It's the second explosion Read more

Don't give a second thought to the haters of your playlists - if it's motivating you to meet your exercise goals and live healthier, then that's the ultimate. May I suggest some songs I have on my running playlist: Read more

Also good for running: almost anything by the Ramones. Most of their songs are pretty short, so a bunch of their songs in a playlist works for me.

I'm glad to see that someone else gets their run time pumpage from the cream of their 2001-2004 playlists. Seen in the rear view mirror, those were some of the best years of my life and it's good to be able to put myself back there for a few minutes at a time when I'm gutting out some shitty hill that's peppering my… Read more

I listen to podcasts or comedy albums. I've lost 20 lbs. in the past 3 months running, and I wasn't particularly overweight to begin with, just trying to get fitter. Songs are great for lifting, since you are starting and stopping alot with multiple exercises. Running requires you to get lost in your thought to… Read more

Sean, I totally get the feelings you had at your 5K (in both senses of the word). There are times when I wait in the starting corrals of races and I will start getting all watery-eyed and blubbery for no apparent reason. I thought maybe I'd be over that after 10 years of running, but probably not. Read more

Thanks for putting all the song names in bold, so I could skim past the boring parts about your life. Read more

The Rat is such an amazing song. I wish the Walkmen would ditch the art rock and do some more punk. Just a couple of songs per album, or maybe just one album of all punk. Read more

This dude has a negative attitude. I was going to leave something positive here, but I can see from his comments about weight lifting and people "running at stop lights" that he's not truly interested in understanding the real science behind some of this stuff...You're going to plateau at some point with what you are… Read more

Rage Against The Machine's self-titled album is the tits. Read more

running is just awful... Read more

Nice feature. I am going down the same path (half-ironman 9 weeks away using a training plan I found online; lost 70+ lbs recently; hate people who jog at stoplights). I go through the exact same emotions. Read more

For a driving beat that's good for my pace (but may suck for yours), check out Volbeat's "A Warrior's Call."
Did my first 1/2 marathon last year, but didn't properly train for it. Those long runs pay off, even if they're done at an easy pace. I'd done 3hr long duathlons, and assumed that going hard for that long on a… Read more

From one fatass to another, as long as you have some type of upbeat music to run to, you'll be fine. Just finished my second half today, and beat several non-fatasses (new word for the dictionary) and set a new PR by nearly 10 minutes. Read more

I like to run to Le Tigre—well, their first album, with "Deceptacon":

"The Rat," The Walkmen Read more