Forty-Five Things Friday (Playlist)

Last weekend I ran the Zooma Annapolis Half Marathon. 🙂

One of the last things I did to get ready was to create a long, kick-ass playlist to get me over that bridge (twice). I used jog.fm to find some new songs keyed to a 8:00-9:00 min/mile pace, but mostly made a new mix from my existing playlists. Here’s what I came up with:

My Zooma Playlist
Good Thing–Fine Young Cannibals 
Best Friend–The Beat/The English Beat
Too Bad About Your Girl–The Donnas
Girlfriend–Avril Lavigne 
Runaway Baby–Bruno Mars 
Move Ya Baby–Various Artists Funky Step
DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love–Usher 
Break Your Heart–Taio Cruz & Ludacris 
Higher–Taio Cruz 
Boom Boom Pow–Black Eyed Peas 
Party All the Time–Black Eyed
London Bridge–Fergie 
Walking On Sunshine–Aly & AJ 
Only Girl (In the World)–Rihanna 
Don’t Stop the Music–Rihanna 
I Kissed a Girl–Katy Perry 
Hot N Cold–Katy Perry 
Bulletproof–La Roux 
Sexy Chick–David Guetta 
We R Who We R–Ke$ha 
Blah Blah Blah–Ke$ha 
Dynamite–Taio Cruz 
OMG–Usher 
Do It Well–Jennifer Lopez 
Price Tag–Jessie J 
Rain–Mika 
E.T.–Katy Perry 
Give It Up to Me–Shakira 
Pain–Three Days Grace 
Feel Good Inc–Gorillaz 
Brown Eyed Girl–Boyz Nite Out 
I Ran (So Far Away)–Bowling For Soup 
Gone Daddy Gone/I Just Want To Make Love To You–Gnarls Barkley 
I Can Do Better–Avril Lavigne 
Fire Burning–Sean Kingston 
Raise Your Glass–P!nk 
Can’t Run But–Paul Simon 
Rude Boy–Rihanna 
3–Britney Spears 
Break Your Heart–Taio Cruz  11:03 AM
Imma Be–Black Eyed Peas 
My First Kiss–3OH!3 
Tik Tok–Ke$ha 
Your Love Is My Drug–Ke$ha 
All the Right Moves–OneRepublic

I studied the race course description and tried to select different songs keyed to different parts of the route (based on a 9:00 min/mile pace). I successfully timed Fergie’s “London Bridge” for my first pass over the bridge, and had Katy Perry’s “E.T.” for the second time across. When I could see the stadium when P!nk’s “Raise Your Glass” came up, I knew I would be close to finishing at my goal time. All in all, I think the time I spent customizing a playlist for the race course was well worth it. I looked forward to hearing the new songs, and they certainly gave me a boost up those hills!

Now I need to figure out how to revamp the playlist for tomorrow’s Lawyers Have Heart 10K. The “bridge” songs would be good motivators for the mile stretches (out and back) on the Whitehurst Freeway.