A bunch of your recommendations found their way onto my iPod and this playlist so I wanted to be sure to share it with you guys.
I hope you find a new song or two that you enjoy!
Half Marathon Playlist
- Melanie Amaro – Don’t Fail Me Now – I take the “feet don’t fail me now” lyrics quite literally when I run to this song.
- Rudimental feat. John Newman – Feel the Love – It is ridiculously hard for me not to sing the chorus of this song out loud, but since they repeat it approximately 10,000 times in this song, I try my best to refrain.
- Emeli Sande – Next to Me – She has the voice of an angel.
- Calvin Harris feat. Florence Welch – Sweet Nothing – I definitely caught Ryan singing “you’re giving me such sweet loving” in the car one day. Loving? Nothing? Same thing.
- Gossip – Heavy Cross – This is the song from the Dior commercial with Charlize Theron. Wait, you don’t download songs from television advertisements? Oh.
- Martin Solveig – Big In Japan – Ridiculously catchy.
- Bingo Players – Cry Just a Little
- Scatman John – Scatman – I may never understand the words to this song.
- The Temptations – Ain’t Too Proud to Beg
- Pitbull ft. T-Pain – Hey Baby
- Hercules – Zero to Hero
- Moby – Natural Blues – This song is rather slow in the beginning, but it picks up as it continues and I always find myself getting really into it.
- Usher – Scream
- Yellowjackets – Wavin’ Flag – A little acappella music for some variety!
- Taylor Swift – I Knew You Were Trouble – Shame on me now.
- K’naan – Better – The lyrics that say “I’m only getting better” remind me to push myself and try to improve on every run.
- Black Box – Strike It Up
- PJ Loughran – Shoebox – I couldn’t find a quality YouTube video for this song, but you can listen to it in iTunes. It’s a song my friend Ryan put on a CD for me in high school that I’ve loved ever since!
- Salt n Pepa – Shoop
- Hercules – The Gospel Truth
- Evanescence – Bring Me to Life
- Manian – Ravers in the UK – Taken from a previous BodyPump release! Major pump up music.
- Destiny’s Child – No, No, No
- Macklemore feat. Wanz – Thrift Shop – This song is horrible in the best way possible. I sing “this is f-ing awesoooome” aloud as I run when this song comes on to try to remind myself that running a half marathon is pretty f-ing awesome.
- Usher ft. Will.I.Am – OMG
- Basshunter – Now You’re Gone
- Loleatta Halloway – Love Sensation
- Basshunter – All I Ever Wanted
Enjoy!
Good luck on your half tomorrow! I’ll be running my 4th in October!! I’m going to certainly steal some of your ideas for my playlist!
RUN LIKE YOU STOLE IT!
Jenny@thewellnessjourneyblog
I love when Kelly Clarkson’s song “Stonger” plays on pandora during runs (and workouts)! Especially the line “what doesn’t kill you makes a fighter, footsteps even lighter”
totally makes me feel like I’m Rocky and I have such LIGHT FEET! Definitely a nice reminder when running and the lead feet feeling start up!
Dee
Great playlist! I downloaded the Geico commercial music! It’s actually a good song! Rockwell’s “Somebody’s Watching Me”
beka @ rebecca roams
GOOD LUCK TOMORROW! I can’t wait to hear how it goes!
PattiR
I use honey and cinnamon with almond or soy milk! Light Agave syrup is good too.
Good luck with your marathon this weekend! We know you’re going to kick butt!
Katie
Good luck with that race!! I love the Herc, “Go the Distance” is my fav of his songs. DIsney music in general just rocks it out. And I have Basshunter on mine too. I swear I just get the urge to dance midrun when it comes on. So I just run faster. Sort of the same thing?
Emily @ FitMamaInTheCity
GOOD LUCK, JULIE!!! YOU ARE GOING TO ROCK IT!!!
STRENGTH!!!!
Trina
Thank you, Trina!!
Julie @ Peanut Butter Fingers
I feel slightly loserish because I only recognize like 4 of those songs….eeek!
Best of luck – you are going to be great!!!
Megan @ Fiterature
Have fun tomorrow! Can’t wait to hear all about it!
Melanie @ beautifullynutty
You’ll do great! Best wishes to you tomorrow.
Lauren
GOOOOOOOD Luck tomorrow – you’ll do great! Love Ravers in the UK – such a PUMP UP song.
Katie @ running4cupcakes
Good luck with the race!
sara @ fitcupcaker
I LOVE that Thriftshop is on there! When I first heard it I was like WTF is this? Then I shiftily looked around and turned the volume up. Love it!
Courtney
Good Luck to you tomorrow!! Know I will be thinking and praying that all goes well! Can’t wait to hear all about about it! ;0) I sure look forward to your post everyday! I think your pretty special!
Helen
Um I love the song Gossip from the commercial, I frequently catch the boyfriend singing it too! Good Luck tomorrow!!!
Sarah J
Nicely done!! Yay good luck tomorrow!!!
Sarah
I am laughing out loud at Shoop! WOW- talk about some Jr. High memories!!
Nicole B.
Can I just say how much I LOVE that you have Hercules songs on here! I listen to Zero to Hero on my workout playlist and it surprisingly gets me really pumped up. Its just hard to not bust out singing or dancing when Im workin out. : )
Sara
i’m surprised you don’t listen to more country! you seem like a country music kinda gal!
Brooke
Fantastic playlist! I love working out to Basshunter! Can never get enough. Good luck tomorrow!
whitney
Julie! Thank you SO much for posting this! I am running my first 1/2 in March and I am in the process of building my playlist! Trying to make sure I get songs that actually motivate me! Add…delete…add…delete! I’m sure you know how that goes!
GOOD LUCK TOMORROW!!!
Amy Risner
Good luck tomorrow. I am certain that you will do great!
Hannah @ CleanEatingVeggieGirl
Good luck
Bek @ Crave
Why is it that T-Swift makes such good running music??? I don’t know, but I ain’t complainin’!
Avery @ Southern Belle Living Well
Good luck tomorrow! Run like the wind!
Also, Big in Japan also includes Dragonette, an awesome Canadian indie band, Check them out, the songs are so catchy!
Tara @ In Every Condition
I’m glad I’m not the only one obsessed with the Hercules soundtrack. Best of luck tomorrow–you’ll be great!
Tiffany
Good luck with the race!
Khushboo
I am training for my second half, 8 weeks away now, and just got strep throat along with a nasty cold, have you ever been sick in the middle of training? And how did you manage to pick back up where you left off after being sidelined ?? I’m nervous im going to lose my momentum I had going. Good luck tomorrow!
Samantha
Oh I definitely get songs from commercials
I still remember when I first heard “Pink Moon” by Nick Drake in a VW commercial about 10 years ago – that’s some pretty good advertising, I’d say. I love I Knew You Were Trouble – that song definitely makes me want to move, and so does 22. Thrift Shop is so great, and has a hilarious music video if you haven’t seen it. Good luck tomorrow, Julie – you’re going to do great!!
Stephanie @ Legally Blinde
Good luck this morning!!!!!! All that hard work is going to pay off, just go out and enjoy the run! Nothing better than the energy of a big race
Val
LOVE the Hercules music and Ravers in the UK is a great one! Good luck! Run fast!
Mallory @ Mal’s Miles
You got this Julie! You go girl!!!!!!!!!!!
Jackie W
Good luck today, Julie!!!
Danica @ It’s Progression
Thanks for all the song suggestions! I started looking them up on spotify, and it made me laugh when Rudimental feat. John Newman – Feel the Love ended and immediately Can You Feel the Love Tonight from the Lion King started playing.
Allison
Thank you for posting this! I have been in need of new songs for running, and I haven’t heard of a lot of these! I will check them out. Good luck on your half marathon!
Sara @ sarasmiles
Where is Gangnam Style?! Haha….just kidding. Love that you have Disney and Taylor Swift on the playlist
Good luck in your race!
Kate
Thanks for sharing your playlist, Julie! Have a great race!
Carrie @ Fitness and Frozen Grapes
I totally get songs from advertisements, haha! The best one is “Powerful Stuff” by Sean Hayes from the Hyundai commercial. It’s actually a great song to run to. I love listening to relaxing stuff with really good beats like Mumford and Sons. Makes me a happy runner!
Claire @ Health Nut Claire
I am a fairly new “PB Fingers” reader, but I wanted to say I love your blog! I have been making and loving some of your smoothie recipes! And I also wanted to wish you best of luck in your half marathon today! I’m about to start training for my fourth half marathon, and your playlist is helping me pick some awesome new songs for my training runs!! Thanks
Caitlin
Thanks for posting this!! I already have most of the songs but there are some newbies in there that I just checked out. I update my playlist all the time because I get song ADD!
Hayley @ Running on Pumpkin
Is there a cheaper way to download songs than iTunes??? It’s over a buck per song and really adds up….
Jen
Good luck tomorrow!
I am absolutely going to steal alot of your playlist – I NEED NEW MUSIC!!
TorontoRunner
Ha! I’m right with you on “Thrift Shop”. It’s a guilty-pleasure song.
I kind of like the silliness of it. I don’t usually like that genre, but for some reason, that one stuck. Maybe because it’s so catchy?
Holly Jo
i just started a blog about music and movies so check it out if you like music and movies!
http://mediamondayz.blog.com/
aley
Thrift shop is my running guilty pleasure too! Check out “And We Danced” by Macklemore – equally horrible but hilariously awesome!
Kaleigh
I am a little late on commenting on this post but I am running the Carlsbad half tomorrow morning and am updating my playlist with some of your songs and wanted to give you a couple suggestions that always get my blood pumping. Maybe for your next half??!!
Titanium (feat Sia) by David Guetta, E.T. by Katy Perry, Coming Home by Diddy Dirty-Money, Somebody that I used to know by Gotye….I could keep going and going!
Heather Hurt
Okay one more…Marchin on by Timbaland. Really keeps you going!
Heather
Um, this is such a great playlist! A few of these songs I have heard but couldn’t for the life of me figure out who sang them!! Thanks!
Dana
THANK YOU!!! I ran theNYC Half Marathon yesterday and this playlist was incredible–I ran stronger, more consistently and faster than ever! Thanks so much.
Andrea