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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: Are You The Only Thing Holding Yourself Back? · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Hey, Hurdler's Emily a body here with five Minute Friday
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  Speaker 1: from Hurdle. I have an exciting announcement this Friday. What
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  Speaker 1: day are we on here? May fifteenth is the first
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  Speaker 1: installment of the five Minute Friday newsletter that goes with
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  Speaker 1: this episode. So I have a new newsletter. It's called
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  Speaker 1: the Weekly Hurdle. It's going to come out on Fridays.
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  Speaker 1: And with the newsletter, the idea is that it will
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  Speaker 1: follow the same format as Five Minute Friday. So you
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  Speaker 1: can read the newsletter or you can listen to the
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  Speaker 1: podcast and either way, just looking for a different way
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  Speaker 1: to connect with all of you. Of course, you'll also
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  Speaker 1: Of course, I'm still figuring this all out. I'm brand
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  Speaker 1: do so over there, or click on over to the
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  Speaker 1: to subscribe to Hurdle Weekly. So for this week's five
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  Speaker 1: minute Friday story, I did a lot of reflecting this
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  Speaker 1: week and really this month, because at the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: the month, or right before the beginning of the month,
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  Speaker 1: I would say I was mad, okay, well maybe mad
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  Speaker 1: as a stretch. I was frustrated. For the past few years.
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  Speaker 1: Every single Thursday morning, I would wake up at five
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  Speaker 1: forty five am. I'd linger around in bed until five
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  Speaker 1: fifty two ish, then get up, pack my bag and
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  Speaker 1: make my way down the four flights of stairs, out
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  Speaker 1: the door, and down three different escalators toward the New
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  Speaker 1: York City Subway at eighty sixth Street on their ber
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  Speaker 1: East Side. And now i'd emerge from the que train
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  Speaker 1: at Harold Square. I'd be finishing up my coffee in
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  Speaker 1: an episode of The Daily before walking into Nike's New
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  Speaker 1: York headquarters. There at promptly seven am, I would join
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  Speaker 1: a handful of journalists for what we came to call
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  Speaker 1: Media Miles. And this was a weekly run that was
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  Speaker 1: fun because camaraderie and challenging because we had great access
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  Speaker 1: to Nike's top coaches on the regular. Now we have
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  Speaker 1: run in everything. We've run in the rain and the snow,
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  Speaker 1: and the wind and the sun, and we've run in
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  Speaker 1: good times and bad times and during layoff times. Because publishing,
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  Speaker 1: we've celebrated personal bests, and so many of the Media
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  Speaker 1: Miles Squad runners they've crossed off marathons from their bucket lists,
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  Speaker 1: largely due in part to the motivation that they have
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  Speaker 1: garnered from this weekly meetup. It's inspiring, really, But when
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  Speaker 1: coronavirus took hold over life as we know it in
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  Speaker 1: quarantine began and many of us started to order way
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  Speaker 1: too many pairs of sweatpants online, this gathering was honestly
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  Speaker 1: one of the first things to be put on hold,
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  Speaker 1: and it was also one of the things that I
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  Speaker 1: missed the most from my regular routine. Now, don't get
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  Speaker 1: me wrong, there are other weekly constants, like heading into
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  Speaker 1: my twenty fifth Street we work office and seeing my
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  Speaker 1: favorite community leaders, or sitting at the dimly lit bar
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  Speaker 1: at Bar Preami with a glass of Barillo and hand
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  Speaker 1: debating between the Bucatini or the Natella Sunday. I missed
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  Speaker 1: those two, but in New York City. Your friends become
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  Speaker 1: your family, one big, diverse, all over the place family.
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  Speaker 1: And while I am so lucky to have made friends
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  Speaker 1: in my time here, I've just never had one big
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  Speaker 1: group of friends that did everything together. No Charlotte, Samantha Carrey,
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  Speaker 1: Miranda situation where we meet up at the diner every
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  Speaker 1: other Tuesday to talk about everything from the fling of
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  Speaker 1: the week to work woes. But the media miles in
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  Speaker 1: a weird way. This group of humans, it kind of
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  Speaker 1: felt a little bit like that, and the good and
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  Speaker 1: the bad times. I kept showing up and my family
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  Speaker 1: and I just put air quotes around that talking to
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  Speaker 1: this microphone. They would be there waiting, without a doubt,
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  Speaker 1: the family. They wanted you to be your best, whether
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  Speaker 1: it was on a run or elsewhere. And to me,
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  Speaker 1: I just I think that's pretty special. Anyway, back to
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  Speaker 1: the whole frustrated part, So the feelings of aggression, they
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  Speaker 1: really didn't come from this year fact that we could
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  Speaker 1: no longer meet up. As May one approached, we were
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  Speaker 1: offered the opportunity to participate in a virtual running challenge
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  Speaker 1: in the Nike Run Club app, and it would be
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  Speaker 1: to log fifty miles in May. Now, if you've never
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  Speaker 1: used the Nike Run Club app, it's really cool. You
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  Speaker 1: can go in there and create your own challenge, challenge
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  Speaker 1: whoever you want, set it for as long as you
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  Speaker 1: want to go, as far as you want, and all
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  Speaker 1: of the parameters. It's all up to you. So leading
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  Speaker 1: up to this challenge, according to my garment, I was
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  Speaker 1: running between thirty and forty miles a week in February
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  Speaker 1: and March, a little less between, like twenty and thirty.
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  Speaker 1: Come April, I ran twenty six miles total. I was sidelined,
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  Speaker 1: as I've talked about here before, with some discomfort in
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  Speaker 1: my left glute, my left performance, and I struggled so
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  Speaker 1: much with wanting to indulge in the thing that feeds
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  Speaker 1: my soul versus taking a step back for the betterment
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  Speaker 1: of my body. I was on my fourth week of
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  Speaker 1: no running when the challenge came through my inbox, and
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  Speaker 1: so yeah, I was frustrated. How would I do this
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  Speaker 1: with how things are now? I asked myself, Am I
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  Speaker 1: capable of this? I can't even run. We won't be together,
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  Speaker 1: it's not the same. I had so many complaints complaining
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  Speaker 1: stage one and I did a lot of it to myself.
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  Speaker 1: I wrote a slew of expletive filled rants in my journals.
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  Speaker 1: I vented on the lightly lined pages about the things
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  Speaker 1: that weren't. But by the time May one rolled around,
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  Speaker 1: I had to make a commitment to myself. I would
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  Speaker 1: stop complaining about the thing I couldn't change and recognize
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  Speaker 1: the facts. So these were the facts I wanted to participate.
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  Speaker 1: I shouldn't be running a ton, so I decided to
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  Speaker 1: start walking. Even if every single one of those fifty
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  Speaker 1: May miles were at a seventeen minute mile coffee sipping pace,
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  Speaker 1: I would get them done. I knew it. I would
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  Speaker 1: be included and I would feel like I was back
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  Speaker 1: with my family again. The scenario was a little bit
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  Speaker 1: different than before. Granted, no alarm or eerily quiet subway
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  Speaker 1: ride necessary. I'd open my eyes naturally when the sun
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  Speaker 1: and the sounds of the birds chirping perched on my
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  Speaker 1: fire escape permeated through the windowpane. Around six eighteen am,
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  Speaker 1: to be specific, I'd put up a kettle, do a
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  Speaker 1: series of stretches, and change into a sports bra and
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  Speaker 1: leggings and get going with a tumbler of coffee in
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  Speaker 1: my right hand. I'd walk down the four flights of
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  Speaker 1: stairs and get on my way, not just on Thursdays,
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  Speaker 1: though every day. With time, I became less mad about
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  Speaker 1: the difference between my new routine and my old routine,
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  Speaker 1: and in fact I even came to enjoy the regularity.
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  Speaker 1: The familiar scent of fresh tool of signaling springs descent
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  Speaker 1: on New York, something that doesn't wane if you're not
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  Speaker 1: moving at a sub nine minute mile pace. The sweet
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  Speaker 1: sip of my home brew, which always spills a little
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  Speaker 1: bit regardless of just how careful I am. The familiar
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  Speaker 1: faces of Dorman waiting for someone, anyone to greet as
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  Speaker 1: foot traffic is at an all time lull, and with
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  Speaker 1: time I'm the miles they started to rack up, and
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  Speaker 1: once I crossed the thirty mile threshold, I got the
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  Speaker 1: clear from my physical therapist to do a run walk
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  Speaker 1: in oh Man. Was I excited, And on the final
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  Speaker 1: day which would bring me over the fifty mile mark,
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  Speaker 1: I finished off the effort with a five minute stretch
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  Speaker 1: of running, pushing the pace. As I saw my watch
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  Speaker 1: tick past my daily five k goal. I started hesitant,
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  Speaker 1: I started with excuses. I finished optimistic. I finished period.
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  Speaker 1: Things just don't always go as we'd hope, But when
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  Speaker 1: you're willing to accept them as they are, move forward
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  Speaker 1: with what you have and do what you can, there
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  Speaker 1: are always going to be lessons to learn and something
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  Speaker 1: to gain. As I walked back up the four floorist
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  Speaker 1: my apartment with an iced coffee reward in hand, I
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  Speaker 1: felt grateful at a hole for the slow miles and
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  Speaker 1: the fast miles, my New York City family and the
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to keep pushing through. So this week's prompt, what's
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  Speaker 1: something you've been dreading that you can do this week
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  Speaker 1: and take hold of the opportunity to learn from Again?
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  Speaker 1: What is something that you've been dreading that you can
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  Speaker 1: do this week and take hold of the opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: learn from all Right, so content picks. I took a
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  Speaker 1: virtual cooking class with the New York City Wine and
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  Speaker 1: big Italian family, and I said to my father before
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  Speaker 1: we took this class, I feel like I have never
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  Speaker 1: made really great meatballs, and now I can confidently say
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  Speaker 1: down with him for an Instagram live earlier this week,
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  Speaker 1: and his voice is just so relaxing that I will
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  Speaker 1: guys with an excerpt for my book pick of the week.
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  Speaker 1: It is Let Your Mind Run, a memoir of thinking
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  Speaker 1: my way to Victory. It's by Dina Cast, another past hurdler. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: so much good hurdle vibes in the mix. I am
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  Speaker 1: reading it right now. I'm in the home stretch and
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  Speaker 1: I cheated myself a little bit because the quote I
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  Speaker 1: am pulling is from the very end, and this is
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  Speaker 1: what I will leave you with. Dina writes on some days,
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  Speaker 1: the positive path is harder to find and we have
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  Speaker 1: to be relentless in its pursuit. But a better outlook
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