I'm goona show my age here, I do like quite a variety of music to run, some of the better ones are Def Leppard, Queen, The Beatles, early Led Zep, T Rex, Bachman Turner Overdrive, ELO even some Wham and Showaddywaddy and some 70's hits by other various artists. I am a bit picky on the newer stuff such as Oasis :-)

I was dragged to a SugaBabes concert once and I must admit it wasn't too bad, nor was the music, oops going off track here.

I'm only a relative beginner at running but I do enjoy having some music when I'm running on my own.

Here are a few of my favourites: the 'Underbelly' soundtrack (did anyone else watch this great Australian gangster series?), Costello Music by The Fratellis and(corny I know) 'Fit but you know it' by The Streets.

I've also just got the '101 Running Songs' album and started to listen to it on shuffle and this certainly makes a change.

Helen for me the ultimate running track is The Killers Mr Brightside, it is just the perfect beat. Also like a bit of Muse but my ipod is very varied, have some good cheesy 80's stuff like Don't Stop Believing and Electric Dreams and the track that makes me laugh is the Rocky Theme tune it's perfect when you feel like you can't carry on! MGMT Time to pretend is good too

Thanks Helen. I'm working up to a marathon so doing a lot more long slow/steady running, so I've put those Sennheiser PMX80 on my chistmas list! You also make a good point about hearing whats going on around you. Its not so impotant when on your own as you simply be very careful at roads and cycle tracks but in races it can be very dangerous. I've done a lot of marshalling over the years and only recently have I had to scream at the top of my voice as headphones wearers veerinto the path of traffic, cycles and pedestrians and on two amazing accasions actually start running the wrong way down the course!

Although running can be quite boring especially on long easy runs I've almost never listened to music since the few times I've tried it I can't seem to enjoy it very much what with all the distractions around and poor sound quality. How do you keep the earphones in your ears anyway?