EP 11: Why We Struggle To Call Ourselves Real Runners

Run, Selfie, Repeat

Kelly Roberts

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2017

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Struggling to call yourself a "real runner"? I had the hardest time believing that I was a runner for years! I know the “real runner” versus “fake runner/not real runner/imposter runner” (what do we call ourselves when we’re in runner limbo?) debate seems to be black and white, but for anyone struggling to assume the believe that they're a real runner, it’s a lot harder than just getting permission to call ourselves runners. Let's talk about the real runner struggle, shall we?

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0:00.0	Hey ladies and gentlemen, welcome to episode 11 of the Run, selfie, repeat podcast. I am your
0:10.5	lady host, Kelly Roberts, and I'm ready to talk about life with the side of running. How about
0:17.4	you? First, actually, can I take a second to say that this is going well? I have to be
0:23.1	honest, I launched the run selfie repeat podcast because I'm working on another show and I was
0:29.6	feeling really insecure about my lack of experience in the podcasting world, i.e. that I didn't have any.
0:37.1	And for me, the best way to walk into a room confidently
0:39.6	and ask people for money when I don't know what I'm doing is to at least be able to say that I've
0:44.3	done it. And I don't know what I expected, but I did not expect it to go this well. I feel like that's really terrible of me to say. But thanks to you all,
0:59.4	we've hit over 10,000 listens so far. And that number is mind boggling because the podcast
1:05.8	is only like two weeks old. So thank you for listening and thank you for sharing it and
1:10.1	reviewing and rating it
1:11.4	because without you, I wouldn't be doing this and I wouldn't have the courage to sit in my
1:17.1	parents' garage, aka my posh recording studio, and talk to you all about my deepest, darkest fears and
1:26.3	the things that I tie a lot of shame and
1:28.0	embarrassment to. So this is going really well. This is great. Thank you. But serious, I know I joke,
1:34.8	but I thank you. I really am really grateful. But let's get down to bearsness. I had to do that. Okay, today I want to talk about the struggle that so many of us
1:47.7	face in calling ourselves real runners because it's easily one of the hardest parts about
1:53.5	becoming a runner. And I say that gently because becoming a runner and the physical act is
1:59.3	obviously the hardest part. But for so many of us
2:03.8	struggling to call ourselves runners and believe it is really, really, really hard. And that struggle is
2:08.9	very real. I mean, I remember when I was first bit by the running bug, I'd like spend a lot of
2:15.3	time on Pinterest because I felt so cool that I was a runner and all this all these inside running jokes made sense to me all the sudden and I was I mean I fell down all the runners world women's running you know running article black holes and I would just spend all my free time in the running world because I thought it was so cool that I was running.
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