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Easy Miles — No Shuffle · 12 tracks · 44:19

Easy Miles: The Run That Protects the Other Runs — Forty-four slow minutes engineered to keep you honest about easy day actually being easy.

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Randy Kane · Open Tabs
Jul 15, 2026
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The single hardest thing in running (for me anyway) is running slow on purpose. I’d turn every recovery jog into an accidental tempo run because the music dragged me up. This playlist sits down low and stays there — it’s built to talk you OUT of speeding up.

Run it conversational, no shuffle. If you can’t sing along, you’re going too hard for what this is. Let the low BPM set a floor under your effort, soak up the recovery, and let that gentle lift at the end carry you home without ever feeling like work. This is the run that lets tomorrow’s run be good. Maybe, if you run with a smartwatch or fitness wearable, pay attention to your heart rate and focus on stability here.
[🤫Wearable Tech post coming soon!]

Here’s the arc I built into Tempo — No Shuffle, 42:12 from first stride to cooldown:

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