21 degrees
mississippi river road bike path
What was I thinking about while I was running today? I wish I could remember. Maybe it was just: I’m tired and my throat hurts from breathing in the cold air.
Tag: no headphones
jan 13/4 MILES
2 degrees/feels like -6
minnehaha creek path/mississippi river road bike path
Of course, just after proclaiming on the about page that “I love running outside in the cold,” I ran outside in the cold and didn’t really love it. It felt colder than -6. My hands were freezing for the first two miles and it was hard to breathe through my nose. I suppose it didn’t help that I was listening to the audio book for Murakami’s What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and he was describing his miserable experience in the second half of an all day (62 mile!) race that he endured years ago just as I was feeling my most miserable. Maybe next time I’ll listen to a running playlist instead.
Running Playlist
Sometimes I listen to audio books, occasionally I don’t listen to anything, but most of the time I listen to music while I’m running. Cheesy music. Nostalgic music. Music that only makes sense when I’m running. Over the five 1/2 years that I’ve been running, I’ve created a lot of playlists and listened to a lot of music. Here’s the current one:
- Hey Ladies/Beasties Boys
- Furr/Blitzen Trapper
- The Raiders March/John Williams
- Don’t Stop Me Now/Queen
- Happy/Pharell Williams
- Without You/feat. Usher
- Skyfall/Adele
- Sorry/Justin Bieber
- Get Lucky/Daft Punk
- Ride Like the Wind/Christopher Cross
- Cheap Thrills/Sia
- I Made it Through the Rain/Barry Manilow
- Back in Black/ACDC
- I’m Going to Go Back There Someday/Gonzo
- ABC/The Jacksons
- The Best of Times/Styx
- The Distance/Cake
- Video/India Arie
- Roar/Katy Perry
- Ordinary People/John Legend
- Learn to Fly/Foo Fighters
- Gonna Fly Now (Theme for Rocky)/Bill Conti
- Don’t Dream it’s Over/Crowded House
- Big Shot/Billy Joel
- Pinball Number Count: 4/Pointer Sisters
- Uptown Funk/feat. Bruno Mars
- Hollaback Girl/Gwen Stefani
- I’m Still Standing/Elton John
- Summer Breeze/Seals & Crofts
- Firework/Katy Perry
- Another One Bites the Dust/Queen
- Baby/Justin Bieber
- Hot for Teacher/Van Halen
Very eclectic. No logical order and attention to pace here. Just songs that, at some point in my life, I have loved and want to listen to again. I usually put this list on shuffle.
Since I’ve been using this one for a while, it’s probably time to create a new one. Two requirements: it must have Barry Manilow and at least one Muppet song on it. I’m thinking “Copacabana” and “Can You Picture That.”