Ep 21: Am I An Athlete?

Run, Selfie, Repeat

Kelly Roberts

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2017

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

What makes someone an athlete?

That's what we're talking about because calling myself an athlete is something I've struggled with since day 1. From feeling "slow" to not feeling like I looked like an athlete, I've come up with every excuse in the book to keep myself from accepting that I am in fact an athlete. So let's talk about why I struggle to assume the identity of an athlete.

Thoughts? What do you think makes someone an athlete? Let me know in the comments below! And don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the Run, Selfie, Repeat podcast on iTunes or Google Play if you haven't already (insert salsa dancing emoji here).

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0:00.0	Check to check, check, check, check it out.
0:02.8	What, what, what, what's it all about?
0:06.5	Hey there, friends.
0:08.3	Welcome to episode 21 of the Run, selfie, repeat podcast.
0:14.2	Can you believe that there are 21 episodes of this podcast already?
0:18.8	What was I thinking?
0:26.9	Anyways, I'm your overachieving insane,
0:33.3	overextended friend Kelly Roberts, and I am ready to talk life with the side of running,
0:38.3	although today I think we're going to talk a little bit more running than life.
0:40.4	So let's jump into it.
0:48.6	Can we talk about what it means to be an athlete because for some crazy reason, it's a battle I have been losing since day one.
0:53.2	Am I an athlete?
0:57.7	My gut instinct is to say no and I know that it's not true and I know I'm an athlete but I just
1:05.7	can't bring myself to believe it, which is so stupid because I'm fighting so hard and it would be so
1:13.3	much easier to just like give up and be like, hell yeah, I'm an athlete. But for some reason,
1:19.0	I don't feel like an athlete. I mean, I run for a multitude of different reasons, but fun and
1:25.6	personal satisfaction are the two reasons I push myself to get
1:29.3	faster and stronger. I've never entered a race to win. I've never entered a race under the
1:34.1	impression that there was a possibility that I might even place in my age bracket.
1:39.2	Whenever I tow the starting line, my goal is always to have the best time possible while
1:43.2	pushing myself to run my
1:44.5	personal best effort. Whatever that means that day. Come April, I'm running for a Boston Marathon
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