Thursday, September 24, 2009

Music for running

I am constantly trying to craft the best playlist to run to. See...I don't like running very much.

Well, that's not entirely true.

I do enjoy the feeling of accomplishment I feel when I finish and run. And I like how running makes the numbers on the scale get smaller.

But when I run, I get bored. I am not one of those people who goes to some blissful, zen place when they run. I don't think through problems. I don't think *anything* beyond how quickly I want to be done running.

So I need music that is both upbeat and lyrically interesting so that I distract myself from how bored I am and focus on being in the moment.

My newest playlist:
Lisztomania--Phoenix
Daylight--Matt&Kim
Absolutely Still--BTE
Little Secrets--Passion Pit
Yeah Yeah--Matt&Kim
Sick Muse--Metric
Satellite Skin--Modest Mouse
Lasso--Phoenix
Good Ol'Fashioned Nightmare--Matt&Kim
Gold Guns Girls--Metric
Golden Age--TV on the Radio
Off That--Jay-Z feat. Jimmy (well..Drake--I refuse to call him that, though)
All in--BTE

I am going to take this for a test drive tonight and see how it works.

1 comment:

Amy said...

If it does work well, would you mind burning me a copy? That would all be new music to me, and you know I need inspiration. ;-)