Ep 18: Chasing Impossible Goals with Dr. Bob
Run, Selfie, Repeat
Kelly Roberts
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2017
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
I started chasing my impossible goal to qualify for the Boston Marathon (BQ) in April 2016. In order to qualify, I had to take myself and training seriously in order to take my personal best time from 3 hours and 59 minutes down to 3 hours and 35 minutes.
Ever wonder what it would be like if an amateur runner had the help of a sports psychologist? Meet Dr. Bob! The former head of Sports Psychology at UCLA and a licensed psychologist, Dr. Bob has helped me battle some of my toughest mental battles. Today, he's checking in with me as I approach my second Boston Marathon qualifying attempt.
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| 0:00.0 | We are the champions, my friends. |
| 0:07.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to episode 18 of the Run, Selfie Repeat podcast, where we normally talk about life with a side of running, but today we are talking about running. |
| 0:19.0 | Like totally running, all running. |
| 0:22.6 | It's going to be a big running day. |
| 0:24.6 | I'm your running obsessed friend, Kelly Roberts, and today I want to talk about my quest to |
| 0:30.6 | qualify for the Boston Marathon, BQ as we call it, in the running world. And basically my time over the past year trying to make |
| 0:42.5 | impossible possible. So a little backstory for all of you who do not know about what I've been doing, |
| 0:48.1 | but this all started in April of 2016 when I went to see the Boston Marathon for the first time, spectate it. |
| 0:56.5 | And I had a bunch of friends running. |
| 0:58.6 | It was fun to jump in. |
| 1:00.2 | And here's the story that I'm incredibly embarrassed to tell. |
| 1:06.5 | We were on the Newton Hills, which are these rolling hills that come before Heartbreak Hill. |
| 1:12.3 | Heartbreak Hill is a really famous hill in the Boston Marathon that it is just known for being |
| 1:18.6 | really difficult. |
| 1:19.8 | But on Instagram, the geo tag was Heartbreak Hill, so I assumed we were on Heartbreak Hill |
| 1:25.1 | because it was a hill. |
| 1:26.2 | And all of my friends, every time I would find them and jump in with them to run a mile or so and just like pep them up, I would tell them that they were on Heartbreak Hill and that it was almost over. |
| 1:38.3 | And I didn't know. |
| 1:39.7 | I didn't know. |
| 1:40.2 | I mean, super embarrassing, terrible mistake. |
| 1:43.1 | But slowly throughout the day, a whole bunch of text |
| 1:46.5 | messages rolled in from my friends being like, you are the effing worst. What is wrong with you? |
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