{"id":508,"date":"2016-04-23T12:08:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T12:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runspoonsrun.co.uk\/?p=508"},"modified":"2016-04-23T16:34:15","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T16:34:15","slug":"23416-everything-comes-down-to-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runspoonsrun.co.uk\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"23\/4\/16 &#8211; Everything Comes Down to This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This time tomorrow, I&#8217;ll be running. Right now I&#8217;m in the middle of making a Marathon playlist.<\/p>\n<p>Despite my decision not to run with music, so I can fully enjoy the atmosphere and encouragement of the crowd, I&#8217;m putting together an inspirational playlist that I can plug into, in case the going gets really tough.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a mixture of songs that are running favourites, tunes that I find\u00a0emotional and uplifting and those that contain lines relevant to the task at hand, including some that have been mentally edited to fit. If you see me out on the course with headphones in, then it means I&#8217;m having a hard time. However, if you see a tear or so, it might just be because I&#8217;m\u00a0listening to <strong><em>Absolute Beginners<\/em> by <em>David Bowie<\/em><\/strong> rather than any\u00a0physical hurt. That&#8217;s my story and I&#8217;m sticking to it!<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, the song that got me here in the first place is on there:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PGaoEgQbiiA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a selection of the other songs and lines that I hope will see\u00a0me home:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;When you think your battle is done, is there room for one more run?&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>If you can&#8217;t hold on, if you can&#8217;t hold on&#8230; Hold on!&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<strong><em>All These Things I&#8217;ve Done &#8211;\u00a0The Killers<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I&#8217;m bulletproof, nothing to lose, fire away, fire away<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Ricochet, you take your aim,\u00a0Fire away, fire away<\/em><br \/>\n<em>You shoot me down but I won&#8217;t fall,\u00a0I am Titanium&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Titanium &#8211; David Guetta ft. Sla<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Blind ambition and <del>mal<\/del>-gel nutrition will take\u00a0me there&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<strong><em>One in a Million &#8211; Astronaut<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Feeling okay this morning and you know,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>We&#8217;re on the road to Paradise, here we go, here we go&#8221;<\/em><strong><br \/>\nRoad to Nowhere &#8211; Talking Heads<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We&#8217;re gonna be rougher, we&#8217;re gonna be tougher<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And I won&#8217;t be the one who&#8217;s gonna suffer&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Madness &#8211; Madness<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I&#8217;m phased out, stunned &#8211;\u00a0that wasn&#8217;t in the plan,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Call the Emergency Medical Hologram&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Emergency Medical Hologram &#8211; Abdoujaparov<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>And sometimes it&#8217;s just about the Music: those life-lucky songs and favourite pieces, that you just can&#8217;t live\u00a0without&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong><em>Pure &#8211; Gary Numan<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Glad All Over &#8211;\u00a0Dave Clark Five<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Cartoon Dad &#8211;\u00a0Jim Bob <\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<em><strong>King of England &#8211; Chris T-T<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>God, St Peter and the Guardian Angel &#8211; Carter USM <\/strong><\/em><em><strong><br \/>\nA Pain that I&#8217;m Used to &#8211; Depeche Mode <\/strong><\/em><em><strong><br \/>\nCome Home &#8211; James<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em>(I&#8217;m thinking\u00a0<em>Sit Down<\/em> might send the wrong subliminal message)<em><strong><br \/>\nDon&#8217;t Stop Me Now &#8211; Queen<br \/>\nPlay for Today &#8211; Belle and Sebastian<br \/>\nKeep it Up &#8211; Boomtown Rats<br \/>\nGo West &#8211; Pet Shop Boys<br \/>\nSunchyme &#8211; Dario G<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>The last word, however, is from one of my\u00a0lifelong musical heroes:<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know how this\u00a0is going to end,<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know how this is going to change,<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know how this is going to feel&#8217;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>But <strong>EVERYTHING COMES DOWN TO THIS!<\/strong>&#8220;<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Gary Numan<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>See you on Monday, when I&#8217;ll most probably be listening to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-Kobdb37Cwc\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time tomorrow, I&#8217;ll be running. Right now I&#8217;m in the middle of making a Marathon playlist. Despite my decision<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-london2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runspoonsrun.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runspoonsrun.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runspoonsrun.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runspoonsrun.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runspoonsrun.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/runspoonsrun.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/runspoonsrun.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runspoonsrun.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runspoonsrun.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runspoonsrun.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}