Excursions

Artist: M. Ward
Album: Hold Time
Year: 2009

And speaking of workout music, how awesome is this track?

M. Ward? Workout music? I know, it doesn’t seem to match up, especially when his usual soft strumming and cracked voice drifts over the speaker. But wait until the energetic handclap backing comes in. This spring, when I first discovered I could run more than a couple miles and actually enjoy it, this song was on repeat on my headphones, propelling me down the East River, over the Manhattan bridge into Brooklyn, then back over the Brooklyn bridge while I dodged tourists wandering into the run/bike lane.