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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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January’s Playlist To Make Running Suck Less: Freeze Yer Gizzard Blizzard Edition!

January 29, 2016 by Tara Jenson 1 Comment

January in Minnesota is one of those times and places that humans imprisoned therein come up with all sorts of shenanigans 1 to maintain our white-knuckled grip on sanity and keep at bay the voices whispering that we should just walk out across the frozen lake at 2 am in -10F in our skivvies and never look back. For those in pursuit…

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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…

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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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