Ep 106: It's Not All About Race Day
Run, Selfie, Repeat
Kelly Roberts
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2018
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
About a month ago, I decided I wasn't going to spend time on Twitter. The pessimism, the rage, the backhanded jabs, it was contagious. I felt myself going there only to complain or make really stupid jokes and I didn't like how I felt scrolling through my news feed so I deleted the app off my phone and decided to only check it once or twice a week.
Best decision I ever made.
But a few days ago, I jumped on to check on things and saw a tweet and a retweet that I want to talk about. It said "Training is not the test. The race is the test." And I find it disappointing that people in the community again fail to see that yes, for some people race day IS the test. But for the vast majority of the running community, everything is a test.
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| 0:00.0 | I don't know why I have Indiana Jones stuck in my head right now. |
| 0:03.4 | And all I keep thinking, every time I try to form a sentence is, |
| 0:06.4 | dun dun da-da-da-da-da. |
| 0:09.0 | And so I'm having a very hard time focusing right now |
| 0:11.3 | because all I keep thinking about is Indiana Jones. |
| 0:14.1 | I don't even know why I've never even seen that movie. |
| 0:17.9 | Anyways, hi everybody. |
| 0:20.6 | Welcome back to the on Selfie Repeat podcast, where we talk about life |
| 0:24.0 | with a side of running. My name is Kelly Roberts, and today on the podcast, I really want to |
| 0:29.5 | talk about something that makes my head spin, and that's bugging the hell out of me. And that's what |
| 0:34.4 | happens when you only see Race Day as a sign of success or failure. |
| 0:39.3 | But before I hop on my soapbox and rip into the tweet that got me going, |
| 0:44.0 | a very quick shout out to the sponsor of this episode, it's Squarespace. |
| 0:48.4 | Squarespace is the website hosting platform that I turned to when I was starting my blog and feeling really, really overwhelmed. |
| 0:55.8 | And I'm pretty much 100% certain that had I tried to design and create my website on a |
| 1:01.3 | different platform that was not Squarespace, that I would not have a blog and a podcast today. |
| 1:06.5 | Why? |
| 1:07.1 | Because I'm not very tech savvy or design savvy. |
| 1:09.7 | And I get really frustrated and overwhelmed |
| 1:11.9 | what I'm trying to do both of those things. And I don't know what I'm doing. And thanks to Squarespace, |
| 1:18.3 | honestly, thanks to my sister for making me try Squarespace. I was able to create both a blog |
| 1:24.8 | and a podcast on Squarespace. So if you're looking to share your voice |
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