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Onbeat Running
Running metronome
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Running metronome
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Onbeat plays a beat at your target cadence over whatever you're already listening to, music, podcasts, or nothing. Intervals change the beat each segment, and the Cadence Builder walks you up from your own baseline in twelve sessions over four weeks. Phone in your pocket, with your own headphones. Every feature is free. No ads.
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The hardest part about running for me is not the act itself but rather negotiating with your mind. I can't listen to music while running and keep a steady pace, getting bored with one song and switching to another one and matching the pace of that one. My mind is constantly negotiating; my sneakers feel off and my shoelaces not properly tied so I should stop and redo them for the 2nd time; I don't know if I ate enough to support the 10k I set out to do, maybe I should shorten the distance; my left knee feels weird, should I stop? Every tiny discomfort becomes an exit strategy my brain offers me, and each one feels rational in the moment.
To get past this, I started adopting a similar approach I take in meditation, having an anchor that cuts through the mental noise. That is the premise of this app; a beat that your mind and your steps can follow. Runners use a metronome to train their cadence, but I find that it does something far more useful than that. The beat gives your mind a fixed point it can't negotiate with. The beat doesn't care that your shoelace feels off. It doesn't care that maybe you didn't eat enough. It just keeps going, and your legs follow. Since using a metronome and playing it over my podcasts, I've run faster and further than I've ever been able to.
Onbeat plays the beat over whatever you're already listening to. The Cadence Builder starts from your own baseline and walks it up over twelve sessions in four weeks. It's free, every feature.
I used to think the hardest part of running was the running. It's not. It's getting past your own mind long enough to find out what you're actually capable of.
For runners who've worked on cadence, did your easy runs and your workouts end up at different numbers, or did it settle at one?