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…


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

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

May’s Playlist To Make Running Suck Less!
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!…