BQ or Bust Week 2: Daily Training To Qualify For The Boston Marathon (15 Weeks to Chicago Marathon)
Run, Selfie, Repeat
Kelly Roberts
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Week 2 of my BQ or Bust journey as I train for the Chicago Marathon with one goal in mind: qualifying for the Boston Marathon. If you want an inside look at how a running coach tackles marathon training, you're in the right place.
In this vlog, I take you through a very real-life training week—one that didn’t go exactly to plan. I was in Cincinnati for the 4th of July, the week got a little chaotic, and I didn’t hit every run I wanted to. But we’re not chasing perfection—we’re building momentum.
This week’s workouts included:
🏃♀️ 5 x 5 minutes at threshold pace with 90 seconds recovery
🏃♀️ A long run with 9 miles at conversational pace + 3 strong miles to finish
Plus, I started dialing in my fueling and hydration game—because if you want to train well, you’ve gotta fuel well.
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⚡️ Maurten (normal + caffeine)
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🍓 Skratch chews
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🍫 Bonk Breakers
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to week two of Bekee Robust. |
| 0:02.0 | 7654 321. |
| 0:04.0 | Hi everybody. My name is Kelly Roberts if we've never met before. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm a running coach. I'm the founder of the badass lady gang. |
| 0:11.0 | And this is Beke Robust. It is my journey. It is my moonshot training journey to try to qualify for the Boston Marathon. |
| 0:20.0 | I started trying to qualify for the Boston Marathon. I started trying to qualify for the Boston |
| 0:21.9 | marathon in 2016, almost 10 years ago, nine years ago, I started this whole, whole training |
| 0:30.9 | journey that ended up totally and completely changing who I am as a person, fundamentally, |
| 0:36.0 | inside, outside, all the things. |
| 0:37.9 | And it's been such a rewarding journey, but it's been incredibly challenging, |
| 0:43.3 | understandably. |
| 0:44.4 | You can't train for a marathon and not have it be, like, insanely difficult. |
| 0:47.6 | But it's really challenged a lot of things I've either not had the courage to deal with yet or that I didn't know were causing |
| 1:00.0 | friction inside of me, beliefs I held that were hurting me. So much of running is parallel |
| 1:09.5 | to what's happening in your life. |
| 1:11.6 | When I was in theater school, |
| 1:13.1 | I got my undergraduate degree in theater |
| 1:14.3 | in case anyone didn't know, |
| 1:16.0 | but one of my professors used to say, |
| 1:18.3 | if it's true in your life, it's true in your art. |
| 1:21.0 | And I think the same is true for running. |
| 1:22.9 | If it's true and you're running, it's true in your life, |
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