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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: Reminder — You Choose How You React to the Little Voice In Your Head · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Hey, hurdlers, you're listening to another installment of Five Minute
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  Speaker 1: Friday from Hurdle.
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  Speaker 2: What a week? Can I tell you?
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  Speaker 1: Everything changes, like all of my feelings change when it's
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  Speaker 1: not oppressively humid outside. This morning on my run, which
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  Speaker 1: I was super super tired to do, but did it anyway,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll talk about that today, it felt like a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of spring and I'll take it. I'll take
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  Speaker 1: any little bit of day that happens where I don't
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  Speaker 1: feel like I'm literally just like swimming through soup.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway. For five Minute Friday to day, if you're new.
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  Speaker 1: To the sea, let me introduce it a little story
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  Speaker 1: to finish off your week, a little takeaway that I
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  Speaker 1: in your inbox every Friday, I digress this week for
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  Speaker 1: five Minute Friday. I feel as though this week the
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  Speaker 1: little voice in my head has been like wild in
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  Speaker 1: that I have been having so many thoughts of both
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  Speaker 1: you can totally do this, You've got this, You're awesome,
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  Speaker 1: and also like, oh my god, I cannot do this.
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  Speaker 2: What are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you should stop, maybe you should start over, maybe
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  Speaker 1: you should just walk away.
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  Speaker 2: Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
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  Speaker 1: Now I know that we all deal with this conflictingness often.
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  Speaker 2: I'm really great with words today, if you can't tell.
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  Speaker 1: But a really big example of this for me was
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  Speaker 1: during my workout on Tuesday. I shared about this on
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  Speaker 1: Instagram earlier this week, but it took me a really
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  Speaker 1: long time to join get involved with the running community
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  Speaker 1: here in New York because I was just scared about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in my head, not being good enough, right,
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  Speaker 1: like not being enough of a quote unquote runner to
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  Speaker 1: run with other people and being slow and that none
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  Speaker 1: of these other people would have bad days, and just
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  Speaker 1: so many things that I was building up in my
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  Speaker 1: mind that were stories I was telling myself that were
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  Speaker 1: totally not true.
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  Speaker 2: I realize now in retrospect that if.
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  Speaker 1: You run your runner, and that in any community wherever
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  Speaker 1: you are, there is certainly room for you to join
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  Speaker 1: in that the running community, regardless again of you're at,
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  Speaker 1: is going to accept you. And yes, like of course
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  Speaker 1: we're there to push each other, but it's bigger than that.
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  Speaker 1: It's if you have one of those days where you
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  Speaker 1: feel like your only speed is crawl, then I promise
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  Speaker 1: you someone in your community that cares about you, because
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  Speaker 1: there will be people that care about you, is going
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  Speaker 1: to crawl with you. That is what the community is about. Anyway, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday workout. I am at Brooklyn Track Club. It's the
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  Speaker 1: track club that I were run with here in New York.
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  Speaker 1: And the workout was fourteen by four hundred meters. So
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  Speaker 1: what that means is you run one lap around the
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  Speaker 1: track that's four hundred meters at whatever the pace is
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  Speaker 1: for the workout. So the workout this week was starting
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  Speaker 1: at I believe ten k pace, so the pace that
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  Speaker 1: you would ideally run a ten k at and working
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  Speaker 1: down to five k or mile pace. So you run
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  Speaker 1: one four hundred meters lap and then you rest for
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  Speaker 1: the designated amount of rest time. The rest time I
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  Speaker 1: believe was sixty seconds so fourteen times you run four
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  Speaker 1: hundred meters, you rest sixty seconds.
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  Speaker 2: Cool, We're on the same page.
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  Speaker 1: I felt like a lot of people at the track
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  Speaker 1: were starting this workout and we were all thinking that
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  Speaker 1: we're going to run around the same pace. So one
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  Speaker 1: of the pace groups was as big as like twenty people,
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  Speaker 1: I want to say, and I was feeling a little
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  Speaker 1: overwhelmed in that, and so I decided to start going
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  Speaker 1: on my own scheduling. I was running my own four
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  Speaker 1: hundred meter repeats solo, and by like the fifth or
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  Speaker 1: the sixth repeat, I kind of figured out that the
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  Speaker 1: group that was a little bit ahead of me was
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  Speaker 1: actually running the same pace as me. And it was
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  Speaker 1: three guys in this group. Little intimidating as a woman
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  Speaker 1: to walk up to this group of three guys, but
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I'm going to go for it, and
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we're all friendly, so it's not like I
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  Speaker 1: was intimidated because there were three guys, but more so
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  Speaker 1: because they're like three guys running fast around the track.
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  Speaker 1: You get what I'm saying here. Anyway, I go up
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  Speaker 1: to the three guys. We do one rep, two rep,
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  Speaker 1: three reps. I'm feeling good as the worker goes on,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you're starting to get fatigued, and all of
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  Speaker 1: the little voice of my head starts like going off,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I can do this.
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  Speaker 2: You can do this. I don't know if I can
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  Speaker 2: do this.
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  Speaker 1: Shoot, maybe I should fall out, Maybe I should go
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  Speaker 1: back to doing this by myself.
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  Speaker 2: No, you can do this, keep going, You've got this,
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  Speaker 2: You've got this, et cetera, et cetera.
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  Speaker 1: By like the twelfth rep, I was like, shoot, like
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  Speaker 1: I really just don't know what's happening here, Like I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if I can do this. And I kept going,
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  Speaker 1: and I kind of like hushed that voice inside of
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  Speaker 1: my head and I chose to listen to the positives
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  Speaker 1: and yes, like I'm a realist, but it felt so
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  Speaker 1: good just to like believe that I was capable, And
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  Speaker 1: even when it just felt hard, it's all hell, I
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  Speaker 1: was like, you can do it, keep going, keep pushing,
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  Speaker 1: Like if the worst thing in the world, let's be honest,
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  Speaker 1: was that, like I did fall off of a rep
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  Speaker 1: so to speak.
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  Speaker 2: Then like I knew I was going to survive.
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  Speaker 1: And so by the time the last REP came around,
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  Speaker 1: which was my fastest rep of the day, I just
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  Speaker 1: felt like so proud of myself for sticking it out
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  Speaker 1: and for staying with them, and for not letting the
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  Speaker 1: little voice deter me from going after my own big potential.
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  Speaker 1: It's something that is an ever work in progress. It's
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  Speaker 1: something that I'm sure many of you can relate to.
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  Speaker 1: And so let this little story be a reminder to
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  Speaker 1: you this week that you can and that starts with
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  Speaker 1: believing the positive side about little voice. My prompt for
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  Speaker 1: you this week, we're talking about confidence here, so I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to go in that direction. Write down what the
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  Speaker 1: word confidence means to you and how can you improve yours? Again,
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  Speaker 1: what does the word confidence mean to you? And how
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  Speaker 1: can you improve yours? And now a listener question from Emma,
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  Speaker 3: Hi Emily, my name is Emma and I am a
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  Speaker 3: hurdle listener and lover based out of Connecticut. Thank you
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  Speaker 3: so much for continuing to serve us all of this
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  Speaker 3: amazing content and connect us with these voices. I guess
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  Speaker 3: kind of a gross question today, but something I hope
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  Speaker 3: I'm not alone in as all seasons outdoor runner who's
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  Speaker 3: trying to increase weekly mileage but dealing with some gnarly
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  Speaker 3: blisters other than switching up shoes, socks, and getting a
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  Speaker 3: professional shoe fitting, all of which I've done, do you
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  Speaker 3: or anyone you ever come in contact with, have any
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  Speaker 3: tips and tricks for preventing and dealing with blisters while
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  Speaker 3: also maintaining our hopefully even increasing weekly run mileage. Thanks
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  Speaker 3: so much in advance.
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  Speaker 1: This is a good one, and it sounds like you
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  Speaker 1: have done a lot of the things that I would
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  Speaker 1: throw back into the mix here. It's super important if
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  Speaker 1: you're getting blisters that you make sure that you get
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  Speaker 1: your feet looked at, because this could be an indication
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  Speaker 1: that maybe you're wearing the wrong sneaker for your gate type.
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  Speaker 1: I've talked about how to figure this out in episodes
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  Speaker 1: in the past, so I'm going to link to a
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  Speaker 1: past Hurdle Moment episode on how to choose the right
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  Speaker 1: sneakers for you in the show.
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  Speaker 2: Notes. Also really important that you mentioned here socks.
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  Speaker 1: Socks can play a huge role in what's going on
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  Speaker 1: with blisters on your feet. Remember, blisters happen because of friction,
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  Speaker 1: because of rubbing on the skin, which your sock is
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  Speaker 1: the closest thing next to your foot. So it's important
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  Speaker 1: that you keep those in mind when you're figuring out
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  Speaker 1: your Goldilocks foot situation. There are what I will also
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  Speaker 1: add into the mix here is that there are certain
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  Speaker 1: bombs or lotions of sorts that you can put on
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  Speaker 1: your feet to help with this. Body Glide makes a
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  Speaker 1: foot glide that I use regularly, and I cannot recommend
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  Speaker 1: it enough. Block and again, I would say a thousand times.
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  Speaker 1: I want to reinforce this. If this is happening to
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  Speaker 1: you regularly, definitely definitely head on ind to a run
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  Speaker 1: specialty shop and see how they can help you. It's
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  Speaker 1: always good to have someone give you another opinion.
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