For the past four weeks Alex and I have been building up our runs by about a 1/2 mile each week. And each week I find myself in the same predicament...what do I add to my running mix to keep me going while not getting bored of what is already on there? The latter is fairly easy, I try to trick my brain by mixing the songs up each week. That way my body doesn't associate one song with a specific point in my run. The bigger challenge is finding new tunes. Zune has a pretty cool thing in their marketplace called Channels and they designate a few of them to fitness and update them each week with songs based on bpm. This has really helped me discover new stuff as well as plug into oldies but goodies. At this point in our training, we are only running 1/2 the distance we will be doing in June. I think I have my work cut out for me. Needless to say, this is by far one of the most important things in my training regimen. Without music, I wouldn't be able to run!
Current Running Mix - 72 minutes
Get Ready for This - 2 Unlimited
I Bet You Look Good on the Dance floor - Arctic Monkeys
Sex on Fire - Kings of Leon
SexyBack - Justin Timberlake
Kids - MGMT
Paper Planes - M.I.A.
Positive Tension - Bloc Party
Single Ladies - Beyonce
Time to Pretend - MGMT
I Drove all Night - Celine Dion (no laughing)
Helicopter - Bloc Party
Always Something There To Remind Me - Naked Eyes
Kill Your Television - Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Supermoves - Overseer
You Spin Me Round - Dead or Alive
Paradise City - Guns N' Roses
Talk Dirty To Me - Poison
Best of You - Foo Fighters
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