BQ or Bust Week 3 – Big Doubt, Big Dreams | Chicago Marathon Training Recap
Run, Selfie, Repeat
Kelly Roberts
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🗓️ 14 July 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Week 3 of my BQ or Bust journey as I train for the 2024 Chicago Marathon with one big goal: qualifying for the Boston Marathon. If you're training for a marathon, chasing a personal best, or just trying to stay consistent through the chaos of summer, you're in the right place.
This week was a BIG one:
🏃♀️ 5 runs
🚴♀️ 1 long bike ride
💪 2 strength training days
🧘♀️ 1 yoga session
I’m finally feeling more like myself after dealing with piriformis syndrome the last few weeks. The heat and humidity were brutal, but I’m feeling strong—and more importantly, I’m remembering my why.
Yes, I have big dreams. Yes, I’ve been feeling some doubt and fear (normal runner things). But right now, I’m focusing on progress over perfection and keeping the process fun. My new mantra? WHY NOT.
Why not try?
Why not see what I’m capable of?
Throughout this series, you'll get a behind-the-scenes look at how I’m building fitness, managing setbacks, and working on the mental game—because marathon training isn’t just physical, it’s personal.
🖤 The only way you fail is if you fail to try. WHY NOT?!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Run Selfie Repeat podcast where we talk about life at the side of running. |
| 0:06.2 | My name is Kelly Roberts and this is a BQ robust week three recap video. Wow, I just cut out a big |
| 0:14.3 | pause, but I just paused for so long brain farting on the word recap. But I got there. I got |
| 0:18.6 | there, everyone. Yeah, three weeks of marathon training we're |
| 0:21.5 | almost a fourth of the way through which is shocking and scary i'm not going to lie but i'm getting |
| 0:26.5 | ahead of myself let's do some housekeeping some badass lady gang housekeeping training experiences |
| 0:30.8 | if you are looking for coaching and want to try what training with the badass lady gang is like |
| 0:35.3 | come try a badass lady game training experience right now the 16 week fall fall marathon training experience is still open for registration |
| 0:43.6 | that goes all the way through november 9th um other training experiences we have open are the 16 |
| 0:50.3 | week fall half marathon training experience which we've never done a 16 week half marathon |
| 0:54.6 | training experience before, you are going to get 12 weeks of training, so a 12 week training |
| 0:59.2 | plan and 16 weeks of coaching calls to get everybody in that September, October, November |
| 1:03.8 | range. So that's going to be very fun. It's very affordable too. And then we have our 5K and 10K |
| 1:08.9 | training experience that starts August 4th and goes through November, or September 28th. And then we have our 5k and 10k training experience that starts August 4th and |
| 1:11.3 | goes through November or September 28th. And then we of course have our run Disney 16 week magical |
| 1:17.0 | January half marathon and marathon training experience. So if you're doing anything run Disney or a January |
| 1:22.1 | race, come train with us. You can train for anything, but it's 16 weeks long. You get a weekly |
| 1:26.8 | coaching call for all of our training experiences. fun that starts on September 22nd and runs |
| 1:32.0 | through January 18th and I'm gonna be at Disney running the Disney World Marathon so |
| 1:37.5 | I'm gonna be training right alongside you pretty fun all the info's down below you |
| 1:41.9 | you know weekly coaching call a custom training plan, |
| 1:44.4 | which means that I'm going to be adjusting your training plan throughout training, but also really |
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