Project 1:59 Week 8 Training Recap
Run, Selfie, Repeat
Kelly Roberts
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2024
⏱️ 60 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 8 of training to break 2 hours in the half marathon (I'm calling this Project 1:59) is finished and so is my 10K!!!! This week, I raced the Sleepy Hollow 10K to get an idea of where my fitness is at.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody. Welcome to the Run Selfy Repeat Podcast where normally we're talking life with the site of running |
| 0:06.4 | but this is a Project 159 episode. We're talking running running running running and all things running because I'm training my name's Kelly Roberts. I'm the founder of the badass lady gang and the host of this podcast. I am a running coach if we've never met before and I've been a running |
| 0:26.0 | influencer for a really really long time well over a decade now so I've been |
| 0:31.4 | around the block baby. |
| 0:33.0 | I've been podcasting forever. |
| 0:36.0 | I've been talking about myself forever |
| 0:38.0 | and I'm here to talk about myself some more. |
| 0:40.0 | All right, Project 159, what's happening? Right now I am training for a half marathon. I have spent all of this year trying to get back into fighting shape because in the back of my mind I've had this idea to try to |
| 0:57.4 | qualify for the Boston Marathon again. |
| 1:00.4 | The Boston Marathon is often referred to as the everyday person's Olympics. |
| 1:07.0 | In order to qualify for the Boston Marathon, you need to run a Boston Marathon qualifying time which is set by I'm assuming the BAA the |
| 1:16.5 | Boston Athletic Association who runs the Boston Marathon I wanted to do it because I |
| 1:21.6 | was turning 35 this year which meant when I decided to announce that I was doing this again |
| 1:28.0 | my qualifying time was moving from three hours and 30 minutes to three hours and 35 minutes because I was |
| 1:33.8 | aging up. So there are different standards for different age groups and my last |
| 1:40.4 | age group when I first started trying to be Q back in 2016, it was 335. And I trained and trained and trained. I took my my time my marathon time from three hours and |
| 1:55.1 | 59 minutes and some change down to three hours and 42 minutes and change but fell |
| 2:00.9 | short of qualifying for Boston but finished being like okay I can do this I |
| 2:05.0 | really believe I can do this which was exciting and so shortly after that they announced |
| 2:11.3 | that the new time was three hours and 30 minutes all of our standards removed because so many people were trying to qualify for the Boston marathon and the way the Boston marathon works is there are X amount of spots for each age group and gender. |
| 2:25.6 | And I was like, that's okay. I think I can do that. I feel really confident that |
| 2:31.7 | this is really challenging and hard, but I think I can do it because I get it I understand how this works I believe in myself now and I think I can do it |
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