Ep 78: You Best Effort Is What Matters
Run, Selfie, Repeat
Kelly Roberts
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2017
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes our best effort is just showing up. Other times, it's pushing yourself to keep fighting with everything you have. It's been four months since I last raced and after this weekend, I have an even clearer understanding of why our personal best effort is all that matters.
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| 0:00.0 | Don't need nothing but a good time. That's what I, that's what I kept singing all the entire |
| 0:08.4 | race during the Philly half marathon this weekend. But we'll talk about that in a second. |
| 0:15.6 | Hi, hi, hi, hi, welcome to episode 78 of the Run Solve Therapy podcast, where we talk about life with |
| 0:22.1 | the side of running, although today is going to be a lot of running, so disclaimer. |
| 0:27.1 | My name is Kelly Roberts, and today on the podcast, I want to talk about something really, |
| 0:32.7 | really, really important to me, but something that's pretty difficult to understand unless you've |
| 0:38.1 | experienced and felt it yourself. And that is why your best effort is what matters. |
| 0:45.1 | Normally when someone's talking about their personal best, they're talking about a time that |
| 0:50.2 | they got that blows their previous personal best time out of the water. And yes, a personal |
| 0:55.9 | best can be measured or reflected in a time or some sort of score. But I think personal best |
| 1:05.2 | is really something that only you can feel and sense and define. And I know we've talked about this before, like why |
| 1:13.4 | a personal best is more important than a personal record to me, but it's been a while. And here's |
| 1:17.4 | where I want to start. So last summer, when I was training to qualify for the Boston Marathon, |
| 1:22.4 | BQ during the Chicago Marathon, when I was doing all that BQ bus training, there came a point where I was really |
| 1:29.8 | feeling defeated and frustrated because I wasn't getting any faster and I didn't think I was |
| 1:34.5 | getting stronger or I wasn't progressing. Not only was I like months into training, but my pace |
| 1:40.4 | was still not where I thought it should be. And I felt like I was always dying, always, |
| 1:47.1 | even my easy runs. I had this perception of what progress should feel and look like. |
| 1:52.2 | And what I thought I was experienced didn't feel like progress. And I kept telling my coach, |
| 1:57.5 | Josh Mayo, the wonderful and amazing Josh, that I was frustrated and that it just wasn't cut out |
| 2:04.2 | for me and that I wanted to stop. And he kept reassuring me that I was getting stronger. He told me |
| 2:08.9 | that the heat and the humidity made everything, every single workout twice as difficult and made |
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