Do I look tired because I feel tired? I say that knowing this is a podcast but you can watch this on the YouTube.

Hi everybody! It's me! It's Coach Kelly. Welcome to the Run Selfy Repeat Podcast, where we talk about life with a side of running.

Though this time of year, this season of my life, I'm talking a lot about running because this isn't our short weekly pep talks this is

Project 159 it's our little layover on the way to be cure bust which I don't, looking at how training with this week is starting to feel more plausible

for spring.

So I don't know, I mean, listen, know I don't know we still have weeks of training

left before the half and then I'll really have a good idea of whether or not a

spring half marathon or spring marathon or a fall marathon in 2025 is the thing.

For those of you who are like what's going on?

Hello.

In 2016 I started chasing this huge giant seemingly impossible goal to try to qualify for the Boston

Marathon, BQ for short.

I know bequeuing is very in vogue and very hip and cool and everybody's trying to do it.

I've been trying to do it like many for a very long time.

A very long time now.

And yeah, I haven't done it I've tried three real real goes at it for if you

include New York which we're not but I've been trying to train for pretty much three years I

chased this big goal and I took a huge giant break for a multitude of reasons, but

last year after watching the Chicago marathon I don't know something inside of me was like I just really want to try again and I

Sat on it and talk and and and talked about it with people and kind of came to the conclusion.

I think I'm ready to try again.

The only difference was at the beginning of this year I was a 12 to 13 minute

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