BQ or Bust Week 6 | First injury scare, dry needling session, and why catching pain early matters
Run, Selfie, Repeat
Kelly Roberts
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🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Week 6 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 dealing with running injuries, wondering about injury prevention, or curious about dry needling, this week covers it all—including the stuff I almost didn't want to admit was happening.
This week brought some real challenges: 🏃♀️ Speed play sessions and solid time on my feet 🏋️♀️ Cross training and strength work keeping me balanced 🦵 My first long run of the cycle... followed by a little crash out ⚠️ Soleus and achilles swelling that I really didn't want to acknowledge 📍 Taking you inside my dry needling appointment
I'll be honest—I almost didn't want to talk about the overuse injury because admitting it's happening felt like failure. But as a coach, I know how important it is to show you the real process of catching and rehabbing pain early. When you listen to your body and act fast, these become small rehabs that require minimal time off instead of major setbacks.
Here's what I'm learning (again): injury prevention is tough, but body awareness is everything. Rehab isn't just about rest—it's about strategic soft tissue work and trusting your physical therapist to help you mobilize, stabilize, and strengthen properly.
This is the messy, real side of marathon training that nobody talks about enough. My mantra remains: WHY NOT. Why not face the hard stuff head-on? Why not show the full journey, including the parts that scare us?
🖤 The only way you fail is if you fail to try. WHY NOT?!
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, hello. How are you? It's me, Kelly Roberts. Welcome to the Run Selfie Repeat podcast where we talk about life with the side of running. But this is not a normal run selfie repeat episode. We're in BQ robust season and this is a weekly vlog, which means everything shot |
| 0:22.9 | in what you're about to hear was shot for video. So there's going to be some parts that are |
| 0:29.1 | music because it's time lapse. But you'll be able to run along to it if this is, you know, |
| 0:35.4 | your speed. I love the weekly vlogs. Every week |
| 0:37.9 | I kind of recap what happened in Chicago Marathon training because right now I'm training for the |
| 0:42.4 | Chicago Marathon. Thanks to Fuel Goods, who is the sponsor of Bekeubust. Fuel Goods is a marketplace |
| 0:50.0 | where you can get all sorts of great fueling and hydration products. They have more than enough |
| 0:57.5 | to choose from, but not so much that it's super overwhelming. Some of my personal favorites are |
| 1:02.3 | scratch hydration. They make amazing fueling and hydration products. There's tailwind, which also |
| 1:09.2 | makes some great fueling and hydration products. |
| 1:12.1 | If you are someone who's looking to drink your calories on the run, I say that not in a |
| 1:16.0 | diet culture way, but in a way of you are an athlete who needs to fuel your runs and more |
| 1:20.8 | carbohydrates mean more energy. |
| 1:24.4 | Who else? |
| 1:25.1 | Precision hydration is a great hydration source. |
| 1:27.1 | You can get 500 milligram sodium options, |
| 1:29.6 | 1,000 milligram sodium options, 1,500 for all you use super salty sweaters. Salt stick. There choose. |
| 1:36.6 | Um, another great option for hydration, uh, resources to help with electrolytes there. And then in terms |
| 1:43.6 | of fueling, some of my favorites are |
| 1:45.0 | Martin. You can. Carbs. Do I say you can? I think I did. Scratch chews. Bonk breakers are another |
| 1:54.6 | candy kind of like a fueling source. I cannot stress enough how important it is to track your fueling and hydration |
| 2:02.8 | to figure out what works for you. If you don't have a plan, there is no plan. You can kind of |
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