Ep 69: Take The Shame Out Of Quitting

Run, Selfie, Repeat

Kelly Roberts

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2017

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Quitting is always an option, but so is going forward. Before running, I would quit anything I struggled with. And despite the fact that running is still, to this day, really, really f*cking hard, it reminds me that I can't shy away from the things that I have to work for. It helps me remember that I'm not a quitter.

Across my social channels, from Facebook, Instagram, to Strava, I’ve asked people who, like me, come with a history of giving up, what changed for them. And their answers are really eye opening because this isn’t one size fits all. It’s another reason why all of our stories are so important.

I asked - "Serious question. This one is for anyone who has struggled to get and stay active in the past. What changed? Did you ever quit? If so, what made you want to try again? And most importantly, what made you want to stick with it? We often talk about the advice we'd give to someone struggling but I want to hear your struggle. What did you go through and what kept you fighting?"

Your answers were honest, vulnerable, unique, but shared the same commonality, running and being active changed the way you saw and felt about yourself and what you were capable of.

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody, and welcome to episode 69 of the Run, Selfie Repeat podcast where we talk about
0:06.0	life with the side of running. I wish you could see me right now. I'm literally sitting here
0:10.0	with my hands above my head. Why they're above my head, I don't know. I don't know. My name is
0:17.0	Kelly Roberts. Don't worry, my hands are by my side again. In today's episode, it's an
0:22.3	important one. I want to talk more about a mantra of mine that really keeps me fighting.
0:28.3	It's this quitting is always an option, but so is going forward. And more specifically, I want to
0:33.7	talk about getting and staying active when you're someone who has really struggled to enjoy
0:38.7	working out or just the struggle that is staying motivated. Because let's be honest, lazy is a word that I,
0:46.4	for a long time, thought that I was because working out and being active wasn't something that I
0:51.6	enjoyed and it wasn't something that I was very good at.
0:54.7	And it's still not something I'm very good at.
0:57.5	But before I crossed the finish line in my first half marathon back in 2013, I never
1:02.3	ever thought that running would be something that I would want to do.
1:06.0	I never thought I'd find a way to be active that wasn't motivated by weight loss.
1:10.2	It's not even that I even had that
1:11.7	conscious thought. I just didn't know it was the thing. But you know, here we are. We're spreading the
1:15.9	word. We're changing it because enough is enough. And honestly, lazy is a terrible word to describe
1:21.2	someone who doesn't plan their every waking moment around when they're going to get a workout in
1:27.0	or like when they can run another half
1:29.3	marathon because I know those people I am one of those people I've become that person and that's
1:36.0	just not how most people work and just because there are people who don't enjoy being active or
1:40.9	who don't think that they can ever enjoy being active doesn't mean that they're
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