running music
Robbnva
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Want to put together a running playlist, what songs are must haves. I like country, rock, rap. Hip hop, pop, etc so I'll probably have a really odd mix, but as long as its all upbeat, I'm good.
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I typically don't run with music since I run outside and it can very much be a safety issue.
If I'm forced to run inside, I'll listen to music. Typically 90s Top 400 -
Want to put together a running playlist, what songs are must haves. I like country, rock, rap. Hip hop, pop, etc so I'll probably have a really odd mix, but as long as its all upbeat, I'm good.
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Try out some stuff from Girl Talk. Someone just got me hooked on this. It's a really interesting mix.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzv9keJiLFg 0 -
https://jog.fm/workout-songs
You can enter in a pace which will pull a list of songs with the proper beats per minute. You can then sort by genre.0 -
lishie_rebooted wrote: »I typically don't run with music since I run outside and it can very much be a safety issue.
If I'm forced to run inside, I'll listen to music. Typically 90s Top 40
Running without music seems impossible to me.0 -
lishie_rebooted wrote: »I typically don't run with music since I run outside and it can very much be a safety issue.
If I'm forced to run inside, I'll listen to music. Typically 90s Top 40
Running without music seems impossible to me.
Well I prefer being safe because this is a crazy world.0 -
lishie_rebooted wrote: »I typically don't run with music since I run outside and it can very much be a safety issue.
If I'm forced to run inside, I'll listen to music. Typically 90s Top 40
Running without music seems impossible to me.
Don't worry; you'll get to like running eventually.
Seriously, though, I do run outside with music but not too loud - I can hear if there are cars coming before I can see them, and bike bells etc. I only leave the music at home if I need to do anything faster than marathon pace and need the extra concentration. Or obviously if I'm doing a race.
I'd listen to slower music than you think, so as not to get sucked into running too fast - country is good for this.0 -
.lishie_rebooted wrote: »I typically don't run with music since I run outside and it can very much be a safety issue.
If I'm forced to run inside, I'll listen to music. Typically 90s Top 40
Running without music seems impossible to me.
Don't worry; you'll get to like running eventually.
Seriously, though, I do run outside with music but not too loud - I can hear if there are cars coming before I can see them, and bike bells etc. I only leave the music at home if I need to do anything faster than marathon pace and need the extra concentration. Or obviously if I'm doing a race.
I'd listen to slower music than you think, so as not to get sucked into running too fast - country is good for this.
You tend to go slower when you're sobbing about your wife and dog leaving you. *sniff* "Pour me another round please."
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lishie_rebooted wrote: »I typically don't run with music since I run outside and it can very much be a safety issue.
I use Yurbuds or cheap ear buds with the foam and keep my music at a reasonable level so I can hear ambient noise.0 -
I have my music volume turned to a level where I can hear what is around me. I am the person that needs music to run. I have tried it both ways and cannot stand running without music.
That being said some of my favorites are:
Anything by PitBull- the beat is amazing and I tend to adjust my pace with his music
"Happy"
"Proud Mary"
Most things Black Eyed Peas
Lots of Iggy Azalea
"All about the Base"
"Living on a Prayer"- that is on my marathon and 1/2 marathon playlist
"Pour Some Sugar on Me"
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.lishie_rebooted wrote: »I typically don't run with music since I run outside and it can very much be a safety issue.
If I'm forced to run inside, I'll listen to music. Typically 90s Top 40
Running without music seems impossible to me.
Don't worry; you'll get to like running eventually.
Seriously, though, I do run outside with music but not too loud - I can hear if there are cars coming before I can see them, and bike bells etc. I only leave the music at home if I need to do anything faster than marathon pace and need the extra concentration. Or obviously if I'm doing a race.
I'd listen to slower music than you think, so as not to get sucked into running too fast - country is good for this.
You tend to go slower when you're sobbing about your wife and dog leaving you. *sniff* "Pour me another round please."
You haven't listened to country in a long time have you lol0 -
.lishie_rebooted wrote: »I typically don't run with music since I run outside and it can very much be a safety issue.
If I'm forced to run inside, I'll listen to music. Typically 90s Top 40
Running without music seems impossible to me.
Don't worry; you'll get to like running eventually.
Seriously, though, I do run outside with music but not too loud - I can hear if there are cars coming before I can see them, and bike bells etc. I only leave the music at home if I need to do anything faster than marathon pace and need the extra concentration. Or obviously if I'm doing a race.
I'd listen to slower music than you think, so as not to get sucked into running too fast - country is good for this.
You tend to go slower when you're sobbing about your wife and dog leaving you. *sniff* "Pour me another round please."
You haven't listened to country in a long time have you lol
There are still a lot of newer country songs that are terrible to run to.
Some of the "poppier" ones are fine.
But he's correct and it's something I've noticed when I'm on a treadmill.
There are 180bpm playlists for a reason, I'm hitting a faster cadence when I listen to something around the 180bpm range (which is the range I need to run at to not irritate my injury) so "Bye Bye Bye" by NSync will help me hit my cadence whereas "My Immortal" by Evanescence won't. It's something I learned last fall while upping my cadence to help my injury.
https://jog.fm/workout-songs/at/180/bpm
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I am not a big country music fan, but I do have a few on my running playlist. One of my faves is "Fast as You" by Dwight Yoakam. It came on last night during my run, as a matter of fact, and I thought to myself, "Dang, this is an awesome running song".0
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I never thought about the speed of the song and speed running, makes sense0
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I have a few compilations; Ministry of Sound Running Trax, Now thats what I call Running and various Hed Kandy.
Now Running 15 is awful, bpm is all over the place and it's really difficult to run to, but the rest are pretty good. Other than unexpectedly getting Eye of the Tiger at about 11 miles.
I'll listen when I'm in London as pounding down the Thames can get a bit tedious at times, but I don't when I'm offroad at home.0 -
Blurred lines (Thick)
Scalliwag (Gaelic Storm)
Sunnier Days (Diego Garcia)
Welcome to NY (Swift - doing NY in the Fall so got this one)
Juntos (Juanes)
American Kids (Chesney)
Happy (ha ha Pharrell Williams)
Respectable (Nellie McKay)
Kodachrome (Simon) likey b/c I do photography with a Nikon
Graceland (Simon)
Zoot Suit Riot
and if you want eclectic perhaps classicals such Sabre Dance, or Turkish March)
Uh Oh (Talking Heads)
Running down a dream (Petty)
I got you (Split Enz) (not quite 'upbeat' )
or really upbeat like Yakety Sax ha ha.
Have fun!
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Hi i love beyonce bruno mars, tina, bit of taylor swift. Can't beat pitbull though he is a mucky little pup.
For long runs I downloaded some move sound tracks - braveheart, last of the mohicans, some of Gladiator. Big soaring tunes and nice scenery to distract me and keep me steady.0 -
Volbeat
Lindsey Stirling
Pendulum
Metallica
Queen
Megadeth
If you match your strides to songs by some of the bands above you can set a pretty wicked pace
I actually just shuffle my entire music library when exercising so I might go from Love Is A Battlefield to Master Of Puppets then to Ain't That A Kick In The Head. Makes for an interesting vibe.0 -
For music I try to keep the beat around the pace I want to keep, mostly modern (Akon, Flo Rida, Pitbull, Lady Gaga, etc.). Somewhere else recommended audiobooks and that has worked really great. I am in the middle of a 12 hour 'book' and I can't wait to get to my run today, to hear the next chapter. Off days can be a pain cause I want to find out the next segment.0
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Country was a big help staying at a steady pace today, that was a great tip.0
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I like to run with 1 earbud in. That way I can still have full awareness of everyone & everything around me, but I've got some jams to keep me company on those long runs!
I tend to have a really uneven cadence (I'm working on it) so I've put together a 180 bpm playlist that I play on shuffle during my long runs.
Some of my favourites are:
Karma Chameleon - Culture Club
Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
The Distance - Cake
Runnin' Down a Dream - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
The Big Bad Wolf - The Heavy
Roustabout (Bassnectar Remix) - Beats Antique
Swing the Mood - Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers
One of These Mornings - Moby
Zoot Suit Riot - Cherry Poppin' Daddies0 -
I ran the entire Chicago marathon to just Nickelback. Want my playlist? Lol.
In all seriousness, I t set a good pace for me. Most of their songs are about 155 to 160 bpm.0 -
alikonda, I love that you have Culture Club on your play list. One of my favorite guilty pleasure playlist songs is "Church of the Poison Mind". Yeah, it's Culture Club, but it's such a brilliant song and has a great running tempo. Other favorites of mine:
Common People-Pulp
Friend of the Devil and Truckin- Grateful Dead
Try-Pink
I'm on a Roll- Over the Rhine
And She Was- Talking Heads
Touch Me I'm Going to Scream Part II-My Morning Jacket
Carry On-Fun
Time to Run-Lord Huron
Girl on Fire-Alicia Keys
Bad-U2
Running Up that Hill-Kate Bush
Anything by Echo and the Bunnymen
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Are you on Spotify? There are a lot of good playlists on there -- I made one called "upbeat" and listen to it whenever I'm not listening to podcasts. Here are my recs:
Gold on the Ceiling - Black Keys
Miracle Mile - Cold War Kids
Consolation Prizes - Phoenix
Machu Picchu - The Strokes
Do What You Want - OK Go
(so on and so forth)
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Yes. Some said I should have got a separate medal for it.0 -
Yes. Some said I should have got a separate medal for it.
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