Welcome to Podrunner. I'm Steve Boyette and coming up is over an hour of strong motivation for your workout at 171 beats per minute called

running mate. It's called that because well that's what Podrunner is and also

because this is a particularly crazy election year here in America, and it just seemed appropriate.

And that's about as political as Podrunner ever gets, and aren't we happier for that?

It's also a jumpstart mix, which means that it starts off with what

would normally be a peak-time track to give you a jolt that'll help get you

going. Then it backs off and starts ramping up the energy over the hour.

About halfway in you'll feel it starting to kick into high gear

and you will definitely feel the Side Trans Peak section.

Podrunner's mission in life is to regulate your pace, because when you expend your energy evenly throughout your workout, you work out longer,

which means you're increasing distance and endurance.

Because the non-stop beat is vital to enabling this,

there's never anything like a commercial or any other distraction in the mix

to steal focus or take away from the forward motion of your workout. I talk for two minutes at the

beginning and then after I shut up it's just your brain, your body, and the music. Without

sponsors or ads, the only way that Podrunner can do this is with your help.

Listener contributions pay for the gear, software, work, and time that it takes to produce these mixes and keep them available for you

whenever you need them wherever you want them. So if Podrunner is making your

workout more efficient or even just more fun, consider visiting the donate page at podrunner.com to make a

one-time or small monthly contribution and thank you for your support. Right now

though you and podrunner are about to be running mates for the next hour or so at 171 BPM.

Have a fantastic workout. Have fun and keep going. You're going to Oh, yeah. Oh, well.

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