BQ or Bust Week 4 – From Piriformis Pain to PR Training | Speed Work & Long Run Wins
Run, Selfie, Repeat
Kelly Roberts
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Week 4 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, dealing with injury setbacks, or wondering how to nail your fueling strategy, this week's got something for you. This week was INCREDIBLE: 🏃♀️ 2 speed play sessions (finally back to feeling STRONG running fast paces!)
🍯 Continued fueling strategy tweaks and testing
💪 Sports Bra Squad Day celebration 🏃♀️ An amazing long run that reminded me why I love this ✨ Feeling almost 100% after my piriformis syndrome journey I'm officially feeling like myself again! The piriformis issues that scared me and slowed me down are nearly behind me, and I'm rediscovering my speed and confidence. This week proved that patience with injury recovery pays off—and that the comeback is always sweeter than the setback. My mantra remains: WHY NOT. Why not push through the doubt? Why not trust the process? Why not believe I'm capable of more than I think? Throughout this series, you'll get real, unfiltered marathon training—the highs, the lows, the injury scares, and the breakthrough moments that make it all worth it.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey gang, welcome to the Run, Selfie Repeat podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | My name is Kelly Roberts. |
| 0:06.0 | This is a weekly review vlog. |
| 0:09.0 | So if you want to watch this, this is created with video in mind, but you can absolutely |
| 0:14.0 | listen to it as well. |
| 0:15.0 | If you want to watch it, it's linked down below on YouTube, but otherwise, take me on your |
| 0:20.0 | run with you. This is week four of |
| 0:23.4 | Chicago Marathon Training. I just wrapped it up. So let's review. That's a wrap on week four |
| 0:29.8 | of marathon training. 7654, 321. Hi everybody. My name's Kelly Roberts. If we've never met before, |
| 0:36.9 | I'm trying to qualify for the Boston Marathon at the Chicago Marathon this year. I just finished week four of half marathon training. We are now officially, oh my God, I almost said eight weeks. We're not almost eight weeks there. We're not. We're 12 weeks away, which is very exciting. |
| 0:55.3 | Time is flying. |
| 0:56.9 | I started trying to qualify for the Boston Marathon in 2016. |
| 1:01.8 | If we've never met before, I started this vlog series BQ robust and I've been vlogging |
| 1:06.2 | it since 2016. |
| 1:08.8 | I am not a, I'm not someone who was active in athletic growing up. I was a theater |
| 1:15.3 | person. I found running the way a lot of people find running. I had a little quarter life crisis. |
| 1:21.4 | And running gave me so many gifts. But I never imagined I would run a marathon until I did and that helped me |
| 1:30.2 | unlock parts of myself I I just never I just never knew we're there it came my job |
| 1:38.5 | very quickly and and logging has been such a wild experience because I now have so much of this like this little time capsule of |
| 1:47.4 | myself changing and this week and week four it's fun because I have as a running coach now I have this |
| 1:56.2 | marathon training experience with badass lady gang kind of like going parallel with my training |
| 2:00.4 | and in our marathon training experiences every week we go over our journals and in |
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