Philadelphia Marathon Update: My Running Playlist Saved the Day

Last week, I mentioned that I’m running a marathon for the first time here in philadelphia and shared my music strategy and running playlist.

Well, up to mile 9 or so, things were going well, and I was following the plan, but at mile 9, I started to not feel well, most likely because I had too many energy gels too early. I wasn’t really in the mood to listen to music, so I listened to some podcasts and focused on making it through the pain.

By mile 22 I was really feeling down, but then, I decided to finish the run properly and turned on my running playlist!

I could not believe that I was able to keep a pace of 12 min/mile after running 22 miles already, but I did. The music gave me the strength i needed to finish the run fast. I kept that pace for around 4 miles or so, getting to 6:28 min/mile for a brief period of time as my fastest pace!

I can easily say, that without my running playlist, I would have never found the power to make it through. I’m still recovering from the run, and my legs still hurt, but I’m glad I did it. I can’t wait to do another one of these!

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iTunes top 10 BPM analysis: On Running Playlist dot net

I thought this week wouldn’t have too many changes in the iTunes top 10, but I forgot that glee is back on and is no longer doing the “musical” so it’s time for some “real” songs from them on running playlist.

Today’s iTunes top 10 is more diverse than I thought it would be. We have Glee of course, some new songs from Drake, and even a song from the new Twilight soundtrack, so definitely something for all you teens out there… 

As usual, I’ve bolded the songs that would make a good addition to a bpm based running playlist.

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The Philadelphia Marathon! My Music Strategy

For those of you who don’t know, I’ll be running the Philadelphia marathon next week.
It’s going to be my first (hopefully of many) marathon and I thought I’d share my running playlist and music strategy for this run with you.

Starting out, I figure that there will be too much noise and commotion to hear anything anyway, so for the first 10-15 minutes, I’m going silent.

Then, as we run through the old city of Philadelphia, past Independence Hall and other historical structures, I thought it would be appropriate to listen to the last episode of the American Revolution class from Yale I’ve been listening to on long runs.

That should take me an hour or so into the race, and then I’d probably want to get some light humor and motivation, so I’ll listen to a podcast from ultrarunnerpodcast.com

I might listen to another podcast from there, and by then I’ll be about 2.5-3 hours into the run, and will need some music to boost my spirits and distract me from how much more I have to go, so I’ll turn to my favorite running playlist (I may also throw in some of the new Taylor Swift stuff I mentioned yesterday, but I’m not sure how good she is to run with).

I know this running playlist will run out before the run is over, so I’ll loop it as needed. I may also take a break and just run with silence at some point so that my brain can rest.

If my brain is still working at the end, I’ll play some motivational song to run to at the finish, like “eye of the tiger” or the “rocky theme” (the run ends at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, also know as the “rocky steps” since they filmed that scene there)

 

 

 

 

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Post CMA Awards iTunes top 10 BPM analysis: Running Playlist 2011-10-11

 

For those of you following running playlist for a while, you should know by now why I’m super happy!

Last night, I happened to stumble onto the CMA awards. I say “stumble” because I usually don’t like award shows (e.g. the gimmicky MTV awards show) and I prefer not to hear “I’d like to thank my producer” speeches a million times. But there was nothing on TV last night (I stopped watching x-factor) so I ended up on the CMA awards.

I was absolutely blown away by the show! They really kept the speeches to a minimum and the quality of the music was incredible!

I guess after watching all those “Idol” type shows, my expectations were really low for music on TV, but watching the CMAs opened my eyes and ears to what it should be like. Not surprising, the only performances that weren’t 100% perfect were Kelly Clarkson and Scotty McCreery, both from American Idol.

I really loved the Taylor Swift performance, The Band Perry, and the Sugarland Duet! Highly recommend watching this again if you have the time.

So today, obviously, I checked the iTunes top 10 and who was there? My favorite, Taylor Swift! with 3 new songs! (“Ours” is my favorite so far…:)

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10k Running Playlist At 180 BPM and Higher

This running playlist is FAST!!!

Averaging at 198 BPM, this is probably the fastest running playlist I’ve ever put together so be careful you don’t get a heart attack when running to it.

As you might imagine, this playlist has mostly rock and heavy metal music in it, since those genres can usually go up to those high BPMs without sounding too crazy.

If you plan to run a 10k with this running playlist, you’ll go really fast, so make sure you warm up well. This playlist is also very short, at 31 minutes, so you may want to add some slower songs up front to help you ease into it and not start off with a 181 BPM song.

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