I'm going with 2025 Running Playlist.
I cultivate new playlists for each running season. This is the first time that two songs haven't carried over - and had been on all my previous ones. But I try to change it up to keep me interested - which is a tall order, I might add.
The tendency is to skew more towards the Rock genre, and usually male driven at that. It usually keeps a better pace. And I should say, I only use music on the treadmill or in races. Rarely in ourdoor training do I even bother with it. Still, I think it helps me both focus and keeps me distracted at the same time - just in different ways.
For a while I've been trying to weave some R.E.M. into my playlist and it's been very hit or miss. I usually delete whatever track I'd chosen, but this last go-round I have a picked a winner.
"Pretty Persuasion" from the band's second disk, Reckoning, and honestly, it's one of my favourite songs of theirs. Why it never occurred to me to include it earlier is beyond me, but it truly works.
When it finally made its way through the rotation at the Glass City Half, I was passed a l-o-n-g stretch of huge speakers that were blaring something off Thriller, which drowned out half of the R.E.M song playing right in my ear. That said, I didn't really get to hear it while running until the Cleveland Half two weeks ago. And the song truly works for pacing.
I always feel Mike Mills' backing vocals were undervalued by the listening public, but I think they truly made the band.
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