We’re more than halfway through the streak, and with the weather getting chillier and everything else going on—holiday stress, Omicron, cold season making you get tested because you think it’s Omicron
One thing that keeps me motivated is listening to music. Months ago, I endured 45 minutes of a playlist by deputy test editor Jeff Dengate to see Sales & Deals. It was a long time accession, but I’m finally sharing my run playlist.
For me, music is deeply personal. I was that friend who gifted “mixtapes,” which in retrospect is pretty obnoxious. I approached making these CDs like I was creating a storyline, a soundtrack to a movie in my head.
I used to listen to the raspy crooning voice of Courtney Love during my high school cross country days, and sweeping film scores with dramatic build-ups (anything by John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Howard Shore) in college. Currently, most of my songs are from my Spotify Discover Weekly, a mishmash of genres from synthpop to, appropriately, shoegaze.
A Running Playlist to Energize Your Month Hounds of Love by The Futureheads, Races & Places Alexa Melo’s Idioteque was a peppier version of the song by Radiohead. No playlist—running, driving, kitchen dancing—is complete without Angel Olsen and Sharon Van Etten. I have a soft spot for M83 because a song of theirs played on tag us on. Watch the Boston Marathon The Best Songs to Add to Your Playlist This Month.
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Amanda is a test editor at Runner’s World who has run the Boston Marathon every year since 2013; she's a former professional baker with a master’s in gastronomy and she carb-loads on snickerdoodles.
