Running to the Beat
Natalie Costantino: Staff Writer
Issue date: 4/23/09 Section: Lifestyles
Becoming increasingly active outside is often associated with warmer weather, and this trend is becoming more noticeable around Wilmington with its rising temperatures.
People are playing football and volleyball at the beach, running the Wrightsville Beach loop, or just going for a stroll around campus with earphones in their ears.
Chris Lawhorn, the creator of the new Web site, www.RunHundred.com, has attempted to make these activities have a little more rhythm.
RunHundred.com is a site that was created and launched at the end of 2008 while Lawhorn was in Japan. He created the site due to his general interest in finding songs with certain tempos to match a person's workout rhythm.
"In high school, I'd run track and always trained with music. I particularly liked finding songs that would sync exactly so that my feet would hit the ground to the beat," he said.
Lawhorn currently "spins" for Inertia Tours, one of the largest spring break companies in the United States, as a disc jockey. His disc jockey career contributed to the start up of the site as well.
"I got started doing the site because I had a heap of tempo and BPM (beats per minute) information amassed from disc jockeying," Lawhorn said.
To start using the site, you would have access to around 20 songs that you can download for free that range from 116 BPM to 160 BPM. During your next workout, you would see which tempos best match your workout rhythm. Finally, you would go back to RunHundred.com and find new songs with that tempo.
Users can subscribe to RunHundred.com for free by e-mail to receive a notification whenever a new song is posted within your personal range.
"It's just a quick way to organize songs by their speed, so folks can easily find groups of songs with similar tempo[s] once they already know what they like," Lawhorn explained.
Lawhorn is still trying to find a pattern regarding the types of songs people will and will not listen to while exercising. However, while he has been searching for one pattern, he has found another.
He has found that men do not seem to be as interested in the idea as much as women because of their lack of attention to the tempo of a song.
"Women tend to be interested in syncing their pace and music, whereas men don't really pay attention to the tempo," he said.
Even though RunHundred.com may have just gotten up and running, Lawhorn is keeping his Web site up-to-date by posting a new song every day and, hopefully, accomplishing his main goal of giving people an incentive to "stay in shape."
"It's an easy way to find out regularly about new songs that are perfect for their workout speed," Lawhorn said.
People are playing football and volleyball at the beach, running the Wrightsville Beach loop, or just going for a stroll around campus with earphones in their ears.
Chris Lawhorn, the creator of the new Web site, www.RunHundred.com, has attempted to make these activities have a little more rhythm.
RunHundred.com is a site that was created and launched at the end of 2008 while Lawhorn was in Japan. He created the site due to his general interest in finding songs with certain tempos to match a person's workout rhythm.
"In high school, I'd run track and always trained with music. I particularly liked finding songs that would sync exactly so that my feet would hit the ground to the beat," he said.
Lawhorn currently "spins" for Inertia Tours, one of the largest spring break companies in the United States, as a disc jockey. His disc jockey career contributed to the start up of the site as well.
"I got started doing the site because I had a heap of tempo and BPM (beats per minute) information amassed from disc jockeying," Lawhorn said.
To start using the site, you would have access to around 20 songs that you can download for free that range from 116 BPM to 160 BPM. During your next workout, you would see which tempos best match your workout rhythm. Finally, you would go back to RunHundred.com and find new songs with that tempo.
Users can subscribe to RunHundred.com for free by e-mail to receive a notification whenever a new song is posted within your personal range.
"It's just a quick way to organize songs by their speed, so folks can easily find groups of songs with similar tempo[s] once they already know what they like," Lawhorn explained.
Lawhorn is still trying to find a pattern regarding the types of songs people will and will not listen to while exercising. However, while he has been searching for one pattern, he has found another.
He has found that men do not seem to be as interested in the idea as much as women because of their lack of attention to the tempo of a song.
"Women tend to be interested in syncing their pace and music, whereas men don't really pay attention to the tempo," he said.
Even though RunHundred.com may have just gotten up and running, Lawhorn is keeping his Web site up-to-date by posting a new song every day and, hopefully, accomplishing his main goal of giving people an incentive to "stay in shape."
"It's an easy way to find out regularly about new songs that are perfect for their workout speed," Lawhorn said.
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