How is everyone? Training on track? Hmmm… Perhaps you’re in the middle of school summer holidays and trying to juggle even more than you usually do. Whatever you’re up to, here’s something to motivate you and get you in the mood for some great running.
I want to know your favourite running tunes of all time.
Rock, Pop, Country, Hip-Hop, Jazz, R&B.. come on .. let’s ‘ave ‘em 
Here’s the competition bit!
Fancy winning a super iPod Shuffle packed with tunes? .. you do? You’ll also win a pair of VIP tickets to the Royal Parks Foundation Half Marathon. To make sure you have a really Royal time on the day, the VIP tent is right next to the start/finish line and open all day – so you can fill up with your free courtesy breakfast and then a delicious buffet lunch, with massage and physio experts available to pamper you after the race!
Here’s how to enter the ‘Mind Music’ Competition:
- Join Mind’s Team for the Royal Parks Foundation Half Marathon in October 2011 by clicking here
- Then add a track to the ‘Just One More Mile‘ Top Running Tunes playlist by adding a comment below or on the Facebook page – tell me the song title, who sings it and why you like it..oh yes, and I need to know who you are!
- The best suggestion will be picked by yours truly once the competition closes at 12 noon 26th August 2011 and will help make up Mind’s final ultimate running playlist to be hosted on Spotify
As a very keen runner, I also have as much of an interest in music and despite trying to run my races without music I still feel educated enough, with a wide ranging musical taste, to provide the odd tune, motivational masterpiece and guilty pleasure to increase my tempo or put a smile on my face.
Highlights from my running playlist include MK Ultra by Muse, The Trooper by Iron Maiden a d Knucklebones by Dave Lee Roth. The latter puts a smile on my face and reminds me of the moment my brother, belting it out from his mark two ford escort, overtook on a bend and somehow missed the car coming in the opposite direction. Luckily the vehicle was unharmed as it was a fine example of a car that was 15 years old in the early nineties. Knucklebones is probably an apt name for my brothers actions on that day, or should that be knuckle head? But for me, the one piece of music that gets my pulse racing, which really connects with my love for running is the theme tune to Rocky. Who can not think that has a place on every running playlist. It would certainly be my first choice! So, there you go. It does not start to break the surface of the love I have for music. Oh, and for that guilty pleasure. Raining Men by The Weather Girls