This is how we do it.

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Okay.

Hey, you guys, welcome to episode five of the Run, Selfie Repeat Podcast.

I'm Kelly Roberts, the person who gives you really strange introductions, like the one that we just did right now.

I'm feeling kind of embarrassed and worried about

what you're going to think of that. And I could really easily go back and redo it, but I feel like

that would diminish the entire point of today's episode. And I'm not kidding, that was not planned.

Let's talk about the shame game. Because when you play the shame game,

no one wins. There are no winners when you play the shame game. And what brought me to this was

today I had one of those. I had easily the world's worst long run that I've had of my Boston Marathon Qualifying Marathon, hell.

Just kidding.

This training season has gone fine.

It's been fine.

It's been great.

I'm getting stronger.

It's happening.

But today I had to run 14.

I got to run.

I'm trying to change how I talk about how I run. So I don't say I have to run. I say I get to run. So you'll hear me correcting myself a lot. But today I got to run 14 miles. And here's a little TMI. I'm on my period. Let's not make periods weird and gross because you know they're a part of part of life and you're going to hear about it. So deal with it. And I just, my body was not having it. And like the second I had to start doing these four, I had to do two, two mile pushes in the middle at my marathon pace, which is eight minutes, 15 seconds per mile to all my friends abroad. I'm so sorry I don't know what that means per

kilometer. But it was bad. It was like really bad. My stomach was in cramps the entire time.

And I had to make multiple bathroom stops. And it was just a rough day. Rough day. Ran really well.

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