My top 5 are
1. Living on a Prayer
2. Boogie Wonderland
3. I Never Knew Love like this before (cannot remember who sings it. Its just a cheesy 70's disco track)
4. Run for home, run as fast as I can, running man...(I am cringing as I type that one)
5. Breakaway
I dont know why there is such a 70's vibe to my brains playlist. I am only 29!!
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Never Knew love like this was by Alexander O'Neill.
It can drive me mad!
what a
womble,womble,womble your are
oh - how I hate that 'song' and how often it comes back into my head
At the moment I've just acquired a track by the Foo Fighters called "All My Life" which is absolutely brilliant if you want something with lots of energy in a rock sort of way. They fetaure Dave Grohl who used to be in Nirvana if that gives you a refernce point. Otherwise it could be something more dance orientated for similar energy reasons, or occasionally something I can just veg out to/get into a meditative state and just detach from the constant plodding.
"A Whiter Shade of Pal"?? Is this a new kind of dog food Bobolink? ;-)
Mad Donna's - 'The Wheels On The Bus Go Round and Round'.
It finds its way into my head during every other run. It's quirkily sweet and certainly keeps the momentum going - even if it does drive me mad !
You only heard it once, you're so lucky.
We've got two small children I've heard it millions & millions of times (I'm sure I can find a tape of it if you want!)
A good song to sing on long runs is Road to Nowhere!
Usually start off to mellow stuff, bit of 70's, then comes the dance tracks to really get the pace going!
it's tragic.
Absolutely Flawless - the ones - funky dance choon
Singin In The Rain - having tried to get the crowd singin on that very rainy wednesday -doh
Defintiely nothing by the Tweenies or Fimbles!
Don't Stop Movin' - S Club 7
You Get What You Give - New Radicals
The S Club song has obvious running lyrics, and thinking of Rachel helps take my mind off the pain. The New Radicals one includes the line 'you ran a miracle mile' (or something similar), which might just happen one day.
Beyond that -
"Oh what a night, late December back in sixty-three, was a very special time for me, what a lady, what a night..."
Also Just Like A Pill by P!nk:
"And I'm gonna run
Just as fast as I can
(then a few lines, and then:)
.. It's just like a pill
'Stead of making me better
Keeps making me ill
It keeps making me ill"
That one always provokes an ironic chuckle and the perverse urge to go faster, for some reason.
I've found that my longer runs are a great time to think about what I'm going to say at my job interview in a couple of weeks time. The runs seem to go by really fast when you think about something else.
number's one I often get in my head -
it's got a nice jogging beat to it.
Also I make up US Marine style chants
as I run along - the filthier the better!!!
On the other hand, of course, if you overwhelm the senses with loud music then the brain has less time to cope with the signals being received from the legs etc and you can run harder as a result!
Apparently!
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And no...the irony wasn't lost on me.
Finished the last 3 miles of the Windsor Half by singing the first half of the Beatles Sgt Pepper's album in my head. Also was helped by singing We Will Rock You by Queen and of course, always get a little burst of speed if I think of their song that goes, "don't stop me know, I'm having such a good time, I'm having a ball," etc.
I have seen a few people doing it at some events but I would have thought it would take away from your social enjoyment of the race as people would perhaps be disuaded(?) from starting a conversation with you?!
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