This 12 months, the Blue Cross Broad Avenue Run’s theme is a love letter to Philadelphia. As you’ll be able to see from the 2022 individuals’ T-shirt, it celebrates the range and tradition of the numerous neighborhoods Broad Avenue traverses. Every neighborhood you run via and landmark you see in the course of the race has develop into iconic, retaining runners coming again 12 months after 12 months. We wished this 12 months’s Broad Avenue Beats playlist to movement with the identical vibe.

Hit play proper earlier than you step over the beginning line at North Broad Avenue and West Fisher Avenue. You’ll hear The Roots’ and John Legend’s “The Hearth” blast in your ears. Get pumped with Meek Mill’s “Desires and Nightmares,” Philly’s shout-out in “Dancing within the Avenue,” and Elton John’s basic “Philadelphia Freedom.” And a Philly-centric playlist wouldn’t be full with out Boyz II Males’s “Motownphilly.”

As you method the Stadium Complicated, you’ll be able to take pleasure in rock anthems like “Eye of the Tiger” and “We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions.” As you progress nearer to the End Line, “The Ultimate Countdown” ought to provide the further enhance you should cross it.