The Best Motivational Music for Running

Some of my greatest memories are tied to good motivational music. It’s amazing how much music is linked to our mood and memory… Motivational Music can have a crazy transforming effect. Last summer I signed on to run the Bone to Back a 40 mile relay race with some girlfriends. I was assigned to run at about 12 noon with a couple pretty steep hills and very little down hill breaks. I tagged off from the previous runner and got down to it! It was stinking hot!!! I was dying, as I set my iPod to shuffle and put feet to pavement. That dang shuffle must of thought I was in a mellow chill mood cause it kept playing John Mayer and Dave Matthews!! The music was literately sucking the life out of me. Don’t get me wrong John and Dave are a couple of my fav guys but not when I’m trying to survive a 5 mile run in the blistering heat. Did I mention how much I hate the controls on the iPod shuffle headphones. I kept trying to double click past the snooze fest and on to one of my more motivational running jams… It kept wanting to pause or replay the song not skip it!! I was getting pretty frustrated, it was going to be a long five miles if this was the case. Finally after a couple very long and slow miles I finally got a break and some better jams came on lifting me out of my doldrums and into a quicker pace! I finished my leg with as much gusto as I could manage in the crazy heat  jamming out to some Katy Perry firework! Much better! So I ask the question? What are some of your favorite jams for getting your work out on!!?! I have listed a couple of my favorite workout playlists!! But feel free to list some of yours! Motivational Music can inspire and increase your performance and make that run or workout that much more bearable!

In fact there are real stats out there that prove Motivational Music can help you ROCK your next run!