Music, music, music. Help please ... 🎶🎧🎶

[linda9389]

Help!!! Just six days to go until our HU spring 2025 event!

It's going to take me over three hours to run a metric marathon ... and we only have an hour's worth of music on our playlist!

With over 36 runners signed up, I'm sure we must be able to come up with some more tracks for the list.

So, please, please ... tell us your favourite running tunes and save me from looped play 😍 Just let us know your suggested tunes/artist in the comments below.

You can see the current recommendations on the shared Spotify playlist here: open.spotify.com/playlist/5...

Your team Beachcomber66 , Irishprincess and me xxx

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[Dexy5 10 Miles]

Here’s a few more from my playlist Linda,

Paint it Black - Rolling Stones

Rehab - Amy Winehouse

Clocks - Coldplay

Mockingbird - Dusty Springfield

Lifted - Lighthouse Family

Dreadlock Holiday - 10CC

Ain’t Nobody Here … - Louis Jordan

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon in reply to Dexy5]

Fabulous Dexy. Thanks 🙏

[TailChaser Marathon]

Ok…. Here goes:

Road Rage - Catatonia

Summon the Fire - The Comet is Coming

Mr Motivator - Idles

Don’t Stop - Fleetwood Mac

Pounding - Doves

The Night - Franki Valli & The Four Seasons

Mr Brightside - The Killers

Big - Fontaines DC

Running/Planning - CMAT

Hopefully that’s half an hours worth if they aren’t already on there

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon in reply to TailChaser]

Wonderful. Thanks TC 🙏

[Shake-and-run Half Marathon]

here is my favourite running track (it’s much more positive than it seems) ‘Giving Up’ by Simon Lane.

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon in reply to Shake-and-run]

Fabulous! Thanks Shakes 😊

[mrrun Ultramarathon]

Ok, l can talk music for days or longer 😀.

Running and music can be delicate and is very personal. It interferes with your running rhythm and levels of fatigue. It could boost your run but it can also drain your brain focus and irritate you.

As a rule, when running l always listen to something that l enjoy listening to when l am comfortable at home. Alone. I transfer that to my runs. But if the running conditions are not fine (I’m cold, it’s too windy, I’m tired) even my music won’t help - so I’ll turn it off.

Crucially, if I am to listen to somebody else’s playlist (Spotify, for example) or tunes l simply dislike - the run is off. It would simply irritate my focus.

Having said all this, l absolutely respect and admire anyone who can comfortably run along any random music playlist and complete their tasks, l simply can’t. 😀

Equally, l wish you complete the playlist and you all enjoy it! 😀

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon in reply to mrrun]

Like many things with running, I'd agree that music is a very personal preference. Music can have a very strong positive effect on my runs one day, and a very negative effect another. For me, it's not so much the run itself but the state of play of my headspace that is the most important factor in my choosing music or silence, tried and tested or eclectic and out there 🙈With these HU playlists I've often given grateful thanks for the skip button, but it's generally given me a laugh 😍

[Cmoi Marathon in reply to mrrun]

Well said.

[Hobbitfan Half Marathon]

I would make suggestions, but I can't run to music - quite literally as it makes me want to run to the beat and my body (especially my asthmatic lungs!) just can't keep up!!! I end up listening to audio books. Having said that, I have saved the list on Spotify just in case!

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon in reply to Hobbitfan]

I used to listen to books, but would find myself drifting far, far away during a run and missing huge chunks of it 😅. Same with podcasts. So my solution is generally slow easy music. As MrRun says, it's all very personal 😊

[AlMorr Half Marathon]

On Spotify I have a complation of songs compiled for runners by Jancanrun, named "Retro Runners, Birthday Number Ones, "2 hours 38 minutes, certainly OK for 10K or 10 mile runners and most HM runners, it has my favourite running song on it which is "Keep on running by the Spencer Davis Group,"

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon in reply to AlMorr]

I'll add that track to our spring 25 playlist Al, thanks 😊

[nowster Metric Marathon]

I tend to run to spoken word podcasts precisely because I don't want to get cadence locked to the music, and my cadence is fairly high (170-180spm), so my recommendations might not be suitable to all.

The forecast for Sunday morning here (north Manchester) looks ideal. Best of luck to the Manchester marathoners!

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon in reply to nowster]

My cadence is usually 175 to 180 too. I'm not sure I react to the beat of the music physically, mine is more a mental reaction that taps into my energy level I think. My music of choice is actually pretty slow relative to my cadence. Sadly my concentration when running, is often not good enough to stay focused on a podcast 🙈Here's to decent weather everywhere on Sunday. Enjoy 😊

[TailChaser Marathon in reply to nowster]

Cheers nowster! I have to say that most of my long training runs have been spent listening to Stuart Maconie’s Full English. Superb book about his recreation of J B Priestley’s English Journey. I just got lost in it and drifted off to those places he was talking about. Handy that it lasted about 10 hours of listening!

[00marks Marathon]

Bruce Springsteen - Born to run 😀

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon in reply to 00marks]

Perfect!!!

[TailChaser Marathon in reply to linda9389]

I resisted putting that…it is so good!

[Dexy5 10 Miles]

And of course , Running up that hill - Kate Bush.

Sometimes, especially on a 10k or longer run, I will just shuffle my whole iTunes library. I love hearing something I haven’t heard for ages and if I don’t like it I can just skip.