varied BPM

I'm not a runner. I'm a rock climber who runs occaisionally for fitness--speciifcally cardio, and keeping my body fat low. My understanding is that if you run more than 20 or 30 minutes 3 times a week, you are running for reasons other than fitness. If that is correct, most of the music you find on fitPod, ironically, isn't really geared for fitness running. At any rate, fixed BPM mixes of an hour or more duration are of little use to me. I typically run for about 25 minutes preceeded by walking to warm-up, and followed by walking to cool-down. I can walk to just about any BPM. For my running, I'm finding it helpful to organize my favorite running music into two playlists in iTunes. One list has 120-140 BPM music. The other is for when I kick it into high gear, which for me right now is 160-180 BPM. Sometimes I may start with the something from the slow list for a few minutes, kick it up to the high list, and then back to the slow list at the end. Or I may gradually build faster and faster. If I can ever figure out how to do it, I'll post my two lists later as fitlists. A couple of the Nike iMixes on the iTunes music store are organized in this way--but I haven't sprung for them yet. (In fact, reading the comments posted re the treadmill workout is what originally led me to Steveboy and through him to this site) SteveBoy, if you are listening, I'd love to see some shorter mixes that mix it up, BPM-wise. Hopefully this doesn't all come across as a complaint. I really appreciate the music, and this site.

fitPod presents Body Electric from Meridian

Light up your workout with just under 60 minutes of original music guaranteed to power you all the way up and then ease you all the way back down

Body Electric is fitPod's first fitMix to include bpms of varied tempos ...feel the electricity build as your workout switches on at a steady warmup tempo of 124 bpm. Soon, the pace picks up to 128, for a total of about 8 minutes. Then, lock into a steady 40 minute piece at a solid 135 bpm. Finally, drop into cool-down mode at 120 for a few minutes, before winding it out at a relaxed 112 for the final 4.