Project 1:59 Week 6 Training Recap
Run, Selfie, Repeat
Kelly Roberts
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In 2019, after my third attempt to BQ, I stopped chasing my impossible dream to qualify for the Boston marathon after running 3 hours 42 minutes in the marathon. (Missing my BQ by 12 minutes). 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!
Week 6 of training to break 2 hours in the half marathon (I'm calling this Project 1:59) is finished. So let's talk about it!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody. Welcome to the Run Selfy Repeat podcast where we talk about life |
| 0:06.0 | with the sight of running. This is less of life with the side of running if you |
| 0:10.0 | listen to many of the other podcast episodes over the years where there are |
| 0:15.0 | short weekly PEP talks. This is Project 159 where I have been week by week |
| 0:20.5 | kind of like breaking down my training as I chase down this huge giant |
| 0:25.2 | moonshot seemingly insurmountable kind of sort of impossible goal to try to qualify for the Boston |
| 0:32.0 | marathon in order to qualify for the Boston Marathon. In order to qualify for the Boston |
| 0:35.0 | Marathon for myself at my age group I need to run a three hour 30 minute |
| 0:39.8 | marathon. Tragic. It was supposed to be 335 but they just changed the standard like weeks ago. |
| 0:47.0 | Big sigh. |
| 0:51.0 | I have tried for three I tried for three years to qualify for the Boston |
| 0:56.6 | Marathon. I took my marathon time from four hours I should say sub five sub four |
| 1:00.8 | Three 59 because I fought like hell for that sub 4. |
| 1:03.6 | Down to in my first try 342, and then I got hurt, |
| 1:08.5 | my second try, so kind of a wash. |
| 1:12.1 | And then my third try that I spent well I should say I spent the next like year and a half coming back from an injury and then my next try I did 337 so still off and so I decided I wanted to try again because 335 was my new age group and then |
| 1:29.3 | they changed the standard like two weeks after I announced so now we're back to 330 which is fine because the |
| 1:34.3 | time really is irrelevant it is all I mean it's not irrelevant I'm not going to say |
| 1:39.3 | it's irrelevant because it is relevant and in order to qualify for the Boston Marathon I need to run a |
| 1:43.3 | 330 now not the 335 but the journey from A to B is still the same you do the |
| 1:50.4 | work you show up you give your best and your best is all you have right if it's |
| 1:54.5 | enough to get into the Boston Marathon and be cute great if it's not you're still going to walk |
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