Ep 37: Set Backs, Speed Bumps, and Detours
Run, Selfie, Repeat
Kelly Roberts
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
After working tirelessly towards a goal, it can be devastating when the unexpected happens. Maybe it's an injury, or you get sick, or maybe your car won't start before a big interview. If there's one thing we can all count on it's that we have to expect the unexpected. But even when we know that set backs, speed bumps, and detours are inevitable, they are always difficult to manage. Sports Psychology wizard Dr. Bob joins us to talk about what it means to do your best when you're struggling to think your best is good enough.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, don't, don't, don't, don't, another one bites the dust. |
| 0:05.3 | I was going to sing a really emo song, but I couldn't think of any. |
| 0:09.4 | And then that song just popped in my head, so there it was. |
| 0:12.8 | A little context. |
| 0:14.1 | Hey, everyone, welcome to episode 37 of the Run, Sulfur Repeat podcast. |
| 0:19.6 | Everybody grabbed some Doritos and some sheetcake because today's all |
| 0:27.6 | about a pity party. No, I'm just kidding. We're not having a pity party. I am your host, Kelly Roberts, |
| 0:32.1 | and today I want to talk about something that's really throwing a monkey wrench into my life, and that's setbacks, |
| 0:39.6 | speed bumps, and detours. So for a little context, last year I set this goal to try to take |
| 0:45.0 | my marathon personal best time from three hours and 59 minutes, which felt ridiculously fast |
| 0:51.2 | and impossible at the time. But it happened, And I decided to try to take it down to |
| 0:55.7 | three hours and 35 minutes and cut a casual, what, what is that, 25 minutes off my marathon time |
| 1:04.0 | so that I could try to qualify for the Boston Marathon. It was an impossible goal. It's been |
| 1:07.9 | truly terrifying and difficult. And I feel like I have not been normal |
| 1:13.9 | for a year. It's been amazing. I've learned so much more about myself than I ever anticipated. |
| 1:21.0 | Who knew running fast could teach you so much about yourself? But it's been a lot of blood sweat |
| 1:27.1 | and all the tears, like all of the tears, like there's an entire |
| 1:31.6 | blog series on YouTube of me crying in a camera. But so after a first failed attempt, not failed, |
| 1:40.6 | I missed my goal by six minutes the first time I tried and joined the Chicago Marathon and it was a huge win, huge, huge, huge win. So I don't want to say failure. But I still |
| 1:48.4 | missed the goal. So I decided to try again during the London Marathon, which is now three weeks away. |
| 1:54.3 | And everything has been going really, really, really, really, really well. The first month of |
| 1:59.5 | training in January was really, really, really, really, really well. The first month of training in January was really, really, |
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