What BPM is best for general running?

RUNAWAY features an average 140 BPM, ideal for general running workouts.

RUNAWAY - Running Music

The curator's instructions were clear: Press play and runaway. Music to 5K to. So I did. Thirty-six minutes, fourteen tracks, and somewhere around Mile 2, I realized this playlist wasn't interested in negotiating.\n\nRUNAWAY is what happens when power pop crashes into garage rock at a skate park and someone brings the emo kids along for the ride. The New Pornographers open with "Really Really Light"—all shimmer and hooks—before FIDLAR's "Sand on the Beach" kicks sand in your face and the whole thing devolves into beautiful chaos. This isn't genre purity. It's genre collision as propulsion system. One minute you're surfing on STIFF RICHARDS' garage punk, the next you're in Iguana Death Cult's psychedelic meat market, then THE BOBBY LEES show up three times in a row like they own the place. Because at Mile 1.5, when your legs are still pretending they're fresh, this kind of whiplash works. The shifts keep your brain too busy to register what your body's doing.\n\nMile 2 is where the playlist's strategy reveals itself. "Ma Likes to Drink" into "Drive" into "Death Train"—THE BOBBY LEES trifecta—is pharmaceutical-grade momentum. Raw, snarling, garage punk that refuses to let your pace drop. Then TV On The Radio's "Happy Idiot" arrives like a smirking reminder that suffering is a choice we're making on purpose. By the time Paramore's "This Is Why" hits at track nine, I'm three miles in and my quadriceps are filing formal complaints. Hayley Williams is screaming the question we're all asking: why ARE we doing this? The playlist doesn't answer. It just keeps moving.\n\nThat's the thing about running a 5K to this particular blend of genres—there's no time to settle into comfort. Egg punk, skate punk, indie punk, pop punk, they're all here, none of them interested in being wallpaper. Ausmuteants' "New Planet" is seventy-three seconds of frantic energy, Jaded Juice Riders bring surf-damaged garage rock, and then Death From Above 1979 closes with a cover of "Don't Stop Believin'" that sounds like Journey got dragged through a distortion pedal and came out the other side angrier and faster. It's the perfect closer for a playlist that never stops moving, never lets you catch your breath, never pretends this is anything other than what it is: thirty-six minutes of controlled chaos designed to keep your legs moving when your brain suggests better ideas. Press play and runaway. The music won't wait for you to catch up.

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Press Play and Runaway: Music to 5K to

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