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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: Well, This Was Unexpected · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Hey, hurdlers, it's Emily popping in with five minute Friday.
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  Speaker 1: I've thought about renaming this episode because it's never actually
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  Speaker 1: only five minutes, but I mean, it rolls off the tongue.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't seem to be a sticking point for any
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  Speaker 1: of you, so I think we just roll with it. Also,
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  Speaker 1: I just need to say this. There's like a cute
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  Speaker 1: older gentleman that lives like on the same floor as
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  Speaker 1: me across the street, and usually on Thursdays, definitely on Fridays,
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  Speaker 1: at four o'clock, he starts jamming out to music on
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  Speaker 1: his balcony like loud enough for literally the entire blo
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  Speaker 1: to hear it. And I don't want to be the
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  Speaker 1: cynical person that says this can be a little bit distracting.
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  Speaker 1: I still have some stuff to get done. But I
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  Speaker 1: am definitely that person right now. Am I horrible?
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  Speaker 2: Anyway? This week, I'm talking to you about a thought
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  Speaker 2: I had this morning.
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  Speaker 1: I was digging through my laundry, as one does when
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  Speaker 1: they're trying to find a certain pair of shorts that
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  Speaker 1: they swore were in their dresser and they're not there.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't digging through the laundry because I was going
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  Speaker 1: to wear the shorts if they were in the laundry.
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  Speaker 1: But part of me kind of thought that I may
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  Speaker 1: have dropped said shorts when I was doing my actual
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  Speaker 1: laundry the other day, so the anxious person inside of
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  Speaker 1: me wanted to find the shorts. Anyway, I'm digging through
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  Speaker 1: the laundry it's like six am, and I can't find them,
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  Speaker 1: and so I decide that I'm going to wear my
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  Speaker 1: second favorite pair of shorts, and I put them on,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like hustling and bustling around my apartment trying
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  Speaker 1: to get myself together before I want to be out
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  Speaker 1: of the apartment within like the next ten minutes. And
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  Speaker 1: as I take a quick second to pause and drink
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  Speaker 1: my small espresso cup, I have this moment where I
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  Speaker 1: realized that it is almost the end of October and
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  Speaker 1: I am still wearing shorts, and not just that I'm
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  Speaker 1: like wearing shorts that like I'm preferred to wear shorts,
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  Speaker 1: And my thoughts kept going, as I will explain to
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  Speaker 1: you that I started to wonder, like, when did you
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  Speaker 1: become this person that wanted to wear shorts all the time?
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  Speaker 2: Like that has never been me. I have never.
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  Speaker 1: Until you know twenty twenty the kind of person that
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  Speaker 1: felt comfortable wearing shorts often. I certainly wasn't reaching for
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  Speaker 1: them in October. Nevertheless, I was still not really reaching
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  Speaker 1: for them all that often in the summer months. And
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  Speaker 1: when I reflect on this, I start to wonder or
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  Speaker 1: ask myself, like, what has changed? And I've come to
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  Speaker 1: realize that two things have really changed, if I'm being honest.
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  Speaker 1: The first is that although I had found shorts in
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  Speaker 1: years past that I liked, I feel like I finally
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  Speaker 1: hit the nail on the head when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: the few Goldilocks options that I have in my rotation,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll put links to all of those in the
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  Speaker 1: show notes. Which is funny because I thought that I
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  Speaker 1: had some good shorts before and I would wear them
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  Speaker 1: and pair it with like bodyguide or Megababe thigh chafe
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  Speaker 1: or whatever. But still, like, I never felt one hundred
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  Speaker 1: percent comfortable, always worrying that I was going to get
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  Speaker 1: like ridiculously uncomfortable chafing. And if I could prevent this
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  Speaker 1: from happening, then why wouldn't I want to do that
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  Speaker 1: by wearing Capriz. Well, spoiler alert, wearing Capriz can be
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  Speaker 1: pretty uncomfortable, especially if it is hot outside. And I
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  Speaker 1: have always felt this way, whether I Emily circa two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and seven that was tipping the scalet over two
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  Speaker 1: hundred pounds or the Emily now, I just have always
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  Speaker 1: had what I love to refer to as these thunder
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  Speaker 1: thighs that just didn't ever really make me feel super
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  Speaker 1: comfortable when it came to working out.
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  Speaker 2: I digress.
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  Speaker 1: I think the biggest difference now though, and why I
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  Speaker 1: am wearing shorts, and something that I'm thinking many of
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  Speaker 1: you will be able to relate to, is that I
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  Speaker 1: just got to a point where I wanted to feel
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  Speaker 1: comfortable and I stopped worrying so much about what someone
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  Speaker 1: else might think about me wearing shorts. And in this realization,
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  Speaker 1: I also kind of came to terms with this idea
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  Speaker 1: that maybe this was all in my head, that maybe
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  Speaker 1: no one else actually had a thought or an opinion
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  Speaker 1: of me wearing shorts at all, and the story that
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  Speaker 1: I was telling myself was really just based in the
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  Speaker 1: old Emily, in the Emily that wasn't comfortable in her body.
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  Speaker 1: Not to say that I still don't have days where
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  Speaker 1: I struggle with my personal body acceptance but now I
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  Speaker 1: know how good it feels to feel comfortable on my
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  Speaker 1: run because I am cool. I know how great it
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  Speaker 1: is to feel confident when I'm running down the street,
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  Speaker 1: thinking about my pace and how great that is, and
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  Speaker 1: not worrying about what people might think about the way
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  Speaker 1: that I look. And so I just had this little realization,
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  Speaker 1: you know, this morning, thinking to myself how great it
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  Speaker 1: is and how far I've come, and how I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: that this is certainly something that many of you can
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  Speaker 1: relate to, regardless of your size or your body shape,
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  Speaker 1: that we all at times struggle to feel confident and
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  Speaker 1: comfortable in our own skin. And you know, lately I'm
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  Speaker 1: feeling really positive about it. My prompt for you this week.
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  Speaker 1: So the story I was telling myself, as I just referenced,
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  Speaker 1: was that other people must have felt some kind of
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  Speaker 1: way about me wearing shorts, And really, I believe that
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  Speaker 1: that is just a story. So what story have you
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  Speaker 1: been telling yourself that might not be all that true?
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  Speaker 2: Again?
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  Speaker 1: What story have you been telling yourself that might not
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  Speaker 1: be all that true? Highlights of the week. All the
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  Speaker 1: links of this stuff will be in the show notes.
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  Speaker 1: First up, read how to wash sneakers in the washing
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  Speaker 1: machine and by hand. I get so many DMS about this,
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  Speaker 1: especially I need to note this. When I wear white
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  Speaker 1: sneakers and lace them up on social media, nine times
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  Speaker 1: out of ten in real life, those white sneakers do
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  Speaker 1: not look as white as they just magically appear to
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  Speaker 1: be on social I digress. Still, it is something that
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  Speaker 1: I do. I do clean my sneakers from time to time.
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  Speaker 1: And Woman's Health has this awesome article that gives you
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  Speaker 1: all the tips you need to wash yours on your
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  Speaker 1: own hot tip quick takeaway, never ever, ever, ever put.
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  Speaker 2: Them in the dryer.
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  Speaker 1: Another read for you an article about a man that
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  Speaker 1: is ordering ice cream. I kid you, not at every
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  Speaker 1: US McDonald's to see which machines are broken. This makes
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  Speaker 1: me laugh. This makes me laugh so much because when
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  Speaker 1: I was going through like the summer where I was
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  Speaker 1: learning to love running and I was working really hard
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  Speaker 1: to eat better, the McDonald's dollar cone, which is actually
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  Speaker 1: like no longer a dollar at any McDonald's you go to,
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  Speaker 1: but the dollar cone was my favorite snack. I loved it.
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  Speaker 1: I still love it. I know that it's not the
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  Speaker 1: best thing for me, but it is delicious and refreshing,
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  Speaker 1: and so it cracks me up because this man totally
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  Speaker 1: is onto something and that these machines are often broken
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  Speaker 1: and the public deserves to know where they can get
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  Speaker 1: their cones from. Listen Get Shit Done. Seven habits to
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  Speaker 1: lot on the show lately, and here in the newsletter
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  Speaker 1: is feeling stuck, feeling unproductive, feeling like you could be
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  Speaker 1: doing better. And I thought this twenty minute listen from
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  Speaker 1: right now, and last, but not least, this week, I
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  Speaker 1: would love, love, love so much if you would consider
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  Speaker 1: twenty six point two next Saturday, October thirty. First, I
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  Speaker 1: can't believe, as someone who swore that she would never
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  Speaker 1: do a virtual race, that a virtual marathon is in
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  Speaker 1: my immediate future.
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  Speaker 2: But here we are. I feel like many of you
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  Speaker 2: aren't actually surprised at all.
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  Speaker 1: I am raising money for an organization back on my feet.
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  Speaker 1: They are trying to combat homelessness through the power of
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  Speaker 1: running and community building. It's an organization that I volunteered
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  Speaker 1: with here in New York City before, and it would
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  Speaker 1: regular marathons have their fair share of challenges, and that
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  Speaker 1: virtual marathons certainly have them as well.
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  Speaker 2: So when my motivation might be waning just a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Come next Saturday, I will think about all of you
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  Speaker 1: and your support and it'll keep me going. So thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much for even considering it, and I also
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  Speaker 1: will be more than happy to accept all of your
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