Messy miles, honest coaching, real momentum.
Run, Selfie, Repeat follows Kelly Roberts through the messy middle of running goals, from BQ or Bust workouts to race-week fear. It mixes practical coaching, body-honest training logs, and run-with-me pep talks that make hard miles feel less solitary.
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Run, Selfie, Repeat is a running show built from the inside of the training block. It does not smooth out the work. Kelly Roberts brings listeners into BQ or Bust weeks, treadmill runs, hot miles, race-week nerves, and the strange little decisions that shape a runner's day. The pace can be breathless. Then it gets reflective. One moment is an 800-meter split, a stroller in the path, or a shoe complaint; the next is a reminder that a goal can matter deeply even when it looks small from the outside. That mix gives the show its pull. It is coaching, but not from a distance. Roberts talks like someone managing fatigue, heat, fueling, tight shoulders, blisters, calf trouble, Achilles worry, strength work, dry needling, and the stubborn hope that tomorrow's run might feel better. The BQ or Bust arc adds a serialized structure, tracking marathon training through strong workouts, injury scares, missed long runs, shoe retirements, and the frustration of having fitness and fragility show up at the same time. The show also makes room for guided runs and race-day efforts, including mile-focused sessions and treadmill training chats. Practical details matter here. So do feelings. Race anxiety, body stress, money stress, family stress, and social stress are treated as part of the runner's weather, not as side issues to be ignored. The tone is blunt, comic, and often self-deprecating, but the underlying message is steady: everyday runners deserve serious support. Roberts also connects the show to the Badass Lady Gang, a women's running community with in-person chapters, training plans, coaching, and online support. That community lens keeps the podcast from becoming a solitary performance of grit. It feels more like a training partner who knows when to push, when to laugh, and when to call a hard day hard. Run, Selfie, Repeat fits runners who want permission to be scared, annoyed, ambitious, tired, and still in motion. It is not pristine inspiration. It is running motivation with split times, sore calves, music, and real disappointment still audible in the room.
Made for: For everyday runners training toward races, comebacks, first starts, or ambitious goals while juggling heat, nerves, injury scares, and life stress. It especially fits listeners who like coaching that sounds candid, funny, and emotionally direct.
What sets it apart: The show turns active training footage and run-with-me sessions into narrative coaching, so listeners hear decisions, doubts, and adjustments as they happen. Its strength is the blend of practical running detail with unpolished emotional honesty.
Short, weekly pep talks that'll motivate you to take that first step, set a goal that scares the crap out of you, or laugh your way through the struggle. It's the Run, Selfie, Repeat podcast, where we talk about life with a side of running. So join me as we get real, get ugly, kick ass and take names.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Kelly Roberts makes marathon preparation useful and human by recording the workouts, injuries, adjustments and disappointment as they happen.
Kelly Roberts turns marathon training into a candid record of what happens between the plan and the finish line. The BQ or Bust installments follow workouts in progress, then account for the less orderly parts: oppressive heat, missed mileage, shoe testing, fueling decisions and…
A missed long run gets you honesty, dry needling, and Disney music instead of victory-lap varnish.
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Kelly works through a hard session and the hurt of a changed running goal.
Kelly talks her way through 800s and 400s on a cold morning, calling out her splits and walking between reps. A biker gets in her way. A stroller makes her turn around. Her shorts keep riding up. By the final rep, she puts on Disney music.
Heat and a pier closure complicate marathon training, while the host reports some relief in her calf and Achilles.
The host's speed workout becomes a hard day of marathon training. Heat makes the cool down a struggle, and a pier closure throws off the distance. She ends up riding a city bike home. The next day, she runs an hour of recovery, longer than the planned 45 to 55 minutes.
A marathon training week shaped by a pain-free 10K, an aching Achilles and reluctant strength work.
By week seven of marathon training, the host is tired of an Achilles that keeps asking for attention. She adds soleus, Achilles and calf exercises to her warmup and gets through a 10K without pain. At the top of a slope, though, she stops: the downhill might be hard on it.
A calf scare interrupts Kelly Roberts's marathon training, and she lets the uncertainty show.
Kelly Roberts's sixth week of Chicago Marathon training begins with speed play and a little over seven and a half miles. Then her calf tightens during a run, leaving her to walk about a mile home.
A sweaty July check-in leads to a marathon ride challenge and a candid limit on doing more.
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Kelly Roberts’s week 7 Chicago Marathon training centers on a sore soleus/Achilles, new shoe testing, and a detailed fueling spreadsheet.
Kelly Roberts recaps week six of Chicago Marathon training after a five-mile Team Champs race, hot workouts, and increasing fatigue.
Kelly Roberts records a humid July run in New York City and keeps returning to how her body feels "creaky" and "sore" after a five-miler in Central Park.
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