Week 7 Chicago Marathon Training Recap: Shoe Testing, Achilles Struggles & Fueling Strategy
Run, Selfie, Repeat
Kelly Roberts
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🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Week 7 of Chicago Marathon training is in the books! This week brought some challenges but also some exciting gear testing and continued progress on race day preparation.
What's Covered in This Episode:
🏃♀️ Shoe Review Trio:
- Mizuno Wave Sky 9 Running Shoe - Full breakdown of comfort, cushioning, and performance
- ASICS Nova Blast 5 - Testing the latest iteration of this popular trainer
- ASICS Gel Nimbus 27 - How the newest Nimbus handles higher mileage
💪 Training Reality Check: A real look at managing achilles and soleus struggles during marathon training - the good, the challenging, and how I'm adapting my approach while staying on track for Chicago.
⚡ Fueling & Nutrition Strategy Deep Dive: Watch me continue to plan, test, and tweak my race day fueling and hydration strategy. If you've ever wondered how to figure out what works for YOUR body during long runs and races, this is your behind-the-scenes look at the trial-and-error process that gets you to race day confidence.
Whether you're training for your first marathon or your fiftieth, seeing the real process of strategy development can help you dial in your own approach!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, gang. Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Run, Selfie Repeat podcast where we talk about life |
| 0:07.7 | with the side of running, but this is BQ robust. It's a weekly blog. This is all running all the time. |
| 0:13.7 | This is a blog. So I'm turning the blogs into podcasts, but there will be things that may not make |
| 0:20.3 | total sense listening or you're going to hear some like music interludes. |
| 0:23.8 | And that's just me doing my strength work. |
| 0:25.6 | So if you want to just like use your imagination, I'm just like lifting 150, 300 pounds, you know, like just a really impressive stuff. |
| 0:33.8 | But a quick thank you to the sponsor of Bekeurubust, feel goods. |
| 0:39.4 | Something you're going to hear a lot of in this episode is me figuring out my my fueling and hydration strategy um if you want to see it |
| 0:47.2 | i put the excel sheet that i'm using up on the screen you can also go to youtube and check it out |
| 0:53.2 | but fuel goods is really helping |
| 0:55.9 | me dial in all the products, all the things I need to train my gut and feel my best on race day. |
| 1:03.5 | One of the reasons I wanted to partner with Fuel Goods was after my last BQ attempt. I really do |
| 1:09.1 | believe I probably could have done it had Had I just taken 25 or 30 percent |
| 1:14.0 | more carbohydrates, I just didn't get what I needed. I was in the high hormone phase. I should |
| 1:18.7 | have been taking more. I dialed the hydration piece in, but I just didn't understand the fueling |
| 1:24.1 | side of it as well as I should have. So when I reached out to fuel goods, I told |
| 1:29.1 | them, you know, too many people leave this part up to chance and they just kind of like do whatever. |
| 1:34.7 | And I don't want to do whatever. I want to do exactly what I know works because you feel so different |
| 1:39.5 | when you get the amount of carbohydrates you need. I feel like I talked about this after I ran the Philly |
| 1:44.5 | half marathon last November, which if you watched Project 159 where I was trying to see if I could |
| 1:49.4 | break two and set myself up to try to BQ, I took more than enough and I felt so alert and calm |
| 1:56.3 | and with it the entire race. And I was like, yeah, I made the right choice this feels so so different this is how |
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