, etc). Now, I've got over 10,000 songs on my computer, so it's bound that I"m going to have a fair amount of this stuff, but I almost never listen to it...unless I'm commuting.

I've discovered a new performance enhancing drug! Riding without music, I'd do 7.1 miles in about 45 minutes just cruising. With Phil, it'd be about 50. This morning? 35 minutes. I know, right?

So, does anyone else listen to music when commuting, and if so, do they listen to stuff other than what they'd typically listen to? I'm usually a classic rock/folksy kinda guy (Simon and Garfunkel is my current Pandora station...)