COLUMBUS MARATHON RUNFEST COMING SATURDAY, JULY 12 WITH MEB KEFLEZIGHI

The Columbus Marathon RunFest is Saturday, July 12 at  the Aladdin Shrine Center at Easton, on 3850 Stelzer Road.

Hours are 1 to 4 p.m. and admission is free.

Opportunities include:

- Free food and drinks

- Marathon and 1/2 marathon training advice from experts

- Music and entertainment

- Sneak peek at this year’s race shirts and medal

- Raffle of amazing prizes

- Meet 2014 Boston Marathon Winner Meb Keflezighi!

For additional details, visit bit.ly/RunFest14.

CAPITAL CITY HALF MARATHON TRAINING TUNES AND SHORT TAKES FOR APRIL 2014

Song For The Soundtrack:
Rebels

Tom Petty Southern Accents
"Tom Petty is more Californian than Floridian, but this journey through the South comes from someone who knows of what he sings."

Running Data for Wednesday, April 30:
4.02 Miles
43:05
Southern Accents Song For The Soundtrack: Rebels
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 194.86

Song For The Soundtrack:
Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson Red Headed Stranger
"In one sparsely produced swoop in 1975, Willie Nelson created a new direction for country music and the outlaw movement was born. Nearly 30 years later, several of the songs are still a part of his live show."

Running Data for Tuesday, April 29:
4.06 Miles
44:24
Red Headed Stranger Song For The Soundtrack: Red Headed Stranger
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 190.84 Miles

Song For The Soundtrack:
Wide Open Spaces

Dixie Chicks Wide Open Spaces
"The Dixie Chicks took the country music world by storm in 1998 on their first album with Natalie Maines on lead vocals. No matter what career damage their 2003 political firestorm caused, Wide Open Spaces sounds as fresh as it did when it was released. There's a reason the Chicks are one of country's biggest all-time sellers. By the way, Natalie was right."


Running Data for Thursday, April 24:
4.06 Miles
44:24

Wide Open Spaces Song For The Soundtrack: Wide Open Spaces
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 186.78 Miles

Song For The Soundtrack:
Smoke On The Water

Deep Purple The Very Best of Deep Purple
"Deep Purple doesn't always get the historical credit they deserve, but they have left several indelible marks on the classic rock radio playlists with Hush, Highway Star, Smoke On the Water, Space Truckin', and Woman From Tokyo."

Running Data for Tuesday, April 22:
3.25 Miles
36:12
Running Data for Sunday, April 20:
4.01 Miles
45:07
The Very Best of Deep Purple Song For The Soundtrack: Smoke On The Water
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 182.72 Miles

Song For The Soundtrack:
Miles From Nowhere

Cat Stevens Tea For The Tillerman
Footsteps In The Dark
Cat Stevens Greatest Hits
"Session listening to Cat Stevens, especially on sunny day runs, is pure mobile meditation and like going back to the 1970s when AM Radio still ruled the musical airwaves. The commercial depth of his catalog and sincerity of his lyrics more than make his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame deserved."

Running Data for Sunday, April 13:
5.20 Miles
54:22
Running Data for Saturday, April 12:
5.25 Miles
45:07
Tea For The Tillerman Song For The Soundtrack: Miles From Nowhere
Footsteps In The Dark Song For The Soundtrack: On The Road To Find Out
Cat Stevens Greatest Hits Song For The Soundtrack: Father And Son
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 175.46 Miles

Song For The Soundtrack:
Hit Somebody! (The Hockey Song)

Warren Zevon
My Ride's Here
"My Ride's Here is the middle episode of Zevon's mortality trilogy with Life'll Kill Ya as the opening act and The Wind as the finale. It's just as typically dark as the other two, even if it's not quite as easily approachable. Hit Somebody! (The Hockey Song) includes a cameo from long time friend and fan David Letterman."

Running Data for Thursday, April 3:
4.16 Miles
43:40
My Ride's Here Song For The Soundtrack: Hit Somebody! (The Hockey Song)
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 165.01 Miles

Song For The Soundtrack:
I Drove Her Out Of My Mind

Johnny Cash Out Among The Stars
"The Man In Black recorded the songs on this posthumous 2014 collection in the early 1980s when he was trying to recapture commercial gold with producer Billy Sherrill. It's neither a Sun Studios redo nor an early preview of his American Recordings personna, but Out Among The Stars is a pleasant trip back to when his voice was strong and the chosen material dead on."

Running Data for Wednesday, April 2:
4.07 Miles
43:04
Out Among The Stars Song For The Soundtrack: I Drove Her Out of My Mind
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 160.85 Miles

CAPITAL CITY HALF MARATHON TRAINING TUNES AND SHORT TAKES FOR MARCH 2014

Song For The Soundtrack:
Sweet Emotion

Aerosmith Toys In The Attic
"No matter how many thousands of times you've heard the signature guitar riffs for Sweet Emotion and Walk This Way, they never lose their magic."

Running Data For Wednesday, March 26:
2.36 Miles
25:16
Toys In The Attic Song For The Soundtrack: Sweet Emotion
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 156.78 Miles

Song For The Soundtrack:
Saturday Night's All
Right For Fighting

Elton John Greatest Hits
"Radio in the 1970s absolutely belonged to Elton John and this collection proves beyond a shadow of a doubt why he deserved it."

Running Data For Tuesday, March 25:
3.11 Miles
33:01
Greatest Hits Song For The Soundtrack: Saturday Night's All Right For Fighting
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 154.42 Miles

Song For The Soundtrack:
Long Limbed Girl

Nick Lowe At My Age
"The Jesus of Cool continues his graceful aging with another quiet collection of masterful music."

Running Data For Monday, March 24:
3.01 Miles
32:22
At My Age Song For The Soundtrack: Longed Limbed Girl
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage:  151.31 Miles

Song For The Soundtrack:
Somebody Get Me A Doctor

Van Halen Van Halen II
"Eddie Valen and his guitar are always the star attraction, but there's no Van Halen party like one with David Lee Roth as the ringmaster."

Running Data For Sunday, March 23:
4.02 Miles
40:46
Van Halen II Song For The Soundtrack: Somebody Get Me A Doctor
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 148.30 Miles

Song For The Soundtrack:
Rock Box

Run-D.M.C. Greatest Hits
"Run-D.M.C. sampled monster rock riffs with the cleverest rhymes and almost never played the potty mouth card."

Running Data For Saturday, March 22:
4.42 Miles
45:03
Greatest Hits Song For The Soundtrack: Rock Box
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 144.28 Miles

Song For The Soundtrack:
Iron Man

Black Sabbath Paranoid
"Of the eight songs on this record, four are metal classics and the others weave a wild and warped jazz."

Running Data For Wednesday, March 19:
4.07 Miles
41:13
Paranoid Song For The Soundtrack: Iron Man
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 139.86 Miles







Big Ten Hoops Day 5K Downtown Indianapolis (No Music/Conversation Run)
"Slowest 5K ever, but after three days of hoops, brews and multiple nights in the Slippery Noodle, finishing any run - especially one into a cold stiff wind - felt like it should be a medal-winner."

Running Data For Sunday, March 16:
3.10 Miles
35:09
Placed 466 out of 592
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 135.79 Miles

Song For The Soundtrack:
Add It Up

Violent Femmes Violent Femmes
"You can still add it up and count the Violent Femmes 1982 debut as one of the decade's most memorable collections."

Running Data For Tuesday, March 11:
4.00 Miles
43:49
Violent Femmes Song For The Soundtrack: Add It Up
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 132.69 Miles

Song For The Soundtrack:
Waiting For The Sun

The Jayhawks Hollywood Town Hall
"They don't get the credit of the Uncle Tupelo/Wilco/Son Volt family tree, but any discussion about the greatest alt country bands has to include The Jayhawks."

Running Data For Monday, March 10:
4.05 Miles
42:15
Hollywood Town Hall Song For The Soundtrack: Waiting For The Sun
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 128.69 Miles

Song For The Soundtrack:
Shit Shots Count

Drive-By Truckers English Oceans
"After a run of mellow DBT and solo efforts, Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley return to their rock roots - still just as literary - but with the guitars cranked up again."

Running Data For Saturday, March 8:
6.07 Miles
1:03:54
English Oceans Song For The Soundtrack: Shit Shots Count
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 124.64 Miles

CAPITAL CITY HALF MARATHON TRAINING TUNES & SHORT TAKES FOR FEBRUARY 2014

Song For The Soundtrack:
Stomp And Holler

Hard Working Americans Hard Working Americans
"Don't let the Jam Band roots fool you. The Hard Working Americans bring home a Seventies-styled guitar rock record that proves Todd Snider can front a really great band too."

Running Data For Thursday, February 27:
4.01 Miles
41:52
Hard Working Americans Song For The Soundtrack: Stomp And Holler
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 118.57 Miles

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Song For The Soundtrack:
Motherly Love

Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention Freak Out!
"This 1966 debut by Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention is satirical, cynical and hilarious. It's hard to determine what's more fantastic about this record: how true the lyrics still ring almost 50 years later or just how well this band plays regardless of song style."

Running Data For Wednesday, February 26:
4.08 Miles
44:35
Freak Out Song For The Soundtrack: Motherly Love
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 114.56 Miles

Conversation Run (No Music)
Running Data For Saturday, February 22:
3.08 Miles
45:47
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 110.48 Miles

The Cramps Bad Music For Bad People

Song For The Soundtrack:
New Kind of Kick

"The Cramps make music for people bad enough to wade into the drug hazed swamps of horror movie imagination and seedy sex fantasies played behind rockabilly rhythms and beats. They don't bite unless you ask them to."

Running Data For Thursday, February 20:
3.26 Miles
36:10
Bad Music For Bad People Song For The Soundtrack: New Kind Of Kick
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 107.40 Miles

Song For The Soundtrack:
Uncontrollable Urge

Devo Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
"This run was in tribute to guitarist Bob "2" Casale who died at age 61 the day before. On their 1978 debut, Devo was a guitar band with synthesizer hearts, and uniforms of yellow jump suits and flower pot hats. Don't let the hype of the look overwhelm just how historic this record remains."

Running Data For Tuesday, February 18:
3.10 Miles
34:52
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! Song For The Soundtrack: Uncontrollable Urge
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 104.14 Miles

Song For The Soundtrack:
The Only Man

Lydia Loveless
The Only Man
"It's hard to believe this nearly straight country take - musically - was recorded when Lydia Loveless was a teenager, especially given the hard living she writes and sings about throughout. This is not your father's country music and it's a hundred hard roads away from where she ends up in 2014 on Somewhere Else."

Running Data For Saturday, February 15:
3.21 Miles
36:27
The Only Man Song For The Soundtrack: The Only Man
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 101.04 Miles

Song For The Soundtrack:
A Country Boy Can Survive

Hank Williams Jr. Hank Live
"Hank Jr. only plays it kinda of like his daddy did; but if you hate him for that, you're missing the point. This is rowdy country rock 'n' roll with a prideful Southern spirit that takes as much from Hank Sr. as it does ZZ Top."

Running Data For Wednesday, February 12:
3.04 Miles
34:27
Hank Live Song For The Soundtrack: A Country Boy Can Survive
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 97.83 Miles

Song For The Soundtrack:
Waiting On June

Holly Williams The Highway
"The Highway is the best album of 2013 that I didn't discover until seeing Holly Williams live in 2014 opening for Jason Isbell. The granddaughter of Hank Sr., the daughter of Bocephus and the sister of Hank III brings an aching point of view that must be heard and felt."

Running Data For Tuesday, February 11:
3.37 Miles
39:58
The Highway Song For The Soundtrack: Waiting On June
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 94.79 Miles

Song For The Soundtrack:
Sunday Morning

Elizabeth Cook Balls and Gospel Plow
"There's a sassy sexiness to Elizabeth Cook's country, especially when she declares 'sometimes it takes balls to be a woman.' Amen."

Running Data For Sunday, February 9:
4.09 Miles
50:00
Balls Song For The Soundtrack: Sunday Morning
Gospel Plow Song For The Soundtrack: Gospel Plow
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 91.42 Miles

Song For The Soundtrack:
Mob Stew

Royal Crescent Mob Good Lucky Killer
"While they are as legendary as any Columbus band inside and outside of 270, the Royal Crescent Mob should have exploded the way the Red Hot Chili Peppers did. There is no doubt in my mind that if you put both bands into the ring for a funk punk cage match the RC Mob would rule them like fools."

Running Data For Saturday, February 8:
4.11 Miles
43:58
Good Lucky Killer Song For The Soundtrack: Mob Stew
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 87.33 Miles

Song For The Soundtrack:
Wine Lips

Lydia Loveless Somewhere Else
"The latest from Columbus' cowpunk princess is a rollicking rock 'n' roll record with very little twang in its groove. It deserves all the praises it has received, but if anyone came to get alt country or otherwise, you better go put on your copy of Indestructible Machine or The Only Man."

Running Data For Tuesday, February 4:
3.26 Miles
35:58
Somewhere Else Song For The Soundtrack: Wine Lips
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 83.22 Miles

Disc I Song for the Sountrack:
My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)
Disc II Song for the Soundtrack:
Like A Hurricane

Neil Young & Crazy Horse Live In San Francisco
"Recorded at the Cow Palace in 1978, these are among the performances that become the classic Live Rust record and movie. On Live In San Francisco, Neil Young and Crazy Horse balance the mellow with mad for one of their most legendary shows."

Running Data For Sunday, February 2:
3.05 Miles
33:12
Live In San Francisco Disc II Song For The Soundtrack: Like A Hurricane
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 79.96 Miles
Running Data For Saturday, February 1:
4.07 Miles
46:29
Live In San Francisco Disc I Song For The Soundtrack: My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 76.91 Miles


Neil Young & Crazy Horse Live At The Fillmore East

Song For The Soundtrack:
Down By The River

"The evolution of Neil Young continues, but this time he's riding the Horse in crazy ways he could never do by himself. There are only six songs on the album and each one is epic."

Running Data For Saturday, February 1:
6.18 Miles
1:04:37
Live At The Fillmore East Song For The Soundtrack: Down By The River
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 72.84 Miles

CAPITAL CITY HALF MARATHON TRAINING, TUNES AND SHORT TAKES FOR JANUARY 2014

Song For The Soundtrack:
Cowgirl In The Sand

Neil Young Live At Massey Hall 1971
"You can hear Neil Young's confidence grow from the performance on Live At The Cellar Door, which was only a few months before."


Running Data For Thursday, January 30:
3.07 Miles
34:33
Live At Massey Hall 1971 Song For The Soundtrack: Cowgirl In The Sand
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 66.66 Miles

Song For The Soundtrack:
Don't Let It Bring You Down

Neil Young Live At The Cellar Door
"Live At The Cellar Door is the opportunity to listen to Neil Young develop several of his warhorses from colts."


Running Data For Saturday, January 25:
6.00 Miles
1:10:01
Live At The Cellar Door Song For The Soundtrack: Don't Let It Bring You Down
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 63.59 Miles

Song For The Soundtrack:
Silence When You Speak To Me

Motorhead Aftershock
"Despite Lemmy's health issues, the Motorhead machine roars on and on and on, still louder than everything else."


Running Data For Wednesday, January 22:
6.24 Miles
1:05:07
Aftershock Song For The Soundtrack: Silence When You Speak To Me
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 57.59 Miles

Songs For The Soundtrack:
Lookin' Out My Back Door
Fortunate Son

Creedence Clearwater Revival Creedence Clearwater Revival Box Set 
"It is impossible to overestimate the cumulative greatness of Creedence Clearwater Revival."


Running Data For Saturday, January 18:
8.07 Miles
1:26:18
Creedence Clearwater Revival (Disc 4) Song For The Soundtrack: Lookin' Out My Back Door
Creedence Clearwater Revival (1969/Disc 3) Song For The Soundtrack: Fortunate Son
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 51.35 Miles

Song For The Soundtrack:
The Ghost of Tom Joad

Bruce Springsteen High Hopes
"There are High Hopes every time Bruce Springsteen releases something new. Tom Morello's savage guitar work sharpens the E Street edge in a completely nasty and original way."


Running Data For Wednesday, January 15:
3.03 Miles
34:24
Running Data For Tuesday, January 14:
2.55 Miles
29:23

High Hopes Song For The Soundtrack: The Ghost of Tom Joad

Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 43.28 Miles

Conversation Run (No Music)
Running Data For Saturday, January 11:
6.23 Miles
1:04:28
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 37.70 Miles

Song For The Soundtrack:
The Other Shoe

Old 97's & Waylon Jennings Old 97's/Waylon Jennings
"Essentially, it's two different EPs held together by a great liner notes story and the Old 97's playing on all six songs - two with Waylon singing. Their rumbling, tumbling tempo matches the master's voice perfectly."

Running Data For Friday, January 10:
2.05 Miles
24:49
Old '97's/Waylon Jennings Song For The Soundtrack: The Other Shoe
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 31.47 Miles

Song For The Soundtrack:
Hungover

Brandy Clark 12 Stories
"Some of the songs are wickedly funny; some are just wicked. This is country music for adults."


Running Data For Thursday, January 9:
4.06 Miles
46:37
12 Songs Song For The Soundtrack: Hungover
Capital City Half Marathon Training Total Mileage: 29.42 Miles