After yesterday’s pretty awesome yet tough tempo workout it was time for another easy recovery day. About halfway through today I texted my husband to see if he would run with me later tonight. There are two reasons I wanted to do this.
1. I need a break from the treadmill
2. I didn’t want to die in the heat
I thought a nice evening run would be perfect, and since my husband seems to like evening runs I am looking forward to it. I will post my workout on the workout log page tonight once complete.
I thought I would talk about something very important to me when you spend a lot of your time running alone – music. Music is so important to me when I am running alone. If I reach a tough point in my workout I always will find the most upbeat song or motivational song I can and just blast it.
I thought I would share with you all some of my current favorite running songs.
1. “Let It Roll” – Flo Rida
2. “We Can’t Stop” – Miley Cyrus
3. “Bring Em Out” – T.I.
4. “The Other Side” – Jason Derulo
5. “Wild In Your Smile” – Dustin Lynch
6. “We Own It” – 2 Chainz ft. Wiz Khalifa
7. “Blurred Lines” – T.I. ft. Pharrell
8. “Highway Don’t Care” – Tim McGraw ft. Taylor Swift
9. “Runnin’ Outta Moonlight” – Randy Houser
10. “Cruise” (Remix) – Florida Georgia Line ft. Nelly
I have a play list currently of about 30 songs that I use for running, so of course there are many more. I use some of the songs when I need to just sprint it out and some when I am just cruising along. Music can certainly help keep me motivated and focused during a run.
I will leave you with a little upbeat quote that really made me happy this morning.
What are some of your favorite running or workout songs?
My best running music is by bands like Rob Zombie, Korn, Disturbed, and Eminem. So basically heavy stuff with a good beat and some melody. It’s odd because I absolutely do NOT listen to music like this unless I’m running. It’s important though, yesterday for some reason Pandora wasn’t playing nice and kept giving me bad tracks and I had a really hard run!
Haha that’s funny! It sounds like my husband when he runs he listens to Heavy metal type stuff too – but that is the only real time he listens to it!
I use Pandora or Spotify on most of my runs because I love variety and I’m too cheap to buy music. 🙂
I am addicted to “We Can’t Stop” and “Blurred Lines”……..two great jams!! Great to run to!! 🙂
I should try pandora sometime on my runs! I just always get annoyed sometimes when they don’t play songs I like 🙂 but it provides a good variety!