What’s in their air pods, Part 2

What do you listen to during a workout? Does music motivate you?

For me personally, I cannot run without music. I listen to podcasts sometimes on walks. But if I’m out for a jog or running on the treadmill at Anytime Fitness, you can bet I’m listening to my playlist.

But what do area track and field athletes listen to before they compete?

The answers certainly vary. And here are a few of them in the second part of a three-part series.

Worship music is popular among the Newton girls track and field team.

But the Cardinals listened to 2010s music on the Friday of the Drake Relays, according to Newton senior Lola Rivera.

Junior Tori White said she listened to Doubt by Twenty One Pilots (2013) right before she got in line for the shuttle hurdle relay at the Drake Relays, junior Mack Sims likes Classic by MKTO (2013) and Diva by Beyoncé (2008) and Rivera mentioned Shower by Becky G, a song from 2014.

But senior Macy Lampe, juniors BrookLynn Britton and Lauren Clarke and freshman Camryn Klein all mentioned some form of Christian or worship music.

“Anything KB, he’s a Christian rapper,” Lampe said. “We listened to some of that on the way (to the Drake Relays).”

Klein has a Christian music playlist and Britton listens to Brandon Lake and Praise by Elevation Worship.

Clarke listens to country and pop and to ‘whatever is trending at the moment,’ but has gotten into worship music lately, too.

“I listened to worship music on the way to Drake,” Clarke said. “It helps me calm the nerves. I just kept thinking no matter what happens, God’s there. It’s a newer thing I’m working toward.”

PCM junior Raegan Vannoy doesn’t listen to Christian music but rather a podcast by Cliffe Knechtle, a Christian speaker who goes around and preaches the gospel at colleges.

Knechtle has two podcasts — one called Pastor Cliff’s Notes and another one he does with his son called Give Me An Answer.

“To me, it’s showing me why I’m racing,” Vannoy said. “I’m not out here for myself or to prove myself to anyone. I’m going out here to run for God.”

I caught up with a trio of Baxter girls at the Iowa Star Conference meet last week. And all three have different tastes in music.

Senior Zoey Gliem’s hype music comes from Post Malone, Juice WRLD or Jessie Murph. But music doesn’t help her before she competes.

It doesn’t help junior Camryn Russell either, but she did say she enjoys listen to music on her way to track meets.

“I don’t listen to a lot of music beforehand,” Russell said. “I think I get a little too nervous for music. It would make me more nervous.

“I can listen to music on the way to track meets. Stuff like Taylor Swift or the Wicked soundtrack.”

Baxter senior Makayla True enjoys music from the 1990s. She also loves old-school Nickelback and her hype song is “Let’s Get It Started” by the Black Eyed Peas.

Check back next for week for more content like this from athletes from Colfax-Mingo and Lynnville-Sully.

Contact Troy Hyde at thyde@shawmedia.com