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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: Who’s Really In Control? · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Hello, Hello Emily here, welcome back to another episode of
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  Speaker 1: Five Minute Friday from Hurdle. I am coming to you
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  Speaker 1: with some serious post Boston energy and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on what it actually means to be in tune
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  Speaker 1: with yourself. I'm feeling so inspired and motivated after seeing
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  Speaker 1: so many outstanding humans chase their own potential on Monday's
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  Speaker 1: marathon day. And there's one story in particular that I
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  Speaker 1: want to talk about in this episode of five Minute Friday,
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  Speaker 1: and that has to do with Sharon Loketti. So Sharon
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  Speaker 1: is on the bus to Hoppington, she is headed to
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  Speaker 1: the start of the marathon, and she's a twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five reigning champion of this marathon, and she realizes this
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  Speaker 1: is true, that she doesn't have her watch. I do
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  Speaker 1: not even the amount of pros I talked to in
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  Speaker 1: the days leading up to the marathon that told me
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  Speaker 1: about their checklists and their to do lists. The panic
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  Speaker 1: that must have ensued for Sharon during.
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  Speaker 2: This moment I cannot even fathom.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, she's a favorite, the states are high, she's
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  Speaker 1: hunting a back to back when she's missing something that's
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  Speaker 1: like a major tool to come up on top of
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  Speaker 1: the podium. Anyway, Sharon borrows a watch from someone she
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  Speaker 1: finds at the start, and that is that is so
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  Speaker 1: insane to me, especially because what actually happened here is
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  Speaker 1: that she made a decision before she even got this
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  Speaker 1: substitute watch. She made the decision that she wasn't going
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  Speaker 1: to let the things that she could no longer control
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  Speaker 1: break her.
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  Speaker 2: And that is such a lesson.
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  Speaker 1: Sharon had no other option except to trust her training,
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  Speaker 1: trust her internal dashboard, and she told reporters that she
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  Speaker 1: was fully prepared to just go into this race based
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  Speaker 1: on feel. We even heard that the data that was
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  Speaker 1: on the watch that she ended up borrowing was like
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  Speaker 1: very different than what she typically looks down and sees
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  Speaker 1: on hers So she was essentially, as we often call it,
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  Speaker 1: running naked. So I'm telling you the story because it
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  Speaker 1: brings me to the concept of internal versus external, and
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  Speaker 1: we live in an era where all of us, myself
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  Speaker 1: for sure, we are often obsessed with the external. I
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  Speaker 1: want the GPS on my watch to tell me that
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  Speaker 1: I am moving fast. I want my bank account to
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  Speaker 1: tell me that I am air quotes successful.
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  Speaker 2: I want likes on Instagram. You get the point.
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  Speaker 1: But spoiler alert, Sharon won the Boston Marathon, and that's
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  Speaker 1: because she let go of worrying about the external. She
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  Speaker 1: was willing to go within and ask herself, how does
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  Speaker 1: this feel now? What do I need? And how can
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  Speaker 1: I do the best I can with what I have?
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  Speaker 2: Period?
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  Speaker 1: So that brings me to this week's listener encouragement. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not even going to call it a prompt. My encouragement
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  Speaker 1: for you is ask yourself, are you seeking external validation
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  Speaker 1: way too much? Is there more that you can base
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  Speaker 1: your happiness, your benchmarks of success on That has nothing
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  Speaker 1: to do with specific numbers or metrics. Where are you
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  Speaker 1: being rigid within your day? And I'm not just talking
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  Speaker 1: about running or working out right. If you're sitting at
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  Speaker 1: your desk and you're asking yourself, am I being productive
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  Speaker 1: enough within this period of time? Well? How are you
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  Speaker 1: defying that? And is that by your standards? Are someone else's?
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  Speaker 1: It's worth neddling over. And I do think that there
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  Speaker 1: is a little bit of comfort that we can all
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  Speaker 1: find that the best to do it. And in this case,
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about Sharon, she too makes mistakes from time
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  Speaker 1: to time, So have a little grace with yourself and
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  Speaker 1: know that a small mistake doesn't mean that you need
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  Speaker 1: to throw out all of your hard work. And now
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  Speaker 1: a listener question, Hi Emily, as a runner about ready
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  Speaker 1: to embark upon my first High Rocks, a post epic
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  Speaker 1: breakup inspired adventure.
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  Speaker 2: I'm struggling with a shoe.
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  Speaker 1: I love my ACEIX, have used ultras for my lifting shoes,
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  Speaker 1: use met cons for boot camps, and have been warned
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  Speaker 1: enough that they are not grippy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm open to anything.
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  Speaker 1: I know High Rocks themselves have a shoe, but hoping
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  Speaker 1: to not spend over two hundred dollars on this.
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  Speaker 2: What are your thoughts?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, this is a good question, and I want to
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  Speaker 1: say that it's so important that you are cognizant that
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  Speaker 1: different sneakers are meant for different things, which means, as
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  Speaker 1: this listener pointed out, there are going to be shoes
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  Speaker 1: that are really great for boot camps, They're going to
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  Speaker 1: be shoes that are really great for strength training, they
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  Speaker 1: are going to be shoes that are great for running
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  Speaker 1: a five k, and also shoes that are going to
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  Speaker 1: be great for running a marathon. So how do you
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  Speaker 1: know what shoe to pick for what?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 1: You want to make sure that you're giving your foot
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  Speaker 1: what it needs in the circumstance that you are in. So,
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  Speaker 1: where as something like string training requires a flat base
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  Speaker 1: and a shoe that can support a lateral movement like
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  Speaker 1: a lunge, when you're running and have a lot more
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  Speaker 1: time on feet, you want to make sure that your
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  Speaker 1: foot has cushion underneath that can support the continuous pounding
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  Speaker 1: of the pavement or the trails or the train.
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  Speaker 2: You get what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: High rocks is an interesting thing because it involves a
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  Speaker 1: lot of different components the global indoor fitness racing competition,
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  Speaker 1: and it combines running with functional workout stations like wallballs,
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  Speaker 1: ski erg sled, push sled, pole murpy, broad jumps. What
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  Speaker 1: else am I forgetting sandbag lunges, farmers carries wall balls?
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  Speaker 1: I think I might have said that already there's rowing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of different aspects to a high rocks
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  Speaker 1: and also, as I said, running, so you want to
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  Speaker 1: show that's multi purpose and.
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  Speaker 2: More and more.
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  Speaker 1: There are brands that are getting specifically into this game.
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  Speaker 1: I know that Adidas recently released their Audi zero Drop
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  Speaker 1: set Elite.
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  Speaker 2: I have it sitting in my living room. I have
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  Speaker 2: yet to try it.
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  Speaker 1: Puma also has put a lot of marketing dollars behind
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  Speaker 1: their high Rocks options, including the High Rocks Deviate and
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  Speaker 1: the High Rocks Velocity. But the most important thing is
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  Speaker 1: that you're wearing a sneaker that does have some cushion underfoot,
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  Speaker 1: but not something that has so much cushion that you're
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  Speaker 1: feeling super wobbly, because you're going to need a firm
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  Speaker 1: base to do a lot of these targeted strength movements. Personally,
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  Speaker 1: for something like this, I'd probably lean into a Nike
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  Speaker 1: Pegasus or the Puma Devi eight. I've run in both
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  Speaker 1: and really enjoy them and feel like they are sturdy
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  Speaker 1: enough for the other demands of a high rocks event,
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  Speaker 1: but I will caveat that I've never participated in one myself.
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  Speaker 1: I'm only thinking of this as if I was going
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  Speaker 1: to go do a workout with all the things I
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  Speaker 1: just listed what I'd be looking for from an underfoot
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  Speaker 1: feel now. Of note, there is a considerable amount of
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  Speaker 1: running in a high rock, so again, while you do
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  Speaker 1: want to feel secure and sturdy doing those alternative movements,
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  Speaker 1: when you're logging a total of eight kilometers of movement,
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  Speaker 1: that is a lot of running, so just.
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  Speaker 2: Keep it in mind.
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  Speaker 1: Make sure you're giving your foot the support that it needs,
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  Speaker 1: the cushion that it needs, and most of all, have fun.
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  Speaker 2: What a fun adventure to be going on.
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  Speaker 1: Make sure you're following along with Hurdle over on social
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  Speaker 1: Body and send me your listener questions. You can always
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  Speaker 1: hurdle conquered. Catch you guys next time.