Listen up - the HUHM & 10K playlist and soundtrack need you! 🏃🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️🎵🎧

[Cmoi]

Calling all HUHM & 10K Spring 2023 participants and VRBS - the HUHM & 10K playlist 🎵 and soundtrack 🎧 need you!

To accompany you and your VRBs as you head around your chosen HUHM & 10K Spring 2023 route, we’re putting together two audio features:

🎧 A RunGo soundtrack based on the Vancouver HM, to enable you to experience that fabulous city virtually. Even better,   linda9389 is hoping to test this out and tweak it for you during her forthcoming Canadian trip – yes, really! So, to make the soundtrack a truly unique HU experience, we’d like you to provide some short’n’snappy motivational soundbites, whether silly or serious, to include. Please PM Linda with your ideas as soon as possible, so she can get creating. Chat messages only, please, to keep the motivational magic a surprise for the day!

🎵 A Spotify playlist, which we’re aiming to base on your suggestions. This will be compiled by  Cmoi ably aided and abetted by  TailChaser . Please send them your suggestions either by replying to this post, or by sending a chat message. It’ll help loads if you can provide the names of the tunes and the artists performing, and if possible, Spotify links. The tracks don’t have to be running-themed, just music that you like to run to. Feel free, too, to suggest more than one song.

Both the RunGo soundtrack and Spotify playlist are free and can be used together, independently or not at all – the choice is yours!

So please get your thinking caps on, then get PM’ing and/or replying – we’re looking forward to hearing from you!

The Marathon Team xxx

[TailChaser Marathon]

This may be cheating but I’m going to kick this off as it’s oh so quiet in here (wasn’t that a Bjork song?). Here in the UK I think we could all do with some Mr Blue Sky by ELO at the moment 🌞

[SueAppleRun 10 Miles in reply to TailChaser]

Well there goes my number one choice 😂So I'm going to follow with, Diamonds on the Soles if her Shoes by Paul Simon.

open.spotify.com/track/71Gv...

[TailChaser Marathon in reply to SueAppleRun]

Excellent choice Sola 😍

[Cmoi Marathon in reply to SueAppleRun]

You can have several choices Sola, we'll need loads of tracks, so feel free to suggest more!

[SueAppleRun 10 Miles in reply to Cmoi]

I'll have a think 🤔

[misswobble Marathon in reply to SueAppleRun]

beautiful 🥰🎶🎵. I adore Paul Simon I run to loads of his stuff 🏃‍♀️

[Hedgehogs123 Metric Marathon in reply to TailChaser]

Absolutely love that song great choice!! 😄

[TailChaser Marathon in reply to Hedgehogs123]

It really is!

[CandyCool Marathon]

I like When the going gets tough- Billy Ocean. We are the champions- Queen. And of course the theme from Chariots of Fire - Vangelis….but there are just so many to choose from!!!

[SueAppleRun 10 Miles in reply to CandyCool]

Radio Gaga while we are thinking of Queen

[TailChaser Marathon in reply to SueAppleRun]

If we’re having Chariots of Fire then we’ll also need the London Marathon theme, The Trap, by Ron Goodwin. They both cause the hairs on the back of my neck to prickle 😍

[Dexy5 10 Miles in reply to TailChaser]

Yes, and also the theme to Ski Sunday is on my playlist. Pop Goes Bach. By New World Orchestra

[Cmoi Marathon in reply to Dexy5]

So would you like it adding to the HUHM10K playlist  Dexy5 ? Sorry, my brain's a bit fried at the moment, and I'm getting confused as to what's a request for tracks to include and what's not!

[Dexy5 10 Miles in reply to Cmoi]

yes, if you’ve got room for it Cmoi?

[Hedgehogs123 Metric Marathon]

Can we also have Eye of the Tiger by Survivor and I would walk 5 hundred miles by the Proclaimers please

[TailChaser Marathon in reply to Hedgehogs123]

Of course HH, consider them added 👍. Both essential and totally uplifting 😀

[Birdlady64]

Running Up That Hill, Kate Bush

I hate hills, but love this song! 😁

[Irish-John Marathon in reply to Birdlady64]

I played Darts with Kate back in the day - just prior to Wuthering Heights and her career taking off Don't tell her I said thing - but she is certainly a better singer/songwriter than a Darts player LOL

[Birdlady64 in reply to Irish-John]

Now that’s a really brilliant anecdote!

[Irish-John Marathon in reply to Birdlady64]

I swear, all I have ever done is basically blunder through life - and things like that simply just happen

[TailChaser Marathon in reply to Irish-John]

That’s amazing John! That’s a brilliant claim to fame!

[TailChaser Marathon in reply to Irish-John]

If she was as good a darts player she’d be 20+ stone and up on the Oche with Ray van Barneveld at the World Champs each Christmas 😆

[Irish-John Marathon in reply to TailChaser]

LOL

I used to play a LOT of Darts from about '76 to '83. Can't really say I know much about the scene nowadays but from what little I've seen it's gone way too flash for my taste. Bobby George started the trend I guess - but missing the sheer Class the likes of Stefan Lord, Bill Lennard, even Jocky Wilson...solid Players In my book, John Lowe was the greatest Dartsman ever - the likes of Eric Bristow played great, but JL was great

Mind you, Kate has packed on a few pounds since those days - maybe I ought to chat to her about starting C25K

[TailChaser Marathon in reply to Irish-John]

🤣🤣 Can you imagine the headlines if the press caught her out for a run?

I played darts when I was a teenager, Eric Bristow was my man, I had his flights on my darts, I was very proud of them 😊

[Irish-John Marathon in reply to TailChaser]

I bet she'd never feel the same again about "Running Up That Hill" 😂

[misswobble Marathon in reply to Irish-John]

I think John Lowe is local to me . I know nowt about daaaaarts other than that

We always had a dart board behind the kitchen door when I was a kid.

[Irish-John Marathon in reply to misswobble]

Would love to meet him. Watching him was to see total concentration, the kind very very few ever attain in any circumstances

[misswobble Marathon in reply to Irish-John]

can you remember Smith and Jones sketch 😁

[Irish-John Marathon in reply to misswobble]

I don't think I saw that ? 🙂

[Hedgehogs123 Metric Marathon in reply to Birdlady64]

Haha, I need to play that track when myself and the other girls are getting used to hill training!! 🤣🤣

[misswobble Marathon in reply to Hedgehogs123]

I use Led Zep “Kashmir” for hill climbing 💪😀🎵🎶

[Hedgehogs123 Metric Marathon in reply to misswobble]

I've just played it (full volume!)to remind myself of it, absolutely cracking song, got to go on the list!!! 😄😄

[Cmoi Marathon in reply to Hedgehogs123]

Which song please Hedgehogs123 ? Nine minutes (!) of Led Zep or a mere 5 of Kate? Fried brain here!

[Hedgehogs123 Metric Marathon in reply to Cmoi]

I guess 8 mins of Led Zep may be too long, so maybe Kate Bush😆

[Cmoi Marathon in reply to Hedgehogs123]

Kate's in there, and I'll add Led Zep.

[misswobble Marathon in reply to Hedgehogs123]

💪🏃‍♀️🎶🎵 Halvalla I am cominnng. That always makes me titter 😀

[Cmoi Marathon in reply to Hedgehogs123]

Nah, you need one about knowing when to walk up hills!

[Hedgehogs123 Metric Marathon in reply to Cmoi]

🤣🤣

[Dexy5 10 Miles in reply to Birdlady64]

it has to be there.!

[Cowladyrunning Marathon]

spotify.link/BsmZGFvAWyb where's your head at? Basement Jaxx cos I just heard it and thought I ask myself that on a lot of runs 🤣 and spotify.link/71aD2G5AWyb

Titanium by David Guetta because I love running to it ! Thank you!

[Cmoi Marathon in reply to Cowladyrunning]

Titanium takes me straight back to when I was teaching some particularly challenging agricultural school students. I'd use it in class as a treat for them, thinking all the while "This is my theme song with you guys!"

[Cowladyrunning Marathon in reply to Cmoi]

🤣 oh sorry!!!

[Cmoi Marathon in reply to Cowladyrunning]

No need to apologise, I love it, very much a never give up song!

[MissUnderstanding Half Marathon in reply to Cowladyrunning]

Love Titanium…a favourite of mine too!

[TailChaser Marathon in reply to Cowladyrunning]

Perfect Cowlady. I had to play Titanium to recognise it but you’re right, it is a really good, uplifting song.

[Cowladyrunning Marathon in reply to TailChaser]

😀 I just love the little skippy beat it has.... beats any caffeine boost... music is a great power giving drug!

[TailChaser Marathon in reply to Cowladyrunning]

It’s the way it builds up as well, you can target it in your mind as you’re running along, so it’s a really good distraction.

[Hedgehogs123 Metric Marathon in reply to Cowladyrunning]

Titanium, brilliant track!!!!

[MissUnderstanding Half Marathon]

It’s so hard to narrow it down! Here are three favourites from very different genres…

Firestarter by the Prodigy (even better if it’s the Andy C drum and bass remix!) got me over the line at the Bath HM.

Lose Yourself by Eminem.

Free by Florence and the Machine.

[Cowladyrunning Marathon in reply to MissUnderstanding]

Great choices!

[TailChaser Marathon in reply to MissUnderstanding]

Fab! Consider them added MissU!

That reminds me, Mr Brightside by The Killers, start line music at the Vitality 10k last year 🙌

[MissUnderstanding Half Marathon in reply to TailChaser]

Love The Killers! Mr Brightside is a classic. Great choice.

[TailChaser Marathon in reply to MissUnderstanding]

It is! Helped me get my 10k PB!

[Freecloud Marathon]

I like keeping it nice and easy these days. I listened to some recommended fast beat playlist during an early parkrun and was terrified when I saw the way my heart had been racing afterwards 🤣.

A nice easy one from me would be Piano man - Billy Joel.

[TailChaser Marathon in reply to Freecloud]

That’s just parkrun though, when you get carried away by the crowd. You could try fooling your heartbeat by listening to something gentler but keeping the pace up. I wonder if that would work 🤔 I might try that on Saturday!

Great choice Freecloud, another classic, consider it added 👍

[Freecloud Marathon in reply to TailChaser]

Found it! It was a playlist called run "n" Bass. This was in the early days after doing the run to the beat thing from C25k app. I never listen to fast stuff running anymore, I usually have it playing in the background whilst playing NRC. Thanks T C.

[misswobble Marathon in reply to Freecloud]

great choice 👍

[Dexy5 10 Miles]

I’d have to include Come on Eileen by Dexy’s Midnight Runners, for obvious reasons. 😂.

Also , Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens by Louis Jordan because it always make me smile and sing along. 🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓

[misswobble Marathon]

Baba O’Riley is always on my playlist. Flat piece of ground for when the instrumental bit arrives 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂

[LottieMW]

Some of my current Spotify favs…

Dire Straits: Sultans of Swing…T.Rex: Get it On…Bruce Springsteen: Born to Run…Bob Seger: Hollywood Nights… Steely Dan: Reeling in the Years…Stephen Stills: Love the One You’re With…Creedance Clearwater Revival: Up Around the Bend…

I could go on…😂🏃🏻‍♀️🎶

[misswobble Marathon]

I’ve got Up and Around the Bend in my playlist 😀🎶🎵

i adore Steely Dan 🥰

[Irish-John Marathon]

"Word Up" by Cameo."Urgent" by Foreigner

And

"Fishermans Blues" by The Waterboys.

And of course,

"Cloudbusting" by the inimitable Kate "Where did my Dart go?" Bush.

😁

[cheekychipmunks Half Marathon]

May I add Blinding Lights by The Weekend? They played live at the SuperBowl a few years ago and it rocked. It’s on my running playlist and always perks me right up. 😀

[Irishprincess Administrator Half Marathon]

My taste in running music is from the epic genre, big orchestral pieces, which I appreciate is not everyone’s cup of tea but I do have non-epic pieces on my playlist. This is my current favourite.

“Back To You” by Lost Frequencies, Elley Duhė & X Ambassadors

Other favs are:

“Wake Me Up” by Avicii

”Tusk” by Fleetwood Mac ( a perfect 180 BPM)

“Cheap Thrills” by Sia feat Sean Paul

“Bad Moon Rising” by Creedence Clearwater Revival

“Can You Feel It” by The Jacksons

“Glitter and Gold” by Barns Courtney

These always perk me up and I usually sing along to them too 😂

I’m not on Spotify, so can’t give you the links, sorry.

[Sandraj39 Half Marathon]

Some fab tunes above!

Sia -The Greatest 💪🏆( The lyrics are just made to run to!)

Sia - Unstoppable.

Britney Spears - Stronger (Yep, I still love Britney!!)

Sarah Bareilles - Brave

[ForbiddenPlanet Half Marathon]

My tastes are eccentric so a rejection will not offend 😀, but as a suggestion here are the first 6 tracks from my current running playlist -

Bullet Train - Stacey Kent

When Love Comes to Town - Torsten Goods, Ida Sand

Born This Way - First to Eleven

You Only Live Twice - Bill Frisell

Someday After a While - Carl Verheyen

Cold - Black Country Communion

Here is a link to the playlist -

open.spotify.com/playlist/4...