Flying Pig Marathon Playlist

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I love running to music.  The music playing (okay, blaring) in my headphones has been my running partner every step of my training, and I seriously believe that it is what kept me pushing on those times that I wanted so, so badly to stop.  I distinctly remember a moment at Detroit (at mile 21 or so, when I thought I was going to keel over and die), when "Jesus Walks" came on.  The line, "The only thing I pray is that my feet don't fail me now," was not just a song lyric at that moment - it was my reality.  I probably started crying (like I often do once my mind becomes mush after three+ hours of running), and then I'm quite certain I started singing out loud (another side effect of the mind mush) - but I suddenly felt revived.  I doubt I picked up my pace very much, but I at least kept putting one foot in front of the other.

Because music is such a huge part of my running life, and because I know I'm always looking for new running music, I thought I'd earn some good karma by sharing the running playlist I'll be listening to on race day.

Now this guy is SERIOUS about his running music! (source)

Without further ado, here it is, in alphabetical order by artist (but I'll have the iPod on shuffle on Sunday).  Don't you go judging my many guilty pleasure songs, now ...

 "Rolling In the Deep" - Adele 
 "Move Along" - The All-American Rejects
 "Crazy In Love" - Beyoncé 
 "Let's Get Retarded" - Black Eyed Peas
 "Hey Mama" - Black Eyed Peas 
 "Shut Up" - Black Eyed Peas 
 "Tighten Up" - The Black Keys 
 "Howlin' for You" - The Black Keys 
 "Stronger" - Britney Spears 
 "Born to Run" - Bruce Springsteen 
 "Machinehead" - Bush 
 "Fighter" - Christina Aguilera 
 "What a World" - Common 
 "Salvation" - The Cranberries
 "Free to Decide" - The Cranberries
 "One More Time" - Daft Punk 
 "You Gotta Be" - Des'ree 
 "Survivor" - Destiny's Child 
 "I Like It (feat. Pitbull)" - Enrique Iglesias 
 "American Boy (feat. Kanye West)" - Estelle 
 "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race" - Fall Out Boy 
 "Like a G6" - Far East Movement
 "Dog Days Are Over" - Florence + The Machine 
 "My Hero" - Foo Fighters 
 "Long Road to Ruin" - Foo Fighters 
 "In Your Honor" - Foo Fighters 
 "Best Of You" - Foo Fighters 
 "All My Life" - Foo Fighters 
 "Times Like These" - Foo Fighters 
 "Shut Your Mouth" - Garbage 
 "Silence Is Golden" - Garbage 
 "Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)" - Garbage 
 "Parade" - Garbage 
 "Bad Boyfriend" - Garbage 
 "Run Baby Run" - Garbage 
 "Right Between the Eyes" - Garbage 
 "Oh No" - Girl Talk 
 "Let It Out" - Girl Talk 
 "That's Right" - Girl Talk 
 "Jump on Stage" - Girl Talk 
 "This Is the Remix" - Girl Talk 
 "On and On" - Girl Talk 
 "Get It Get It" - Girl Talk 
 "Down for the Count" - Girl Talk 
 "Make Me Wanna" - Girl Talk 
 "Steady Shock" - Girl Talk 
 "Triple Double" - Girl Talk 
 "Every Day" - Girl Talk 
 "Give Me A Beat" - Girl Talk 
 "Warning" - Incubus 
 "Winner" - Jamie Foxx 
 "Young Forever" - Jay-Z 
 "Empire State of Mind (feat. Alicia Keys)" - Jay-Z 
 "Run This Town (feat. Rihanna & Kanye West)" - Jay-Z 
 "A Praise Chorus" - Jimmy Eat World 
 "Sweetness" - Jimmy Eat World 
 "If You Don't, Don't" - Jimmy Eat World 
 "Big Casino" - Jimmy Eat World 
 "Jesus Walks" - Kanye West 
 "Champion" - Kanye West 
 "Stronger" - Kanye West 
 "Good Life" - Kanye West 
 "Can't Tell Me Nothing" - Kanye West 
 "Flashing Lights" - Kanye West
 "The Glory" - Kanye West
 "Homecoming" - Kanye West 
 "Touch the Sky" - Kanye West 
 "Celebration" - Kanye West 
 "Gorgeous" - Kanye West 
 "Power" - Kanye West 
 "All of the Lights" - Kanye West 
 "Monster" - Kanye West 
 "Runaway" - Kanye West 
 "Hell of a Life" - Kanye West 
 "Lost In the World" - Kanye West 
 "Heartless" - Kanye West 
 "Amazing ft. Young Jeezy" - Kanye West 
 "Love Lockdown" - Kanye West 
 "Paranoid ft. Kid Cudi" - Kanye West 
 "robocop" - Kanye West 
 "Street Lights" - Kanye West 
 "Tell Everybody that you Know ft. Lil' Wayne" - Kanye West 
 "Waking Up In Vegas" - Katy Perry 
 "Take It Off" - Ke$ha 
 "We R Who We R" - Ke$ha 
 "Mr. Brightside" - The Killers 
 "All These Things That I've Done" - The Killers
 "Suddenly I See" - KT Tunstall 
 "Born This Way" - Lady GaGa 
 "Telephone" - Lady GaGa 
 "Bad Romance" - Lady GaGa 
 "Kiss Me Deadly" - Lita Ford 
 "My Chick Bad" - Ludacris 
 "Into the Groove" - Madonna 
 "Shake It" - Metro Station 
 "The Climb" - Miley Cyrus 
 "Float On" - Modest Mouse 
 "Famous Last Words" - My Chemical Romance 
 "Welcome to the Black Parade" - My Chemical Romance 
 "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" - My Chemical Romance 
 "Helena" - My Chemical Romance 
 "She Wants To Move" - N.E.R.D. 
 "I'm an Outlaw" - N.E.R.D. 
 "Hot-n-Fun (feat. Nelly Furtado)" - N.E.R.D. 
 "Hot Like Wow" - Nadia Oh 
 "Promiscuous" - Nelly Furtado
 "B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)" - Outkast 
 "Hey Ya!" - Outkast 
 "Fuego" - Pitbull
 "I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)" - Pitbull 
 "Hush Hush; Hush Hush" - The Pussycat Dolls 
 "C'mon Girl" - Red Hot Chili Peppers 
 "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)" - Shakira
 "Ricochet!" - Shiny Toy Guns 
 "Tell 'Em" - Sleigh Bells 
 "Kids" - Sleigh Bells 
 "Riot Rhythm" - Sleigh Bells 
 "Infinity Guitars" - Sleigh Bells 
 "Run The Heart" - Sleigh Bells 
 "Rachel" - Sleigh Bells 
 "Rill Rill" - Sleigh Bells 
 "Crown On The Ground" - Sleigh Bells 
 "Straight A's" - Sleigh Bells 
 "A/B Machines" - Sleigh Bells 
 "Treats" - Sleigh Bells 
 "Chocolate" - Soul Control
 "Eye Of The Tiger" - Survivor
 "Chariots of Fire" - Synthesizer Syndicate 
 "Live Your Life (feat. Rihanna)" - T.I. 
 "Whatever You Like" - T.I. 
 "You Wreck Me" - Tom Petty 
 "An American Girl" - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 
 "Learning to Fly" - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 
 "Beautiful Day" - U2 
 "Icky Thump" - White Stripes 
 "Frolic Room" - 311 
 "My First Kiss (feat. Ke$ha)" - 3OH!3

I had the hardest time narrowing the songs down to achieve a "reasonable" length of time, so this playlist is actually over NINE hours worth of music.  There would be nothing more devastating than hearing the last song on the playlist and not be finished yet - no chance of that here!  Lord help me if I'm running for nine hours (although, as a side note, it did take this sumo wrestler nearly 10 hours to set the world record for the heaviest man ever to finish a marathon in this year's LA marathon).

Four days and counting!