Half-Marathon Playlist

This past weekend, I ran an 8 mile training run for A Run Through Redlands half-marathon, which I plan to run in April. I was really in need of new music to keep me inspired and moving, so I made a new playlist. This should take me through my training for the race. None of these songs are necessarily “new,” but it was still a nice change from my previous list. I sorted the songs alphabetically, and put my ipod on shuffle.

• 1. All Summer Long-Kid Rock
• 2. Baby I’m A Star-Prince. Pretty much each of my playlist feature Prince, because he makes me feel like this:

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• 3. Bathwater-No Doubt
• 4. Beat It-Michael Jackson. MJ also makes each list, I like to pretend I look like this:

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• ….even though I am sure I look more like this:

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  from the 2011 LA Mizathon

• 5. Bonafied Lovin-Chromeo
• 6. Boys Boys Boys-Lady Gaga
• 7. California Love- 2 Pac
• 8. Dance With Me-112
• 9. Dancing With Myself-The Donnas
• 10.  Dead Man’s Party-Oingo Boingo
• 11. Edge of Glory-Lady Gaga
• 12. Gettin’ Over You-David Guetta
• 13. Headsprung-LL Cool J
• 14. HoeDown ThrowDown-Miley Cyrus
• 15. I WannaDance With Somebody-Whitney Houston
• 16. La Vie Boheme-Cast of Rent
• 17. Let’s get Loud-Jennifer Lopez
• 18. A Little Party Never Killed Nobody-Fergie (from the Great Gatsby Soundtrack)
• 19. Lovin’ Touchin’ Squeezin’-Journey
• 20. Nu Nu (Yeah Yeah)- Fannypack
• 21. Outta Control-Pitbull & Baby Bash
• 22. Pause-Pitbull
• 23. Scream-Starkillers
• 24. Scream & Shout-Britney Spears & Will.I.Am
• 25. Shimmy Shimmy Ya-Ol’ Dirty Bastard
• 26. SOS-Rihanna
• 27. Stronger-Britney Spears
• 28. Teenagers-My Chemical Romance
• 29. You’re the Best-Karate Kid soundtrack

This list is 2 hours and 2 minutes, which is a little bit shorter than I hope to finish the race in, so it should be enough to get me through my training. Sometimes, I really do like running with no music and letting my head clear with the silence, but when I start adding on the higher miles, a good song helps break up the monotony.

What are your favorite songs to run to?