Ep 72: Embracing Failure and Believing In Yourself
Run, Selfie, Repeat
Kelly Roberts
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2017
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The past few months have been tough. Trying to pick myself back up, brush myself off, and figure out how to move forward after this year's London Marathon has been anything but easy. But today, TODAY was a big day. And well...let's talk about what's next and why it's so important to believe in yourself.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, don't call it a comeback. Hey everybody. Welcome to episode 72 of the run, selfie, repeat podcast. |
| 0:12.1 | Where we talk about, I don't know what that was, where we talk about life with the side of running. |
| 0:17.6 | Although, disclaimer, today is going to be a lot more running with a dash of life. |
| 0:23.0 | So, if you're not a runner, bear with me. I have to talk about what happened this morning because |
| 0:30.0 | it was a giant bound leap, step forward. Alrighty, backstory. This year, this year has been like easily the most |
| 0:41.2 | transformative year I've ever had as a runner. Between January and the end of March, the transformation |
| 0:47.9 | I saw in myself and how I saw and felt about my strength and capabilities just like blossomed into a cheesy |
| 0:57.2 | flower reference. There's that. Take it or leave it. But, uh, okay, let me backtrack this whole story. |
| 1:05.1 | This whole crazy journey started last year in April, question mark of 2016 when I saw the Boston |
| 1:09.8 | marathon in person for the first time. |
| 1:12.0 | I like caught myself telling a couple of friends that I'd never be able to take myself seriously |
| 1:15.7 | enough to run a Boston Marathon qualifying time because it was impossible. If you don't know, |
| 1:20.4 | in order to run the Boston Marathon, you have to qualify for the Boston Marathon. You can't just run it. |
| 1:25.3 | And the qualifying time is really difficult. So I told my friends |
| 1:29.8 | that it just, it wasn't about me not wanting to do it or not feeling a need to do it. What frustrated me |
| 1:35.7 | was that I had limited myself and said that it was impossible. And it rubbed me the wrong way for like a |
| 1:41.2 | week or two or three or whatever. and then Beyonce dropped lemonade and I watched |
| 1:45.9 | the visual album and I was so overwhelmed and inspired I had to take a nap and then I woke up and I just |
| 1:51.7 | knew that I had to go for it. I had to prove to myself whether or not I could actually qualify for the |
| 1:58.6 | Boston Marathon because I had told myself that I wasn't |
| 2:01.5 | capable of doing it. And I knew I had to at least go for it. And granted, like those first few weeks, |
| 2:06.2 | I totally thought that I would give up halfway through and decide that it wasn't worth it, that, |
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