I Want To Try To Qualify For The Boston Marathon Again...BQ Or Bust Is Back
Run, Selfie, Repeat
Kelly Roberts
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
5 years ago, I stopped chasing my impossible dream to qualify for the Boston marathon. Well...BQ OR BUST take 4! But it all starts with spending the next 12-weeks training to break 2 hours in the half marathon. The Philly Half Marathon to be exact. Every week I'll be breaking down my training here so watch or tune in!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Run Selfy Repeat Podcast, everybody. This is a very exciting day! |
| 0:08.0 | In real time, it's September 1st, 2024, and this is a new series. |
| 0:14.0 | Be Cure Bust is back. |
| 0:16.0 | I want to try to qualify for the Boston Marathon again, |
| 0:20.0 | but here's the thing. |
| 0:22.0 | We're doing a layover because qualifying for the Boston marathon is a very long-term goal. |
| 0:29.0 | We're talking September, October, October, November, January, February, March, possibly April, seven months, |
| 0:41.1 | maybe May, June, July, August, September, October, maybe 13 months. I don't know. I don't know. |
| 0:48.0 | I don't know. But I can tell you that I want to try to qualify for the Boston Marathon again and we're doing a layover with Project 159. |
| 1:00.0 | This little 12 week mini seriesseries inside of Bique Rabass where the first |
| 1:06.4 | little test is to see if I can break two and a half marathon because right now I |
| 1:11.0 | don't think well I know I can't if someone said to me |
| 1:13.9 | Kelly tomorrow a million dollars is yours if you can break two hours and a half |
| 1:18.0 | marathon I physically couldn't do it right there's one thing not believing in yourself and there's another |
| 1:24.7 | thing of like having delusion and I know physiologically speaking where I'm at with my |
| 1:30.3 | running and I could not break two hours and a half marathon. I think I could get to |
| 1:38.3 | 7 maybe I think I could make that happen but two hours is probably not, maybe two or five, but not two. |
| 1:46.4 | But 12 weeks, I do think if I train really specifically that I might be able to make it happen. I also don't know if that's a safe goal if that is something I'm going to to surpass I don't know I'm excited to try and I'm excited to get into it but for those |
| 2:04.6 | of you who don't know 2016 I started this blog series called be-kewer bust I had just broke four hours in the marathon and by running 359 and change and I went to see the Boston Marathon for the first time and I was sitting at dinner at a bar with some friends. |
| 2:27.8 | One of them had just ran the marathon and she was like, Kelly, I don't know why you don't try to do this. |
| 2:32.1 | Why don't you do Boston try to qualify it? And I was like, Kelly, I don't know why you don't try to do this. |
| 2:32.6 | Why don't you do Boston try to qualify it? |
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