Every runner has a beat: the cadence. This dashboard pulls Martin's real cadence live from Strava, matches it against 89,583 Spotify tracks, and finds the songs that literally keep him in step.
Fetched from the Strava API the moment you opened this page. Cadence (steps per minute) is the musical fingerprint of each run — click one to load its cadence profile and tune the matcher to it.
Songs whose BPM locks onto your step frequency. Half-time matches count too — 80 BPM feels right at 160 steps/min because every second footstrike lands on the beat.
All 114 genres mapped by median tempo and energy. The green band is your current target zone — genres inside it are your natural running soundtrack. Bubble size = share of the genre inside the 150–180 BPM runner zone.
Martin's Zone-2 trail cadence averages ~153 spm, but threshold intervals spike to ~176 spm. One "running playlist" can't serve both — you need an easy-day deck and an interval deck.
The genre whose median BPM (160.1) sits closest to the everyday runner's cadence is literally called "happy". The data suggests joy and jogging share a tempo.
DnB's median tempo of 173.9 BPM lands almost exactly on Martin's hard-rep cadence (~176 spm). The rave genre is accidentally a threshold-training metronome.
Across 89,583 tracks, tempo has zero correlation with popularity (r = 0.009). The mainstream doesn't care about your cadence — which is exactly why a matcher like this has to exist.