Hey! It’s Officially Summer!

Summertime, and the wogging is easy, even if it’s 53 minutes long and Very Vigorous. But this week’s wog is guaranteed to give you happy feet as we explore the joyous side of pop music. Who can resist Simon & Garfunkel’s Feeling Groovy, Three Dog Night’s Joy to the World, or Stevie Wonder’s You Are the Sunshine of My Life? Not me! (Okay, I confess there are a couple songs in the set that explore Happiness from the other side of the street.) Get the list at Podwogging.com.

Summer!

What better way to kick off summer than a Wog-a-Thon called “Summer!”? Which also happens to be the Weekly Wog. Yesterday I biked over to the track by King Middle School and put Summer! on my pod. I didn’t have time to wog the entire 56 minutes, but the nice thing about Wog-a-thons is that they’re made so it’s easy to skip over songs for a shorter wog. So I skipped over The Doors’ Indian Summer, Joe Satriani’s Summer Song, Don Henley’s The Boys of Summer, the Lovin’ Spoonful’s Summer in the City, and Timbuk3’s The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades—still good enough for a 37-minute workout. Summer! has a couple of excellent Skiplekkers in Seals and Crofts’ Summer Breeze and Chuck Prophet’s Summer Thing, which added to the intensity and fun of the workout. Check it all out at Podwogging.com.

Song Index now in text files: To reduce file size and unclog my website, I’ve now made the three song lists (by title, pace, and artist) downloadable, tab-delimited text files. This makes it easy to read them in word processors or spreadsheets for those who want to start using song BPMs to roll their own woglists.