Why I Kept Running: The Badass Lady Gang and I Share How We Became Runners
Run, Selfie, Repeat
Kelly Roberts
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2019
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
There is an infinite number of articles online offering tips and tricks to go for that first run. They’re great. READ THEM! But you don’t need to know what you’re doing or have special shoes or gear to become a runner. If you’re looking for a plan, check out my guided runs. I have 8 weeks of podcast episodes that will guide and distract you through those first two months of running. (You can download my free 8K Become A Runner Plan Here)
The hardest part about becoming a runner isn’t that first run. It’s sticking with it.
I asked the Badass Lady Gang what clicked for them. What was the reason they didn’t give up after their first few runs? Why Did You Keep Running? Their stories are inspiring as hell! If you’re looking to become a runner but are afraid you’ll quit or won’t be able to stick with it, read their stories to both be inspired and reminded that you aren’t alone with your fears and anxieties.
Then lace up whatever shoes you have and see what happens. TODAY IS ALWAYS THE DAY.
Today is all about talking about why I kept running.
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| 0:00.0 | It's time. I don't know what that is. Hi everybody. Welcome to the Run. Selfy Repeat |
| 0:11.3 | podcast where we talk about life with a sight of running. |
| 0:14.0 | My name is Kelly Roberts and I am here today because I want to talk about something that |
| 0:19.5 | means the whole entire world to me. |
| 0:23.5 | I want to talk about getting started. |
| 0:27.0 | And not just getting started, but sticking with it. |
| 0:30.6 | Oh my, oh my, oh my, oh my, oh my, my. |
| 0:33.0 | This is a subject that is so near and dear to my heart |
| 0:37.0 | because I can vividly remember the dreams |
| 0:40.0 | that I would paint in my head |
| 0:42.0 | about the day I'd make a change and was like finally able to stick with it after I made the change. |
| 0:48.0 | I mean for decades I would try to go to the gym and become someone who enjoyed going to the gym. |
| 0:55.0 | I tried to be that person and like just like desperately clawed my way to be that |
| 0:59.7 | person and I never became that person. |
| 1:02.5 | I mean, or the amount of times that I thought I could finally become a runner. |
| 1:07.0 | I mean, Jesus Christ, billions and billions and billions of times, I think I imagined what my life |
| 1:12.0 | would be like if I could become a runner, what I would look like, what I would act like, the friends that I would have. |
| 1:17.0 | I was a theater kid when I was, when I was growing up I did theater everywhere and anywhere and I made anyone |
| 1:26.1 | who caught my gaze watch me do something I was that kid I was a ham and I do remember like seeing the sporty kids and the girls who did |
| 1:36.8 | lacrosse and field or field hockey hockey lacrosse are the same thing are |
| 1:41.4 | they different I don't know soccer you name it and I secretly felt just like so envious that they were capable of |
| 1:50.7 | Being athletic because I always wished I could. |
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