I survived my first half ironman
Run, Selfie, Repeat
Kelly Roberts
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Have an hour? Because I did my first half ironman and no one asked for this but I HAVE to talk about the entire ordeal.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh! I'm alive. I'm alive, everyone. I did it. I didn't die. Just try. Don't die. That |
| 0:10.3 | was the mantra from months and months and months ago, and we did it. Hi, everyone. Welcome |
| 0:16.0 | to the Run Selfie Repeat Podcast, where we talk about life with a side of running. |
| 0:20.0 | Today's all about triathlons and living. Don't die. Don't die. I feel like I said that |
| 0:27.4 | to myself a hundred times this weekend. For those of you who don't know, I on Saturday |
| 0:34.0 | completed my first half-iron man ever. I didn't even finish the introduction. My name's |
| 0:39.6 | Kelly Roberts. Oh my goodness. I did it. I'm a half-iron man. I hate saying that. Half-iron woman. |
| 0:49.3 | I'm a half-iron person. I don't know. It was so awful, everybody, and I... I'm not done talking |
| 0:56.7 | about it. I'm making an episode about it. We're going to talk about everything. We're going to |
| 1:02.1 | talk about training. We're going to talk about the race. We're going to talk about it all because I |
| 1:06.1 | just need to trauma dump. That's not true. I genuinely want to talk about it because I have a |
| 1:16.6 | little bit of hindsight now. It's been two days since it happened. I'm not very sore. I'm a little |
| 1:25.4 | sore, which is shocking to me because I went so hard. But let's go back to the beginning. I've |
| 1:32.4 | always wanted to do a half-iron man. I don't know why. Actually, that's not true. I've always wanted |
| 1:36.8 | to do an iron man or a half-iron man. I've always wanted to do a triathlon. And ever since I ran, |
| 1:42.4 | a marathon, it was always in the back of my mind that I wanted to do this. I grew up in San Diego, |
| 1:48.2 | which is like the triathlon capital of the world. I grew up around people watching people cycle. |
| 1:53.6 | I never did it myself. I grew up in the ocean and obviously did not run until later in life. |
| 2:00.4 | I never like swim, swim. My dad was a pack-ten swimmer. He swam at Berkeley, |
| 2:07.3 | tried to go to the Olympics. It was a very, very, very accomplished, strong swimmer. He never |
| 2:13.1 | allowed us. I wouldn't say he didn't allow us to swim, but he definitely didn't want us on |
| 2:18.8 | any swim teams. He didn't go out of his way to put us on swim teams. He also, I mean, |
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