BQ Or Bust Week 8: When Marathon Training Gets BRUTAL (And How I'm Pushing Through)
Run, Selfie, Repeat
Kelly Roberts
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The mental game is EVERYTHING right now. Week 8 of Chicago Marathon training hit like a freight train - swampy weather, feeling like absolute crap, and zero motivation to lace up. This is the part of training that can break you... or make you stronger.
In this episode, I'm getting real about the difference between being hurt and just feeling run down, how I'm managing my recovering achilles and calf, and why physical therapy saved my training cycle. Most importantly, I'm sharing the mental strategies that are keeping me going when everything feels heavy: staying present, focusing on TODAY, and finding those tiny pockets of joy even when it's hard.
If you're in the thick of training and struggling, this one's for you. Sometimes the strongest thing you can do is just show up.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi gang. Welcome to the Run, Selfie Repeat podcast where we talk about life with the side of running, |
| 0:07.5 | although this is a BQ or bust episode where we are going to talk a lot about running and |
| 0:14.6 | mainly my marathon training. I don't know why I'm talking like this. I'm going to stop that immediately. |
| 0:20.4 | How's everybody doing? |
| 0:21.6 | You're going to hear me complain a lot today. |
| 0:24.4 | This was a tough week. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm tired. |
| 0:27.3 | I'm in that point of marathon training where I just wanted to be over. |
| 0:30.6 | I'm in that. |
| 0:31.4 | I'm never doing a marathon phase of marathon training again. |
| 0:34.9 | So, yeah, it's about staying present, doing your best, and getting through it |
| 0:39.4 | without letting how you feel dictate how you perform. So all this is to say, when you're feeling |
| 0:47.1 | like this, can I just like triple circle how important you're feeling in hydration is? |
| 0:51.9 | Because literally, if you're not getting enough calories |
| 0:56.7 | in when you're in a bad mood or you're really tired, oh my God, is everything going to go downhill |
| 1:02.4 | fast? I cannot be more grateful that I do the hydration and fueling work and that I have a plan. |
| 1:08.9 | Otherwise, like my long run would have been a mess this week. |
| 1:11.4 | So if you need help, go to Fuel Goods. |
| 1:13.5 | There are not only the sponsor of this entire journey, BeCureBust, |
| 1:18.2 | but they are a marketplace where you can get fueling and hydration sources. |
| 1:22.1 | And they actually have a really amazing new feature on their website. If you want to figure out how many grams of carbs an hour |
| 1:31.1 | you're getting if you make your cart with single servings of what you use it shows you how many |
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