I had to take a hiatus from running when I was dealing with the respiratory ick (and then a bout of flu – or something like it – does one really care what it’s called when one feels as if they were run over by a truck? No, I thought not). To celebrate my return to it (and to acknowledge that I had grown weary of the last playlist and had sort of mucked with it and ended up playing one song over and over again because it got me going due mostly to novelty, which was wearing off), I cobbled a new one together. It’s not quite as long as the last one, but since I’m more or less getting my groove back, I’m only doing about 2/3 the distance I was at formerly (“And that’s OK,” I keep telling myself more or less firmly. No, that whole “reality” thing isn’t going over so well, why do you ask?).
Anyway, mostly because I think this might amuse my more musically-minded friends, here it is:
We Used to Be Friends – The Dandy Warhols: A theme song to a neo-noir teen mystery series. Yep. It’s a nice walking pace for my warmup, and I think it’s really catchy. Some might detect a certain girl-power theme to a lot of my running tunes, and they wouldn’t be wrong.
Gunpowder & Lead – Miranda Lambert:Â Ahem – did someone say girl power?
Read About Love – Richard Thompson: Irony? What irony? I haven’t an earthly idea what you’re talking about…
Help Me, Suzanne – Rhett Miller: I picked this up on a Paste magazine sampler disc – it’s got a nice mid-run beat that reminds me not to blow out too early.
Don’t You Evah – Spoon: This is when I start to get a little tired, and this tune gives me mental images of Keepon. It’s hard to let your pace flag when you’re imagining a curious, bebopping Peep:
She’s My Man – Scissor Sisters: If it’s hard to let up when you have a mental image of Keepon, it’s even harder to feel tired to this song.
Fill Me Up – Shawn Colvin: A nice bouncy walk home (well, by then I’ve usually blown myself out by running pretty hard to the Sisters, so I’m not so bouncy. Tosh is usually still bouncy enough for the both of us, though).
Any favorite exercise tunes?