Music or no music?

[Emlist29]

Hey all.

During my runs I have been listening to music but find my choices are not motivating me as I progress through the program.

What does everyone listen to?

What albums/songs do people recommend?

🎶 🏃🏽‍♀️🎧

[pot58 Graduate]

Hi, well it might not work for you but I listen to audible books. It really takes my mind off things...

[Emlist29 Graduate in reply to pot58]

I love audible books and pod cast so might give it a go.

[Scouser67 Graduate]

I listen to my radio station whilst running with the app on in the background.

[SeeJillRun Graduate]

I listen to podcasts, the Zombies, Run app, music or a guided run on Nike Run Club, depending on how I feel. Variety is the spice of my running life 😂🏃‍♀️

[Daznvern Graduate]

I listen to spotify. Uk top 50 on shuffle play at the moment. Tom Walker, Coldplay, Ed Sheeran etc

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Music is definitely the way for me. I've tried Podcasts but they don't motivate me when running. I use Spotify and have a playlist of songs I enjoy running too. It's mostly dance remixes of pop songs, past and present. Each to their own, eh?

[Oldgirlruns Graduate]

I just have my downloaded music on shuffle so have everything coming through, including stuff I’d forgotten I had and haven’t listened to for ages! Everything from Handel through Chris Rea, Fleet Foxes to George Ezra - It’s great fun!

[RunaroundSue]

I quite like the Polyrunner podcasts and also the Run Free and Run Wild from AudioFuel (the people who made the NHS C25K podcasts).

audiofuel.co.uk/nhs/

The Polyrunner ones are good because they come in different paces. By working through these I increased my running time and distance so that I was able to run a 10K (only one, mind you )

[UnfitNoMore Graduate]

I ran with music, now it’s either a podcast, a guided run, or the birdsong and the occasional update from my tracker.