I know many of you amazing sportsters out there are happy to run only to the sound of the birds tweeting, whilst your feet rhythmically pitter patter and the wind gently kisses your face. That ain’t my reality. With beaming face, crazy eyes and the sound of heavy pounding I find myself constantly watch watching only to find I’ve run 0.01 of a KM since I last looked. Hence music. But there’s another problem - if I don’t like the track I can’t run to it so not for me Podrunner, Rock My Run etc - I can tolerate Audiofuel every so often - so to the point of my post. Running to songs that are 160-170bpm has really increased my pace and strength so I thought I’d post some of the tracks I run to in the hopes some of you out there have others you can share? Maybe someone has posted something similar in the past so apologies if this is repetition - I know all about repetition running to the same tracks over and over! Some of these are obviously faster than others all falling between 160-170bpm - eventually I’d like to run at 180 but at the moment 170 feels like a good workout and I’d struggle to consistently run 170 for any length of time. Anyway - I welcome your views and suggestions.
One way or another - One Direction (or Blondie)
Dance with Me - Olly Murs
I’m a Believer - Smash Mouth
Dear Future Husband - Meghan Trainor
Footloose - kenny Loggins
Rebel Yell - Billy Idol
Kids in America - Kim Wilde
Paint ItBlack - Rolling Stones
Every Little Thing - Police
Take on me - aha
Shake Zit Off - Taylor Swift
Surging USA - Beach Boys
River Deep - Glee cast
Hanky Panky - Madonna
Gypsies, Tramps etc - Cher
Mambo no 5 - Lou Bega
The Longest Time - Billy Joel
I Like It - Enrique Inglesias
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This is one subject that never gets old - and don't worry about repeating anything, post away!!
I'm with the birds tweeting these days, but I used to listen to music and my favourite song was a 170 bpm-er - 'Is That Love' by Squeeze. I get huge C25K nostalgia whenever I hear it!
I'm mostly just replying to say Rebel Yell is the only thing that got me up The Hill for the Edinburgh 10k—the power of that song is not to be sniffed at 😀
Spotify used to do a running playlist which would populate on the fly based on your listening history and chosen bpm, but out of the blue they retired the service in February this year and I'm so sad about it. It was great 😔
It’s great to have a list like this, thank you! I too need the rhythm to run at my best so this is perfect. I’ve been using the audio fuel polyrunner albums as they seem to work for me. I also found Wham!’s wake me up before you go go is a good one too. How about making a playlist on Spotify for us of all these perfect bpm tracks? I’d sign up to it!
Rebel Yell is fabbo as is Paint it Black. I still have my Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves 45! It’s a belter! Her voice is sooo good on that one
Footloose is mental! I love dancing to that while I run, just throwing shapes as you do 😁. I can cos as an older female runner I have the cloak of invisibility 😎
It’s not all about fast paced running though. Slow running builds legs 💪👍. You can still run slow to fast music, oh yes Find a hill, and go 😁
No hills near me but it’s on my to-do list - trough of bowland is nearedt but even walking up hills is a killer so I’m gonna have to search around for some positive thinking to make me do it...respect to you!!
Oh hon!! This post is gonna run baby. Or is Born to Run. Or similar.
There's a dearth of good songs in this bracket. But you could add in 80-85 BPM and run on the half beat. And take out outliers like James Taylor (tho i love James Taylor).
I'll check my list when I'm home but LedZep Kashmir (either LZ4 or Celebration Live) is defo on there. Rock and Roll makes the numbers but i just dont like it as much.
For the neo-Emos, then My Chemical Romance (both Sleep and The Sharpest Lives) might do it.
Paint it Black's on your list and rightly.
Rihanna Take a Bow might be in there (and there's a fantastic version of Umbrella by Manic Street Preachers too).
I ramble.
I need lots of things to keep my physio happy so cmon team!!! Life is too short for Podrunner lol
I love putting together a nice track list for a run. However, I just go for songs that give me a lift, no idea of the bpm, which I imagine varies greatly with the tracks I play.
I was just writing up my list when we had a power cut. Normal service to be resumed asap. Total list that met the criteria was 6155 tracks with a total playing time of 405hrs.
Right. Tracks I could broadly tolerate with a BPM of 160-170 or 80-85 (you'd run on the half beat). Any oddities in then there are just symptomatic of my baffling musical tastes:
[Sadly Bauhaus' Bela Lugosi's Dead missed the cut by one beat - 159 ]
Here we go for a start:
Adverts: Gary Gilmore's Eyes
Air: La femme d'argent
Althea and Donna: Uptown Top Ranking
Artic Monkeys: Brianstorm
Barbra Streisand: Don't Rain on my Parade (?? It's a belter tho!!)
Well all those should keep the Physio happy and you from stomping on your mp3 after no longer tolerating podrunner. Let me know how you get on. There’s a few others I’ve added - Martha and the Muffins Echo Beach, Blondie Maria, Diana Ross Why Do Fools - I’m itching to get back out there now even though I ran this morning. Have fun!!
I'll try. 36 of the above are now on my iPod waiting for tomorrow. Tho C25K W2 only has 90 seconds of running so I'll be walking pretty fast between times
Both knees felt a bit sore this morning, so I'm assuming it's just general "un-use" creaking going on and nothing more sinister. Happy hypochondriac me
Fab! Thank you all - I am feeling like I’m getting slower not faster and those audio fuel podcasts are painful - I can’t run to the beat as the musics so awful! As the beat supposedly increases my running slows 🤔 I’m sure I’ll do much better with music I know! 😳 watch this space.....
I run ‘outside of beat’. That helps me focus on running and music is there to colour the rest. Running ‘on the beat’ can backfire as you can be tired and the song could be too fast. Not much fun in that. Sometimes l would do fast runs against heavy, slow beats such as those of Rammstein or Marylin Manson, or longer 15-20k runs listening to Pink Floyd or classical pianists (lvo Pogorelic, for example). I cannot, though, for the life of me, even if threatened, run and listen to happy and carefree pop music, lol. Just can’t do that..
Shame. There’s nothing like a bit of ABBA to perk one up. Each to their own but five minutes of listening to Marylin Manson and I’d be looking for the nearest cliff to run off. 15-20k runs though. Wow. Respect.
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