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Songs I Listened to When I Ran a Marathon That One Time
Songs I Listened to When I Ran a Marathon That One Time
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Songs I Listened to When I R...
Wake Up
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This song was featured in the Season 4 finale of BoJack Horseman, of course, but it’s also great when you’re piling up those easy miles.
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Free
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Extremely popular songs are also good sometimes! This is an absolute banger on a run. When I refer to this band in person, I invariably call it “Florence PLUS the Machine.” This has never elicited a smile or laugh, and it never will.
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Cold Reactor
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And maybe I'll go missing in the rain If God is in the mountain, he won't answer me a single question Like, "Why does everybody feel the same?" The slow degeneration and the crying out, "Oh, Lord, have mercy"
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Mayday
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The frenetic Morse code beeping that recurs throughout the song is a real "pick-me-up" when you're on Mile 16 or so.
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Go!
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This song's lyrics, comprised of the audio from the Apollo 11 moon landing, contain the line "1202 alarm [...] We're go on that alarm?" The 1202 alarm indicated that the guidance computer was overloaded with tasks. Margaret Hamilton, the software engineer who worked on the guidance computer (and also literally created the term "software engineering"), anticipated this and programmed the computer to deprioritize lower-priority tasks and prioritize high-priority tasks (like landing on the moon). This is a great song, but it's also a great running song because your body is going to send you a lot of 1202 alarms. One of the goals of a good training regimen is to understand which alarms should make you stop, and which alarms are a "Go!"
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