Throwback Tunesday

Who’s to say that Tunesday has to happen on a Tuesday? Not this girl, that’s for sure.

My friend Kelly suggested that I start linking the playlists that I make on here to real life playlists that readers could listen to. Great idea! She suggested using 8tracks, but either I am technologically challenged or 8tracks hates me (or both), and I couldn’t figure out how to upload my playlists :(

Luckily, I think I figured out a decent alternative. I love Spotify for listening to music on my computer, and I know some people use Spotify premium to listen to music on other devices, so I’ve begun creating my playlists in Spotify.

Today’s playlist is a medley of some of my favorite songs to sing along to from the ‘90’s and ‘00’s. As such, I’m calling it Throwback Tunesday, and you can listen here.

Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It	Will Smith
Everybody – Backstreet’s Back	The Backstreet Boys
Crazy	Britney Spears
Tearin’ Up My Heart	N Sync
Fantasy	Mariah Carey
Mambo No. 5	Lou Bega
Wannabe	Spice Girls
Waiting for Tonight	Jennifer Lopez
…Baby One More Time	Britney Spears
Jumpin’ Jumpin’	Destiny’s Child
I’ll Be There For You	The Rembrandts
B.O.B.	OutKast
Yeah!	Usher
Lose Control	Missy Elliot
Roses	OutKast

I’m going to work to get all of my playlists uploaded into my Spotify account for your listening pleasure.
Mostly guilty listening pleasure, let’s be honest.

Sunday runday

On Sunday, I ran 4.5 miles. My first mile was a swift 8:08, which was pretty exciting, because I don't think I've ever ran a mile that fast? I did warn all of you that I was slow. Anyways, the cool thing about 8:08 is that it means I know that I can run a sub-eight minute mile... and that is pretty exciting.

About a mile and a half in, it started raining lightly. I found it to be pretty refreshing, until the sky opened up and just poured. I was running and laughing and thoroughly enjoying this summer storm when I thought about making a playlist about rain!

Well, weather in general really. But the thought came from having Hunter Hayes' Storm Warning come on my iPod in the middle of a downpour.

So here's an upbeat playlist for your rainy runs. Enjoy!

Tunesday: Tunes that got me through a rough run

This morning started with a six mile run with my dad. If I'm being honest, it was miserable, and mostly because I got inside my own head and psyched myself out.

Because we slept in until 9:15 and didn't start running until 9:45, we missed the cooler weather that would have been afforded to us had we run at the planned time of 8:00 AM. So, it was hot. And my knee hurt. And my ankle hurt. And we were slow.

Like I said, I got inside my head.

Luckily, my iPod was playing all the right tunes to get me through a rough run, and we finished six hot-and-sweaty miles.

Enjoy!:



Taylor Swift - We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together

Jason Mraz - You and I Both

Carrie Underwood - This Time

Darius Rucker - This

Hunter Hayes - Storm Warning

Josh Turner - All Over Me

Kenny Chesney - Keg in the Closet

Nicki Minaj - Starships

Jason Derulo - It Girl

Jessie James - Wanted

Katy Perry - Last Friday Night

Train - Save Me, San Francisco

Tristan Prettyman - Madly

Carbon Leaf - Life Less Ordinary

Gavin DeGraw - Follow Through

John Mayer - No Such Thing

Mat Kearney - Ships in the Night

SMASH Cast version of Cheers (Drink To That)

Jessica Andrews - More to Me Than You

Confession: I have terrible taste in music.

Sometimes, when I'm about to go for a run, I get this desire to reload my iPod with new music.

Typically, I Google "good songs to run to" and I get lots of playlists full of, you guessed it, good songs to run to. So then I go to the website, and I scroll down the list, and I see nothing I like! Or, I see things I like, and then I visualize myself running to them, and they just don't fit.

Which has led me to this conclusion: I have terrible taste in music.

I guess I'd describe my musical taste as: mostly country mixed with mainstream pop and easy listening, a few hip-hop/rap songs, and then the occasional burst of Billy Joel and/or the Eagles.

In other words: full of guilty pleasures. Only I guess they can't really be called guilty pleasures if they all fall into that category, right?

Essentially, I listen to songs that make me want to either sing or dance along while I'm running. And they've gotta make me smile.

So, for those of you who share my musical leanings and are looking for a playlist you'd actually like to work out to, here's what I ran to today. Enjoy:

Animal/Neon Trees

What Doesn't Kill You/Kelly Clarkson

Live a Little/Kenny Chesney

It Girl/Jason Derulo

Hey Mama/Mat Kearney

Work Out/J. Cole

Storm Warning/Hunter Hayes

She's Like Texas/Josh Abbott Band

Rock & Roll/Eric Hutchinson

Only the Good Die Young/Billy Joel

Call Me Maybe/Carly Rae Jepsen

...and now you know why if you see me out running, I probably look like I'm dancing and/or playing the air drums with my fingers. I'm okay with it.