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February’s Playlist To Make Running Suck Less: Leap Year Edition!

February 29, 2016 by Tara Jenson 1 Comment

Happy Leap Year – this month you have an extra day to get your run on! Heading this month’s perfectly-paced running playlist is, appropriately, iSHi’s “We Run“: In addition to getting our runs this month off to a strong start, it’s also the track to which we’ve most often returned to pick up the pace on that last…

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Playlists To Make Running Suck Less: Year-End Compilation Time!

December 31, 2015 by Tara Jenson Leave a Comment

So you’ve been good this year, really good – maybe you’ve done some 5ks, some 10ks, a 10 mile, a half marathon, even a full marathon? Hell – maybe you just kept on the damn treadmill a few times a month, and that’s more than you managed last year. Whatever your victories – large or small – here’s…

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September’s Playlist To Make Running Suck Less: Yacht Rock Edition!

September 30, 2015 by Tara Jenson 2 Comments

Yeah, we know – it may seem that Yacht Rock would have been much more topical for say July’s playlist, when you actually WERE out on your yacht in boat shoes with no socks. But it’s exactly because the summer is officially over and you’ve shrink-wrapped/stowed the yacht for the season and replaced your boat…

Filed Under: Critic Tagged With: easy listening, hall & oates, jogging, jogging playlist, Kenny Loggins, Michael McDonald, playlists, running, yacht rock

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August’s Playlist To Make Running Suck Less: Smörgåsbord Edition!

August 31, 2015 by Tara Jenson Leave a Comment

We’ve got no particular theme for this month’s running playlist, just a veritable smörgåsbord of tracks to celebrate throwing off the bonds of summer’s shimmery death heat and freedom from the scent of what’s probably been a raccoon corpse slowly simmering somewhere in the vicinity of your garage. After July’s slate of tracks aimed to keep you just this side…

Filed Under: Critic Tagged With: BPM, janelle monae, jogging, miley cyrus, playlist, running

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July’s Playlist To Make Running Suck Less: 80s Edition!

July 31, 2015 by Tara Jenson 2 Comments

So you’ve been trudging through your runs this month in the swampy humidity – we feel you. That’s why this month’s running playlist isn’t as much triumphant conquering feel-the-burn feet-mover tracks as just steady-wins-the-race, the race being that you succeed in slogging through your 2 or 5 or 8 steamy miles without dying. Let it…

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June’s Playlist To Make Running Suck Less: Country & Bluegrass Edition!

June 26, 2015 by Tara Jenson 2 Comments

This month’s running playlist is borne on the wings of steel guitars, banjos and fiddles. That’s right y’all – throw on your shit-kickers, grab your hound-dog and broken heart, then giddyap with this country & bluegrass playlist that’ll drive your pace like cattle to pasture! We know this isn’t an exhaustive list of runnable country…

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May’s Playlist To Make Running Suck Less!

May 29, 2015 by Tara Jenson 1 Comment

This month’s hand-plucked and running-tested 75-85/150-170 BPM playlist is brought to you in part by Pitchfork’s Top 200 Tracks of the 90s list, plus a few picks from Spotify’s handy New Music Tuesdays playlist, plus the usual smattering of other special nice running time, metronome-tastic tracks. As always, tl;dr to cut straight to the list!…

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April’s Playlist To Make Running Suck Less: Classical Edition!

April 30, 2015 by Tara Jenson Leave a Comment

This month’s 75-85/150-170 BPM running list is all classical, instrumental and/or soundtrack, all the time. Perhaps you aren’t interested in classical-leaning music on even your best, most pretentious days. Well, we promise this playlist won’t put you to sleep AND is a great running playlist. You might even grow some classical love in the process.…

Filed Under: Critic Tagged With: BPM, bugs bunny, classical, flowing man hair, jogging, music, natalie portman, running, spotify playlist, star wars, swan lake, the planets, yanni

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This Month’s Playlist To Make Running Suck Less

March 30, 2015 by Tara Jenson Leave a Comment

Welcome to another installment of Playlists To Make Running Suck Less – a compiled, culled and collated 156-176 (or 78×2 – 88×2) BPM playlist! This playlist provides about an hour’s worth of metronoming your running stride (that is, if your stride is somewhere in the ballpark of 5′ 8″ with a 32″ inseam) and drowning…

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Hate Running? BPM Yourself Into A Mindless Running Machine!

February 25, 2015 by Tara Jenson 1 Comment

Last year under influence of some wild hair (probably a gray one), and after running one of those nonsense urban 5k excuse-to-drink-beer events, I started running sporadic and entirely unserious miles here and there. Picking up running was initially a joyless and mostly miserable series of bloody-minded slogs, usually to the dulcet sounds of public radio. What can…

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