Remember when I used to open these with a song? I think I just did at least 12 tries to open with a song, and it just feels silly. Now, it doesn't feel funny like it used to. So you know what? Screw it. No song opening today. Hi, everybody. I'm Kelly Roberts. And I am, I'm your host. I am the host of

the Run Self-He-Repeat podcast where we talk about life with a side of running. Today, this podcast, I want to

talk about getting started and patiently suffering because this is something that I just

finally moved through, that first

initial few terrible, awful BS-e first few weeks. And it's something that I think I have a little

bit of a different take than other people on, which is why I want to talk about it, because sometimes

I read stuff and I just want to light my hair on fire.

But yeah, it starts with this, social media, right?

Social media is just infuriating sometimes.

And it's curated.

We all know it's curated.

We aren't like stopping to say, hey, I am really anxious about my finances right now.

So I'm going to take a picture and post it to

Instagram to talk about this. Or like, today I feel like a total failure and I feel ugly and I feel

heavy and I feel stupid and I'm just, you know, loathing myself. So let me stunt about how shitty I

feel right now on Instagram. Hashtag blessed, right?

Like that doesn't happen. And even though we all know that, could you imagine if we did though,

oh, that would be just, I, that's the only time you should ever use. Hashtag blessed. No, even though, you know, we all know that we only share what we want people to

celebrate and see and know in our best of moments for the most part. Or for me, recently,

it's been a lot of professional photographs that I get because every time I run with Nike Project

Moonshot with my fam,

we have professional photographers on hand because, you know, that's normal.

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