BQ or Bust Week 5: Why I Fired My PT, 6-Day Training Weeks, and Racing with Zero Pacing Strategy
Run, Selfie, Repeat
Kelly Roberts
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🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Week 5 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 PT frustrations, or wondering how to pace a race properly (spoiler: I didn't!), this week's got everything you need.
This week was a GAME-CHANGER: 🏃♀️ First time running 6 days this training cycle (and loving it!) 🔥 A blazing fast 5-mile race with absolutely terrible pacing execution 🩺 I fired my physical therapist and found a new one (here's what to look for!) 🌡️ Survived another scorching hot week with a few glorious 67-degree days
I'm breaking down exactly what to look for in a physical therapist, how to find a good one, and why sometimes you need to trust your gut and make a change. Plus, you'll get all the juicy details on my 5-mile race where I went out WAY too fast but somehow held on for a fantastic time.
The heat continues to test me, but those rare cool mornings remind me why I fell in love with running in the first place. My body is responding beautifully to the increased volume, and I'm feeling stronger than ever.
My mantra remains: WHY NOT. Why not trust your instincts about your healthcare team? Why not push through when the pacing plan goes out the window? Why not embrace the process, even when it's messy?
Throughout this series, you'll get real, unfiltered marathon training—the highs, the lows, the PT drama, and the breakthrough moments that make it all worth it.
🖤 The only way you fail is if you fail to try. WHY NOT?!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, welcome to the Run Selfie Repeat podcast where we talk about life with the side |
| 0:05.2 | of running. |
| 0:06.2 | My name is Kelly Roberts and this is a weekly vlog. |
| 0:10.9 | You can watch this if you want on my YouTube channel, but otherwise like you're kind of |
| 0:15.3 | going to be listening to me giving a play by play of how week five of training for the Chicago |
| 0:19.2 | Marathon went while also watching five of training for the Chicago Marathon went, while also |
| 0:21.0 | watching clips of me from the week. |
| 0:24.6 | Big, big little moment of shout out to fuel goods, which is the sponsor of BQ or Bust. |
| 0:31.7 | Without feel goods, this would not be happening. |
| 0:33.7 | Feel goods is a marketplace where you can get hydration and fueling resources. |
| 0:42.3 | This is the time of year where it is time to figure out your hydration and fueling needs. Do not leave this up to chance. |
| 0:44.3 | You need 40 to 60 grams as a starting point of grams of carbohydrate an hour. |
| 0:49.3 | So figuring out what works for you and then figuring out how to train your gut so that you can get |
| 0:54.7 | upwards of 60 to 90 for those half marathons and marathons is super helpful so going to fuel goods |
| 1:00.5 | they have a quiz if you want to take it that quiz will show you some some amazing different array |
| 1:06.5 | of hydration resources or hydration options fueling options options, protein options, all sorts of stuff. |
| 1:14.0 | Don't leave this up to chance. There's so many great products out there. The feel goods has a really, |
| 1:20.1 | really diverse array of options on their website, but without overwhelming you, there are some |
| 1:25.4 | marketplaces that have so many options that you're just |
| 1:28.2 | kind of like, I don't know what to do. Fuel goods has just enough options to give you enough |
| 1:33.5 | choice without making you feel like you're at the Cheathcake factory and you have a 30-page menu. |
| 1:39.2 | So some of my favorites are scratch for hydration, precision for hydration, tailwind for both hydration and fueling, |
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