Welcome everyone who more or less accidentally stumbled onto this page. Here you'll find my personal list of the 50 best songs for jogging and/or running ever made, a list I plan to update twice a year, and a full list I plan to update once per month if there are new songs to add to it. The previous bilinguality has been dropped in favor of a page totally in English, BPM values are still calculated by the great free BPM counter from www.mixmeister.com, SPM still means Steps Per Minute and for an expansion of the concept behind the whole thing you can still click here to read my footnote on it and/or go to the Jogtunes site (just click on the picture below) where my friend doctor Bob Marcus in Utah is listing music in even more genres and also offers download options via iTunes.



Anyway, my name is Peter Andersson and I live in Eksjö, Sweden. I've been using music to boost my running on and off for ten to fifteen years, previously through cassettes and a walkman but since 2005 through digital music and my first mp3-player.

I'm far from being an elite runner, in peak form I just barely go 10K sub fifty, but because of that and that I have a taste for slow distance training I have been collecting music for a wider variety of running speeds, though mostly for the 140-180 SPM (Steps Per Minute) range.

I'm guessing most runners that collect music for the purpose of training focus on a smaller range at the higher parts of that interval (or even higher) since 180 SPM according to Runners World is considered the ideal cadence for competitive running, something I rarely engage in since I prefer running by myself. It's more relaxing and I get more frequent Runners High experiences that way.

Being a hobby writer who likes to take on a new project and/or genre every year I decided in the summer of 2006 to start advocating running with music. I'd been having that idea on the back burner for a couple of years but got some extra incentive to go with it when there was voices raised here to ban running with headphones (this is after all the land where prohibitions are like air to some people and bicycle helmets for kids up to fifteeen years old are actually a legislated requirement).

In short that's how I initially came to write a three piece series of articles that was followed by the top 50 list on this page. Later in 2006 I found www.jogtunes.com and got in touch with Bob Marcus who's been collecting runnable music on the other side of the pond. With the year 2006 about to reach its final stretch I also found the great, free BPM counter from www.mixmeister.com that already has made the pre-running manual part of scouting for suitable music much easier, so far I've found more new eardrums to legs coordination pleasure songs in 2007 than ever before.