Running Songs, songs for while jogging

I am as of now convinced that running songs, songs sung in our heads or actually out loud while we are jogging, improve performance, help one to get the most out of oneself.

Running songs: provide rhythm to the number of paces per minute rate; help to serve to increases the number of paces per minute rate; remind the runner of the importance of a high number of paces per minute; help to serve to increase the distance moved forward per pace; remind the runner of the importance of a high rate of distance forwards per pace; take the mind off of pains, discomforts, and inertial lazy feelings; and, in a somewhat hypnotic manner help the runner to believe that he is able to attain to a high level in terms of number of paces per minute and distance forwards per pace.

I've heard that when the American blacks were slaves they sang songs while working which helped them to get through the work with a minimum of mental and physical fatigue. I suppose similar cases exist throughout the world. American blacks, now free, are big successes in the world of sports in America.

The jogging song that was my first jogging song, the jogging song I used yesterday and today, was:

High and long we step, heads high in the wind;
many times a minute we step, champions of glory road

I realized that this first jogging song, sounded corny, sort of like goose-stepping Hitler youth of a type; the melody for it that came up naturally in my mind sounded like a corny inferior sibling of Rogers and Hammerstein musical on the stage type lyrics.

I also realized that this first jogging song is useful if what you are into is stepping high when jogging, and if what you are into is holding your head high to the wind while jogging; however generally speaking, stepping high with the foot and holding the head high to the wind are inefficient and slow you down IMHO.

When I first came up with the first version of the running song I was enamored of thinking of myself while running as like a champion athlete triumphantly and joyously running on the best road for jogging out of all the roads that run alongside a beach anywhere in the world.

I had to revise the jogging song. The version I first came up with this evening:

Far and quick we step, streamlining the wind
Many long paces a minute we step, glory road kings.

'Improvements'(?) that came to mind this evening:

1

Far and quick we're stepping, streamlining the wind
Many long paces a minute we step, glory road kings.

2

Far and quick we're stepping, streamlining the wind
Many long paces a minute we're stepping, glory road kings.

3

Far and quick we're stepping, streamlining the wind
Many long paces a minute we're stepping, glory road kings.

4

Far and quick we're stepping, streamlining the wind
Our steps per minute rate is high, we're glory road kings.

5

Far and quick we're stepping, streamlining the sky
Our steps per minute rate is high, we're glory road kings

6

Far and quick we're stepping, streamlining the sky
Our steps per minute rate is high, we're glory road kings

7

Long are our strides as we streamline the sky
Many are our steps per unit of time,
Ruler of Roads of magnificence, am I


Scrap Notes re the rhyming and choice of words:

Champions of the Roads of Splendor we fly by.
Rulers of Roads of magnificence we fly by
highway
splendor
honor
majesty
eminence and renown
magnificence
stride
Many our steps each per unit of time,

I aver that I came out well in the end, version 7, which took me the longest to come up with, has a haunting Vedic like beauty to it, and is a big improvement over the six previous versions. The computer-like sports-coach-like scientist within me notes that the fact version 7 not version 11 or version 5, was finally far superior to previous versions, is notable. When it takes seven versions to get to excellence in a stanza, well that's alot of work for a poem, but seems this time it was worth it.


@2008 David Virgil Hobbs