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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: Progress Is Rarely Linear · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Hey hurdlers, Emily a body here bringing you another installment
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  Speaker 1: of five Minute Friday.
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  Speaker 2: I know we have some newer.
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  Speaker 1: Listeners in the feed thanks to some really awesome conversations
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  Speaker 1: that have been happening as a part of season five.
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  Speaker 1: So a little info about five Minute Friday. Five Minute Friday.
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  Speaker 2: The gist. I talk you.
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  Speaker 1: Through a little story, a personal narrative of sorts. I
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  Speaker 1: offer you a thought prompt to get you thinking going
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  Speaker 1: into the weekend or whenever you might be listening to this.
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  Speaker 1: Then I share some content pics, some highlights of the week,
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  Speaker 1: and I finish things off with a listener question. If
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  Speaker 1: you are interested in having your question featured in five
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  Speaker 1: Minute Friday. Fun fact, you can now leave me a voicemail,
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  Speaker 1: which is so fun over on Anchor that is my
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  Speaker 1: podcast hosting platform. I'm going to put the link to
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  Speaker 1: do that in the show notes. I would adore it.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing is off limits. Ask me whatever you want and
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  Speaker 1: click that link in the show notes because it is
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  Speaker 1: there waiting for you. This week for five Minute Friday,
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about the idea of
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  Speaker 1: progress and to illustrate where I'm going with this, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to bring into the Fold a conversation I had
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  Speaker 1: recently with past hurdle guest soon to be two time
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  Speaker 1: hurdle guest Colleen Quickly.
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  Speaker 2: You may know her.
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  Speaker 1: She is a runner, an Olympian, and a gem of
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  Speaker 1: a human being. We were chatting for an upcoming episode
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  Speaker 1: on the different types of running, or the different types
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  Speaker 1: of runs. About base pace. Now, base pace is your
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  Speaker 1: everyday run pace. It is a pace that you can
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  Speaker 1: hold pretty easily. If you were to think about it
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  Speaker 1: on a rate of perceived exertion scale, this would be
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  Speaker 1: at about a four or a five.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I explain what base pace is because I think about
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  Speaker 1: my base pace since I started running twelve or thirteen
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  Speaker 1: years ago. And when I first started running, I ran
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  Speaker 1: every day for an entire summer at summer camp. To
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  Speaker 1: hear more about that, I'll put a link to episode one,
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  Speaker 1: which gives you some details in the show notes. But
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  Speaker 1: I ran every day, and let me tell you, when
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  Speaker 1: I started running, my base pace I don't even remember
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  Speaker 1: what it was, and I didn't care to know what
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  Speaker 1: it was because all I cared to do was move
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  Speaker 1: my body regularly, and every day when I went out,
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  Speaker 1: it felt hard af it was it felt impossible. Now,
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  Speaker 1: over the years, my base pace, as I have run
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  Speaker 1: more and more and more and more miles has increased.
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  Speaker 1: So say back in the day when I was running
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  Speaker 1: a fourteen minute half mile. Now the other day yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: I went out and ran six miles and it felt
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  Speaker 1: easy to do it at a sub.
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  Speaker 2: Eight minute mile pace.
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy when I say that to this day, because
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  Speaker 1: I still think about the Emily of the days of
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  Speaker 1: old and how she could have never even fathomed or
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  Speaker 1: imagined that I would be able to do something like that.
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  Speaker 1: I digress. The reason I share this story, I'm giving
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the reason I sentenced this here today
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  Speaker 1: is because I want to talk about progress now. You know,
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  Speaker 1: over the last decade and change, my sole goal in
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  Speaker 1: life has not been to increase my base pace. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: that's not really something I even really thought about until
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  Speaker 1: more recent years. But increasing my base pace and the
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  Speaker 1: progress on that was something that took a lot of time,
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  Speaker 1: and it's something that has been just like one upward,
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  Speaker 1: easy trajectory. Just because I'm more capable of running faster
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  Speaker 1: miles now does not mean that there aren't days that
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  Speaker 1: I go out and feel like I am just totally
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  Speaker 1: sucking wind and that I have never run before, and
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  Speaker 1: like I'm a baby deer because those days happen. And
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  Speaker 1: I think oftentimes when we are on this journey and
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  Speaker 1: we hit these valleys or these lows, we get to
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  Speaker 1: a place where it can be really frustrating and get
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  Speaker 1: to a place where we feel paralyzed. But as Tunday
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  Speaker 1: said in our conversation on Monday, if you haven't listened
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  Speaker 1: to that episode of Hurdle, I highly highly recommend it.
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  Speaker 1: She said something that is very relevant to this, and
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  Speaker 1: that progress isn't always linear. In fact, it rarely is.
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  Speaker 1: And like I just said, there are going to be
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  Speaker 1: those valleys. There are also going to be peaks, and
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  Speaker 1: it is up to to each and every one of
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  Speaker 1: us to understand that. And once you get comfortable with
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  Speaker 1: that idea, once you recognize that there are going to
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  Speaker 1: be both, then you're better equipped to handle the highs,
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  Speaker 1: the lows, or whatever comes your way going forward, understanding
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  Speaker 1: that both happen to teach you something and that both
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  Speaker 1: will happen on your individual journey. I think recently, especially
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to running, I have certainly felt that
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  Speaker 1: I have been, you know, slower than regular and so
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  Speaker 1: when those speedy days like the day before, yesterday or
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  Speaker 1: yesterday come into the mix, it almost feels like a gift.
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  Speaker 1: And how great is that, right to like really appreciate
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  Speaker 1: what it is that my body is capable and appreciate
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  Speaker 1: the journey and appreciate the progress. I don't like to
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  Speaker 1: give spoiler alerts often, but it seems that in this
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  Speaker 1: episode of Five Minute Friday, I'm doing it a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Talking about an upcoming episode of Colleen Quickly. I also
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  Speaker 1: recorded just the other night with Emily Sky, known for
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  Speaker 1: her training programs as well, and Emily said something that
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  Speaker 1: I think really kind of caps off this sentiment, and
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  Speaker 1: that the best way to look back to reflect on
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  Speaker 1: the past is to.
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  Speaker 2: See how far you've come.
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  Speaker 1: So this rambling mess of a five Minute Friday is
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  Speaker 1: for me to reiterate to you that progress is always happening,
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  Speaker 1: and even sometimes if you feel like you're failing, at
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  Speaker 1: least you're failing forward. At least you are moving in
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  Speaker 1: that positive direction. My prompt for you this week, what
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  Speaker 1: is something you are doing in your life right now
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  Speaker 1: that is taking away from you making positive progress toward
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  Speaker 1: a goal? Again, what is something you are doing in
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  Speaker 1: your life right now that is taking away from you
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  Speaker 1: making positive progress toward a goal.
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  Speaker 2: An example of something.
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  Speaker 1: Like this is, like, maybe you could be a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more honest with yourself about the fact that you're
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  Speaker 1: scrolling for like thirty minutes in the morning instead of
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  Speaker 1: getting out of bed and getting moving.
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  Speaker 2: Just an example.
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  Speaker 1: Highlights of the week links to all of this goodness
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  Speaker 1: will be in the show notes. Listen How to be
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  Speaker 1: a Better Human How to find the emotional support you
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  Speaker 1: need right Now. I actually discovered this podcast as a
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  Speaker 1: repost from the TED Health podcast. Basically, the gist of
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  Speaker 1: How to Be a Better Human is that it brings
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  Speaker 1: in different TED speakers and they take it a step
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  Speaker 1: further than just like giving you a TED talk. Then
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  Speaker 1: the host kind of puts them on the spot to
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  Speaker 1: have them explain their big ideas and how we can
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  Speaker 1: put them in to practice. So, in this particular episode,
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  Speaker 1: a licensed psychologist his name is guy Wen. She talks
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  Speaker 1: about the importance of emotional hygiene, which I thought is
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  Speaker 1: just a very interesting phrase because we think, like it's
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  Speaker 1: a no brainer. You work out, you come in, you
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  Speaker 1: take a shower, you reset, But like when do we
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  Speaker 1: ever prioritize doing a similar thing when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: our emotions if we go through something that's a little
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  Speaker 1: bit traumatic. So definitely some food for thought. Help the
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  Speaker 1: people in Texas. Man, the things I'm seeing on social
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  Speaker 1: media about what these people are going through in Texas As,
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  Speaker 1: you probably know what unprecedented storms blanketed the state in
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  Speaker 1: freezing temperatures snow, and Texas isn't really equipped to handle
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  Speaker 1: stuff like this. So there are plenty of different organizations
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  Speaker 1: helping to provide food and shelter and warmth, including the
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  Speaker 1: American Red Cross, Salvation Army and the Houston Food Bank.
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  Speaker 1: So head on over to the show notes to figure
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  Speaker 1: out how you can do your part and get involved.
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  Speaker 1: Make time to take a sip a margarita. I let
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  Speaker 1: me be the first person to tell you National Margarite
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  Speaker 1: Today is coming. It's on Monday. I am obsessed with
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  Speaker 1: this blogger. Her name is Jessica Merchant. I think I've
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  Speaker 1: been following her since maybe two thousand and nine. She
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  Speaker 1: has a wildly popular blog called how Sweet Eats, and
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  Speaker 1: I Am including a ton of really great margarita recipes
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  Speaker 1: in the show Notes, including my personal favorite strawberry Mezcal Margarita.
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  Speaker 2: You are welcome. Watch Flight Attendant.
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  Speaker 1: I have been giving you guys some really great binge
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  Speaker 1: worthy listens lately in Five Minute Friday, and this is
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  Speaker 1: no exception. My girlfriend told me about this show. It
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  Speaker 1: made me a little jumpy. I'm not gonna lie. The
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  Speaker 1: premise of the whole thing is that a flight attendant
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  Speaker 1: wakes up in the wrong hotel next to a dead man.
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  Speaker 1: This flight attendant is played by Kaylee Quoco. Definitely again
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  Speaker 1: made me a little jumpy at times, but super solid.
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  Speaker 1: Watch now for our new segment on Five Minute Friday,
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  Speaker 1: the voicemail listener question. This week's question, here we go.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, Emily, this is jes Underscore The run Walker. I
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  Speaker 3: love your podcast so much and I want to know,
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  Speaker 3: once it is safe to run races again, what is
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  Speaker 3: the first race you are going to sign up for?
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  Speaker 1: Oh Man, So, as of now, depending on what goes
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  Speaker 1: on in the world, I am set to run the
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  Speaker 1: London Marathon, checking off another Abbot World Major in October,
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  Speaker 1: so that's the hope. Honestly, right now, I'm just really
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  Speaker 1: focused on getting stronger, dealing with some wonky knee tendonitis,
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  Speaker 1: and taking the days as they come. Before I let
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  Speaker 1: you go, I do want to make sure that I
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  Speaker 1: highlight that next week we are having our Bravy Book
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  Speaker 1: Club on Tuesday evening, February twenty third, at eight pm Eastern.
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  Speaker 1: If you can join and you've read the book, sign
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  Speaker 1: up lin to do so is in the show notes.
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  Speaker 2: That is all I have for you this week. Enjoy
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  Speaker 2: your weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Make sure you're following her at Hurdle Podcast and I'm
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  Speaker 1: over at Emily a Body Another Hurdle Conquered.
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  Speaker 2: Catch you guys next time