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Updated September 10, 2009

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Music can be a great motivator for running, whether you're listening to your favorite running songs playlist on your iPod or just singing workout songs in your head. Do you use playlists of running music to keep you motivated? Share your favorite running playlist here and help your fellow runners get motivated. Share Your Songs

Songs I Play In My Head In Track

-Eye of the tiger -another one bites the dust -Minority (Green Day) -Good Riddance (time of your life)*(Green Day) -Sexy and I know It (LMFAO) mostly pep band songs :D
—Guest Leigh Person

My favourite running songs

Hi, greetings... This is my fav songs when i go running ;) 1. All along the watchtower (jimi hendrix) 2. Numb/encore - jayZ/linkin park 3. Dirt on ur shoulder - jayZ/linkin park 4. The kill - 30 secs to mars 5. Closer to the edge (my fav) - 30secs to mars 6. This is war - 30secs to mars 7. Sexy and i know it - lmfao
—Guest Amin

Songs that keep me going

She wants to move - N.E.R.D Deja Vu - Beyonce ft. Jay-Z Run the World - Beyonce Misery Business - Paramore Bootylicious - Destiny's Child Brianstorm - Arctic Monkey's Sunday Morning - No Doubt Ignorance - Paramore Brick by Boring Brick - Paramore The way you move - Outkast Crank that - Soulja Boy ft. Travis Barker
—Guest Zura Om

Favorite Running Songs

1. The Time/Dirty Bit - Black Eyed Peas 2. Gold Digger - Kanye West & Jamie Foxx 3. That's not my Name - The Ting Tings 4. Roger That - Young Money 5. 7 Nation Army - White Stripes 6. Photofinnish - 3Oh!3 7. Ni**as in Paris - Kanye West & Jay-Z 8. Pump it - Black Eyed Peas 9. Opposite of Adults - Chiddy Bang 10. Power - Kanye West
—Guest Caroline

Songs for Tough Runs!

1. "Run the World (Girls)" - Beyonce, 2. "Ante Up" - MOP, 3. "Turn Me Loose" Madcon, 4. "Rusty Halo" The Script, 5. "Boom Boom Pow" Black Eyed Peas
—Guest FitConvert

I have to be mad

Calm like a bomb-ratm, headstrong-trapt, my last serenade- KsE, stillborn- zakk wylde, I stand alone- godsmack, what it is to burn-finch, fixation on the darkness-KsE
—Guest Chad

Top 20 Running Songs

1. Black-Eyed-Peas: Pump It 2. Rihanna: Disturbia 3. Pink: So What 4. Cake: The Distance 5. MIA: Paper Planes 6. Outkast: Hey Ya! 7. Enur: Calabria 8. Kid Cudi: Day n Nite 9. Muse: Uprising 10. Trey Songz: Bottoms Up 11. Missy Elliott: Work It 12. Nelly: Hot in Herre 13. Rihanna: Cheers 14. Eminem: Lose Yourself 15. Nicki Minaj: Super Bass 16. The Offspring: Come Out and Play 17. The Prodigy: Breathe 18. Kanye West: Stronger 19. Jerimih: Down on Me 20. Jay-Z: Big Pimpin
—Guest Shani

Rhett's Formula

1. Run On - Moby 2. Born Too Slow - Crystal 3. Lucid Dreams - Franz Ferdinand 4. Let Me Clear My Throat - DJ Kool 5. The Distance - Cake 6. Square One - Coldplay 7. Lose Yourself - Eminem 8. Learn to Fly - Foo Fighters 9. Requiem for a Dream - Clint Mansell 10. Galvanize - The Chemical Brothers 11. Stronger - KanYe West 12. Paper Planes - M.I.A. 13. Louder (feat. Sian Evans) - DJ Fresh 14. Knights of Cydonia - Muse 15. Float On - Modest Mouse 16. B.O.B. - Outkast 17. I Need a Dollar - Aloe Blacc 18. Crazy - Gnarls Barkley 19. Headstrong - Trapt 20. Rockafeller Shank - Fatboy Slim 21. Live Your Life (feat. Rihanna) - T.I. 22. Kids With Guns - Gorillaz 23. Faint - Linkin Park 24. I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas 25. Supermassive Black Hole - Muse 26. Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand 27. Let Your Game Speak - Michael Jordan Commecial theme
—Guest Rhett

Run, Baby, Run

Hollaback Girl - Gwen Stefani Paralyzer - Finger Eleven Monday Morning - Fleetwood Mac Breathe In, Breathe Out - Bush She - Green Day Call Me - Blondie Lump - Presidents of the United States Turning Japanese - The Vapors Sabotage - Beastie Boys Cocaine - Black Crowes All She Wants to Do is Dance - Don Henley Hot N Cold - Katy Perry What's Left of the Flag - Flogging Molly Wake Me Up - Evanescence Cecelia - Simon and Garfunkel Devil's Dance Floor - Flogging Molly Watch the World Die - Everclear
—Guest AmyMB

Songs to Run To

Change - Jon Waits, Only the Young - Journey, Panama - Van Halen, Don't Change - INXS, Rio - Duran Duran, Second Chance - Shinedown, and yes...the theme from Rocky...as corny as it sounds
—Guest Lisa O'Connor

Runnings Songs

1. Dancing with Myself - Billy Idol 2. Gone Daddy Gone - Violent Femmes 3. Walkin on the Sun - Smash Mouth 4. Sheena is a Punk Rocker - Ramones 5. Rock Lobster - B52s 6. Hey Ya - Outkast 7. Sabatoge - Beastie Boys 8. Welcome to the Jungle - Guns N Roses 9. Break Ya Neck - Busta Rhymes 10. Fat Bottom Girls - Queen
—Guest Mitch Rhymer

Great running song

It may be a little fast, but totally motivating and cool for a dude... Runaway Baby by Bruno Mars.
—Guest gimmickthegnome

Running Music to Energize & Motivate

1. "Hard" - Rihanna 2. "C'mon n' Ride It" - Quad City DJs 3. "Pump It Up" - Joe Budden 4. "When I Grow Up" - Pussycat Dolls 5. "All I Do Is Win" - DJ Khaled 6. "Get By" - Talib Kweli 7. "Beggin" - Madcon 8. "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" - Jet 9. "Liar" - Madcon 10. "Pump It Up" - Elvis Costello
—Guest FitConvert

Running Songs

Follow me - uncle cracker Similey faces - Gnarks barkley Promiscous - nelly Furtado On the Floor - Jennifer Lopez/ Pit Bull Can't stop - Red hot chili peppers I love it ;-)
—Guest Fun

Hard Days Run

rediscovering the Beatles1 cd and finding every song is great for running. Even the songs I think of as quieter - Hey Jude or Eleanor Rigby - have a good beat and they get me singing along
—trice4

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