I don’t usually listen to music when I’m running outside – something I picked up from a hardcore marathon/triathloner at a camp I worked at one summer. I just enjoy my weird trippy running thoughts (BuzzFeed’s 75 Thoughts Every Runner Has While Out For A Run is pretty accurate) and the sound of my own labored breathing. On the Evil Treadmill, however, music is a must. I think if my running playlist could really speak my truth during a long run, it would go a little something like this:

It Begins

Here I Go Again – Whitesnake

I don’t know where I’m going, but I sure know where I’ve been…

 

Boom Clap – Charli XCX

Boom, clap, sound of my heart, the beat goes on and on and on and on and…

 

Starting to Warm Up

Push It – Salt-N-Pepa

Push it real good.

 

Work It – Missy Elliott

 

Hills…

One Way or Another – Blondie

I’ll getcha, I’ll getcha.

 

Eye of the Tiger – Survivor

 

Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

 

The Dark Night of the Soul

Running on Empty – Jackson Browne

Running blind…

 

Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want – The Smiths

For once in my life, let me get what I want. Lord knows it would be the first time.

 

The Sound Of Silence – Simon & Garfunkel

Hello darkness, my old friend…

 

Second Wind

Hooked on a Feeling – Blue Suede

I’m high on believin’.

(Also: is this song a little racist?)

 

Doin’ It Right – Daft Punk

And we’re feelin’ alright.

 

Get Ready – The Temptations

Get ready, cuz here I come.

 

Made It!

The Man – Aloe Blacc

Go ahead and tell everybody, I’m the man, I’m the man, I’m the man. Yes I am, yes I am, yes I am.

 

This is How We Do – Katy Perry

Sucking real bad at Mariah Karaoke.

 

One More Time

Music’s got me feelin’ so free.

 

Listen to the full More Accurate playlist here, and let me know what you think!