This versatile song can play many roles. I love to use it as a warm-up, but it also works beautifully in the middle of your ride as a gentle climb, a slight headwind, or a moderate-energy flat road. Wherever you place it, the singer’s haunting, otherworldly voice has a way of drawing you in and making even the simplest stretch of road feel deeper, more mysterious, and more meaningful.Read more…

One of the first songs I used as a Spinning® instructor, this track has been in my repertoire since the mid-’90s—and it still feels just as special. A great climb doesn’t always need high energy. Sometimes all you need is a beautiful rhythm, a gradually building challenge, and a piano solo so good that you can’t help but pretend you’re playing it yourself.Read more…