But you have to find the part of your soul that can still do this. If you’re running to alleviate stress, boredom or to get out of a funk, music can help. starts to get stale.Note: Our list of the best running songs is not ranked in order. It’s basically the early Hamilton, reminding us not to blow our shot. “Dream until your dreams come true.” And you build strength as you go. Songs that distract you when the going gets tough, inspire you when you need that extra push, and celebrate with you when you get to the top of the hill and are flying downwards with the wind at your back. We’re runners now. Do you listen to music when you run?

and the top 40 lists can’t get enough of these right now. If my phone dies while I’m in the middle of a run I just flop to the ground and curl up in a ball until the appropriate amount of hours go by for someone to file a missing person’s report.


The intro is epic and it makes you anticipate the beat drop (which flows into an upbeat tune that will keep you on a steady pace). Everything you need to get your energy up when the mid-run slump starts to kick in.Mid-run you need something loud, bold, and pop-y. You need someone who knows how it feels, man. You need a song that makes it clear you really are turning over a new leaf. “Eye of the Tiger” really recounts the epic journey you just went on, you know? Get it!There’s nothing like a good hip hop track to inspire a badass run. And that’s not just the preamble to an E.L. James novel. We’ve created a hip hop running playlist with everything from staples like Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” (mom’s spaghetti!) Seriously, 90 percent of my running motivation is music-based.

There’s a reason that “Baba O’Riley” is on basically every “best running song ever” list. Whoa.Anyway, check out our list of the top 100 running songs the next time your Spotify/Sound Cloud/Amazon Music/YouTube/Apple Music/My Space (JT!) Which is why crafting the perfect running playlist is both serious business and tough work. It slows to a crawl at the beginning. Tiger eyes!It’s time to bring it f*cking home. I mean, you’re doing your best. This is hard. It’s just feminism.Time to get back to a sprint!
Get ready to run and/or line dance. Ease into it, but don’t keep it easy for yourself the whole time.

You made it through the darkest of the night. You’re ready.It’s great when a song tells you literally to keep running. It’s motivating, it’s fun, it’s insane. All your dreams are going to come true. These songs will get you (and keep you!) ), we’d suggest these songs for long and steady runs. Never!Imma let you finish, but Kanye has the greatest running songs of all time. You know what’s coming next and you’re pumped about it.New songs, too, can have an emotional benefit. Like the song, you’re feeling very emotional and, you think, you can keep doing this. Shake it off. The clapping and music dropouts will have you yell-singing as you cruise down the sidewalk (which won’t scare people around you. Perfect.It’s time for a song with lyrics that scream the word THUNDER at you.

Weight loss! These country favorites feature sassy southerners like Miranda Lambert and artists who deliver smash hit after country smash hit, like Florida Georgia Line. No one will help you. Researchers speculate that this comes from the anticipatory pleasure of your familiarity with a song. Running friends! We’ve got some of that for you. Classic! There’s Interestingly, it’s specifically released right before the peak emotional moment of songs. Shake it off.