And the Winner Is...

Congratulations to Gene Soboleski, the winner of RunnerDudes's AudioFuel/London Marathon Song Nomination Drawing! For the past several day dozens, the blog's readers have been sending in nominations for their favorite running songs. The song nominations were then forwarded on to MusicandMotivation.com, the joint venture between AudioFuel and the London Marathon. The emails RunnerDude received were numbered (in the ordered received) and yesterday those numbers were entered in The Random Number Generator which picked Gene Soboleski's email as the lucky winner. Gene will receive £20 worth of products from AudioFuel. Go Gene!

Once AudioFuel collects all the submitted songs from around the world, they will take the top 10 songs and publish an iMix as the official playlist for The London Marathon. So, check their website next month to see if your nominated song made the Mix! [Click here] to get a free sample from AudioFuel!

Listed below are the songs nominated by the RunnerDude's Blog readers.

Wake Up (Arcade Fire)

Valerie (Amy Wienhouse)

Innocent (Cook)

Good Life (OneRepublic)

High and Dry (RadioHead)

Flower (Moby)

If Tomorrow Was Your Last Day (Nickelback)

Ride Like the Wind (Michael Mind)

Hit the Ground Running (The Doves)

Fire on the Mountain (Greateful Dead)

Long May You Run (Neil Young)

Don't Go (Yaz)

Foo Fighters (Learn to Fly)

KernKraft (Zombie Nation)

Beautiful Life (Gui Boratto)

Let's Get It Started ( Black Eyed Peas)

The Adventure (Angles and Airways)

The War (Angle and Airways)

Battle Flag (Lo Fidelity Allstars)

Kinghts of Cydonia (Muse)

The Suffering (Coheed and Cambria)

Till I Collapse (Eminem)

Do Fries Come With That Shake

Roadrunner (The Modern Lovers)

Ring the Alarm (Beyonce)

For the Love of the Game (Pillar)

Viva la Vida (Coldplay)

Time to Pretend (MGMT)

I Gotta Feeling (Black Eyed Peas)

Keep Up (Hyper Crush)

Ray of Light (Madonna)

Candy Everybody Wants (10,000 Maniacs)

Night Watchman (Tom Petty)

The Distance (Cake)

Nominate Your Favorite Running Tune!

RunnerDude was recently contacted by the Virgin London Marathon and a running music company called AudioFuel to see if the readers of RunnerDude's Blog would like to help them out with a little project. My response? "You Bet!"

In the lead up to this year’s marathon, they’re asking runners to nominate their favorite running tracks of which the most popular will end up being the “soundtrack” of the London Marathon!

Organizers know that filling your iPod with good running music is what a lot of runners like to do and they’d love if you could nominate your favourites, too. Ideally they'd like to generate some debate and get nominations from a wide cross section of the running community as possible.

Audiofuel has also included a free fuel sampler - http://www.sendspace.com/file/ezy5qh that you can check out!

AudioFuel has provided a great incentive to the readers of RunnerDude's Blog—£20 worth of AudioFuel products! Here's how it works. Nominate your favorite running song(s) by emailing the name of the song(s) to RunnerDude at runnerdudeblog@yahoo.com by Monday, January 25th. Be sure to put "Song Nomination" in the subject line and the song name and your name in the body of the email.

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RunnerDude will forward your nomination(s) on to AudioFuel and your email will be entered in a RunnerDude Drawing. The lucky winner of the drawing (announced on Tuesday, February 26th) will be able to select £20 worth of AudioFuel products! Yep, remember this is the London Marathon, so were talking pounds not dollars. How cool is that! (There are lots of compilations and playlists to choose from ranging between £5 and £12.) A special thanks to AudioFuel for providing such an awesome prize!

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AudioFuel will publish the top ten nominations they receive from around the world as an iMix on February 1st.

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Some of the nominated songs so far include...Don't Stop me Now: Queen, Sweet Disposition: The Temper Trap, Granite: Pendulum, Sugar Low: Aynsley Lister, Born to Run: Springsteen, Turn the Beat around: Gloria Estefan, Pump It: Black-eyed Peas, Insomnia: Faithless, Jessica: Allman Brothers Band, Run To The Hills: Iron Maiden, Heroes: David Bowie, Girl: BeckOn Time: The Disco Biscuits, Engineering Masterpiece: Lady Southpaw, Emily Kane: Art Brut, Call on Me: Eric Pridz, and No Easy Way Out: Survivor.

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Don't wait! Send your favorite song to RunnerDude today! Good Luck in the Drawing!