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GOING FOR IT: Becs Gentry On Working With NBC & Running A Once-In-A-Lifetime Marathon · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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Speaker 1: Marathon for two is the public event in between the
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Speaker 1: Men's Olympic Marathon and the Women's Olympic Marathon. It's one
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Speaker 1: of the first times ever the public have been invited
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Speaker 1: to be on the course, the same course in between
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Speaker 1: two events. I want to know why on earth people
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Speaker 1: are traveling from around the world to do this, Like,
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Speaker 1: what's there? Why for being there? Because I think there's
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Speaker 1: going to be some really incredible stories.
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Speaker 2: Hey everyone, Emily Abadi here. You are listening to another
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Speaker 2: installment of our limited series on Hurdle called Going for It.
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Speaker 2: It's a monumental time for women in sport, as more
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Speaker 2: and more eyes are rightfully paying attention to her in
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Speaker 2: pursuit of what lights her on fire. Leading up to Paris,
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Speaker 2: I'm ringing conversations to the forefront from women who will
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Speaker 2: be involved in this year's games, from athletes to journalists
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Speaker 2: and today's guest, perhaps your favorite Peloton instructor. I am
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Speaker 2: talking about the one and only Beck's gentry. You know
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Speaker 2: her from her teaching at Peloton and perhaps her new
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Speaker 2: gig as a podcaster for New York Roadrunners Set the
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Speaker 2: Pace podcast presented by Peloton. In today's episode, Bex talks
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Speaker 2: about what she's getting up to in Paris, her gig
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Speaker 2: with NBC, and how she feels to be towing the
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Speaker 2: line for marathon Poor two, which, for those of you
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Speaker 2: that don't know, an evening start on the exact same
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Speaker 2: route and on the same day as the men's Olympic event.
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Speaker 2: In just a few hours before the woman's event, Bex
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Speaker 2: will be running the Olympic marathon course.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 2: Because she is a dear friend of mine, we talk
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Speaker 2: about many other things as well, but I absolutely loved
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Speaker 2: having her back in the studio and I'm honored to
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Speaker 2: bring this conversation to the feed. Make sure you're follwing
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Speaker 2: along with us over on social It's at Hurdle podcast.
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Speaker 2: I am over at Emily you body and with that,
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Speaker 2: let's get to it. Let's get to hurdling.
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Speaker 3: Today.
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Speaker 2: I'm sitting down with Beck's gentry. You know her and
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Speaker 2: love her as a peloton instructor. She's also now a
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Speaker 2: podcaster set the Pace podcast.
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Speaker 3: How's that going for you?
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Speaker 1: Phenomenal?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Like you, my girl. You get to sit down and
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Speaker 1: talk with people who you adore, who inspire you on
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Speaker 1: a daily basis, who you are starstruck by, Like it's
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Speaker 1: never ending, and you get to learn and admire. It's great.
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Speaker 3: I love that.
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Speaker 2: I love to hear that you're loving that because it
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Speaker 2: is a new thing, and new things can be a
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Speaker 2: bit overwhelming as well.
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Speaker 1: It took some time, I think, to find my flow,
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Speaker 1: but I'm definitely in it now. Yeah, definitely. Like hold back, brob,
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Speaker 1: I got this.
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Speaker 3: She's coming for you. She's coming for you.
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Speaker 2: Do you feel like getting a quaint with podcasting was
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Speaker 2: easier or more difficult than getting comfortable being in front
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Speaker 2: of the camera at peloton?
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Speaker 1: Oh? Good question. Easier, I think, but because I didn't
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Speaker 1: have to look in ten different directions whilst running, right,
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Speaker 1: that's probably was always the hottest thing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's helpful that you don't have to run wall podcasting.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you wait, you wait, She's like, just.
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Speaker 2: You wait till they give me a microphone and you're
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Speaker 2: training with all of these people for the New York
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Speaker 2: City Marathon. Yeh, She's like, it's loading. This isn't foreshadowing
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Speaker 2: now we know. Well, I'm so excited about your new
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Speaker 2: venture and always I love being able to sit down
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Speaker 2: with you because you're in my bud and we're here
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Speaker 2: today to talk about what's going on for you in
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Speaker 2: this chapter of heading to Paris.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, wow, wow, I can't believe it's finally here.
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Speaker 1: It's finally here. It is. We're like two weeks away.
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Speaker 1: Three weeks away? Where are we? I know it's weeks
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Speaker 1: two weeks Yeah, oh e they I so kind of
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Speaker 1: get my head around the fact that I'm going to
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Speaker 1: be going to Paris for the Games. We'll be able
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Speaker 1: to see and witness greatness in front of us and
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Speaker 1: absorb it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, like it's absurd.
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Speaker 1: I lived in London when the Games were on and
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Speaker 1: I didn't go, and I'm slightly scattered crowds, so yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'll have to back up a little bit at times.
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Speaker 1: But the good thing is the main thing I will
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Speaker 1: be doing by myself will be the marathon Port two,
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Speaker 1: and I'm moving so that's fine. I'm just moving through
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Speaker 1: the crowd.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 2: So let's kind of break down the different things that
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Speaker 2: you will be doing while in Paris. You just mentioned
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Speaker 2: the marathon Port two. Talk to me a little bit
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Speaker 2: about that. How you're feeling.
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Speaker 1: So here's the thing my mindset at the beginning of
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Speaker 1: this year, unbeknownst to most people on the other side,
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Speaker 1: of my camera world, I Instagram and Peloton was changing
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Speaker 1: my mindset to just getting it done, to being in
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Speaker 1: that we're just going for a run. There is not
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Speaker 1: any pace pressure on me anymore. And I think I
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Speaker 1: subconsciously accepted that after I had Tallula, because so many
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Speaker 1: things were complete, like I think I may have run
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Speaker 1: my fastest marathon at the Olympic Trials, I had my baby,
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Speaker 1: I put my body through all this other stuff and
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Speaker 1: everything felt good, and I was just like, you know what,
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Speaker 1: pace doesn't define me. That's when I came up with
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Speaker 1: my mantra, forward is a pace. It doesn't matter. As
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Speaker 1: long as you're moving forward, great, whatever the speed is,
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Speaker 1: that's your speed. And so I've had to let that
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Speaker 1: sit with me. This year Tokyo Marathon was the first
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Speaker 1: time that I had to just be like, you're running,
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Speaker 1: You're doing the distance, it's not about the time. That
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Speaker 1: was really beautiful for me. So Marathon Part two is
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Speaker 1: the public event in between the Men's Olympic Marathon and
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Speaker 1: the Women's Olympic Marathon. It's one of the first times
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Speaker 1: ever the public have been invited to be on the
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Speaker 1: course the same course in between two events. I mean,
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Speaker 1: if you know much about the Olympics. It's a very
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Speaker 1: high security, very closed off event. This very much still is.
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Speaker 1: But I think it's wow that normal people get to
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Speaker 1: come and experience what the men have just run and
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Speaker 1: the women will run the next morning. So I'm going
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Speaker 1: to be doing that with NBC. I will be out
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Speaker 1: on the course, running, talking, stopping, chatting, experiencing the tiny
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Speaker 1: six point two at night with people from all over
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Speaker 1: the world. I mean, I know, for my pearls on
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Speaker 1: leaderboard there's people from the US who are flocking over
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Speaker 1: there to see it. There's different distances. I think it's
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Speaker 1: marathon down to five k that they're doing. So that's
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Speaker 1: going to be the kind of the big bulk of it.
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Speaker 1: The rest of it's going to be some social opportunities,
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Speaker 1: talking to people, collaborating with NBC's other platform on her turf,
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Speaker 1: and then there will be some commentary from me in
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Speaker 1: some capacity on the women's marathon event, which is.
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Speaker 3: My goodness, wow, so much to unpack here.
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Speaker 2: First and foremost, I am obsessed with this mantra, for
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Speaker 2: it is a pace I too, am certainly confident that
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Speaker 2: my fastest marathons are behind me. That is entirely fine
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Speaker 2: and great with me. And I say that firmly. You
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Speaker 2: also said it firmly. But talk to me a little
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Speaker 2: bit about how you got to this place where you
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Speaker 2: believe it, because I think that there is a hope
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Speaker 2: or a or a feeling you want to embrace this
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Speaker 2: knowing that it's like this isn't what I'm meant to
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Speaker 2: do anymore in terms of I know that running to
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Speaker 2: run fast isn't what feels good for me anymore. Running
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Speaker 2: fast in its definition, as it evolves with me as
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Speaker 2: I progress in my life, is one thing.
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Speaker 3: But I know that running.
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Speaker 2: The way that I did five years ago does it
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Speaker 2: just doesn't feel right for me. Talk to me about
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Speaker 2: your journey about getting to this place where you feel
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Speaker 2: confident in that sentence, because I know it wasn't an
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Speaker 2: easy one.
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Speaker 1: No, it was humbling. The journey to feel telling it,
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Speaker 1: going to agreeing with it was huge. And I say
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Speaker 1: that because I had to learn grace. And I think
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Speaker 1: that me before Tallula was really mean to myself. I
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Speaker 1: punished myself in many ways of past things in my life,
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Speaker 1: and I would use running as such a release of
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Speaker 1: like you screwed up that in the past. You've got
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Speaker 1: to keep running. And I think it's not It's probably
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Speaker 1: not talked about very much, but I think runners, when
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Speaker 1: we push ourselves, we have some really dark conversations, and
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Speaker 1: I'm sure people discuss it with their therapists. I certainly do,
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Speaker 1: and we all unpack those things privately, and they're probably
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Speaker 1: not things you want to discuss. Like you and I
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Speaker 1: wouldn't sit down with a glass of wine and I'll
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Speaker 1: be like, hey, guess what I thought about when I
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Speaker 1: was running today, and you'd be like, I'm gonna leave.
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Speaker 3: I would never leave you, never.
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Speaker 1: But it's that like, we use a lot of and
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this word, please take it in the way.
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Speaker 1: I mean weapons to push ourselves and challenge ourselves and
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Speaker 1: get really uncomfortable. And I think, as I referred to
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Speaker 1: earlier after the trials, after Tallula, there were so many
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Speaker 1: boxes that were ticked in my mind and I felt
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Speaker 1: this like this joy, this happiness, and I no longer
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Speaker 1: felt this need to push myself to that limit anymore,
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Speaker 1: because when I got that uncomfortable, I just wanted to
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Speaker 1: get off the tread or finish my runt and come
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Speaker 1: back and cuddle my baby, or sit down, or I
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Speaker 1: think about the trials and be like, no, I don't
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Speaker 1: want to go back to those five am, tears on
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Speaker 1: the tread, tears afterwards, tears outside. I don't need to
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Speaker 1: go back there. I am okay with that box being
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Speaker 1: ticked and that box having been ticked in twenty twenty one,
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Speaker 1: and it doesn't need to come back. And that filled
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Speaker 1: me up so much in my post natal journey and
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Speaker 1: now even my training for Tokyo. In my brain, I
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Speaker 1: was like, you got to train harder, you got to
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Speaker 1: train harder. And I didn't and I didn't and I didn't.
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Speaker 1: I didn't really do speed work. I did distance. And
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Speaker 1: that was part of the coming to the agreement with
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Speaker 1: myself of just keep moving, finish twenty six point two,
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Speaker 1: don't worry about the time, keep going forwards. And I
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Speaker 1: tell you, when I got to twenty four miles, I
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Speaker 1: mean you and I were out there and it if
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Speaker 1: somebody had told me I could leave that race at
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Speaker 1: twenty four miles and there would be no consequences. I'd
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Speaker 1: never feel any regret and everything would be sort of deleted.
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Speaker 3: I would have done it, amen, I would have done it.
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Speaker 3: It's a hard day, yeah, I want it out.
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Speaker 1: I was. I couldn't have given a teeny tiny rats
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Speaker 1: bum that there was only two miles left to go.
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Speaker 1: I want it out, And at that point I was
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Speaker 1: just like, I don't care about the time anymore. This
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Speaker 1: is great and it was so Yeah, it just it's
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Speaker 1: taken a while, but now I know, like going to
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Speaker 1: Paris running that race, I'm not going to look at
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Speaker 1: my watch training for my next challenge. I can't look
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Speaker 1: at my watch because we all know to run a
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Speaker 1: fast marathon, To run any marathon is depleting on the body.
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Speaker 1: To train really hard, to run faster and faster and
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Speaker 1: faster consecutively is very very challenging on the body. And
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Speaker 1: some people do it. I've done it, like most of
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Speaker 1: my marathons work consecutive PR after PR. I'm not. I'm
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Speaker 1: not game for that any Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I love I love looking at your smile as you
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Speaker 2: talk about this because it has been a journey, yes,
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Speaker 2: but also you seem so at peace with it now
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Speaker 2: and that makes me so genuinely happy for you. And
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Speaker 2: it's definitely something that's so relatable because I'm sure a
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Speaker 2: lot of people listening to this, whether or not it
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Speaker 2: has to do with running, right, we are always competing
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Speaker 2: with ourselves. We're always dealing with the way that we
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Speaker 2: speak to ourselves, and so it is up to each
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Speaker 2: of us in individually to not only be mindful of
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Speaker 2: what that conversation looks like, but then own up to
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Speaker 2: it when you realize that maybe we should be shifting
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Speaker 2: the tone here.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
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Speaker 2: I also am really excited about you talked about stopping
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Speaker 2: and talking to people and doing all these social things.
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Speaker 3: So really, like, looking at the watch is a non option.
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Speaker 1: It's a non option because the old me would have
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Speaker 1: got incredibly frustrated about seeing a pace that I wasn't
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Speaker 1: familiar with. And I think, I obviously I want to
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Speaker 1: have the watch on because I want the GPS.
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Speaker 3: And I was going to say, so.
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Speaker 2: You want the watch on because Strabo didn't happen. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: pretty much totally.
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Speaker 1: But I also want to remember of like the course.
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Speaker 1: I want to look at that picture and be like, whoa,
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Speaker 1: I ran the Olympic marathon. Course didn't make the Olympics
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Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, irony, And here I am
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Speaker 1: out on the course. But no, I'm not going to
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Speaker 1: be trying to like steam between conversations to make up
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Speaker 1: time now at all, because I really want to have
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Speaker 1: good conversations with people. I want, genuinely I want to
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Speaker 1: know why on Earth people are traveling from around the
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Speaker 1: world to do this, Like what's their why for being there?
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Speaker 1: Because I think there's going to be some really incredible stories.
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Speaker 2: I am also interested in the mindset of running on
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Speaker 2: the Olympic Marathon course as someone who has run the
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Speaker 2: Olympic Marathon trials with the goal to ultimately run the
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Speaker 2: Olympic Marathon. We've already unpacked a little bit about the
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Speaker 2: feelings that go hand in hand with shifting the way
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Speaker 2: you think about your running journey right now, But do
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Speaker 2: you expect there to be emotion about the fact that
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Speaker 2: you have this opportunity and it's so different than you
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Speaker 2: ever expected.
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Speaker 1: It's funny. I sat down to start watching the new
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Speaker 1: Netflix series Sprint, which is phenomenal by the way, and
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Speaker 1: there was a lot of the footage is from Tokyo,
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Speaker 1: and that would have been sort of my race in
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Speaker 1: midst of COVID. You know, nobody around as per the trials,
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Speaker 1: So I think there will be like this, this moment
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Speaker 1: where I will allow my imagination to just probably as
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Speaker 1: I come over the finish line, you know, just to
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Speaker 1: look up and be like, this is what I could
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Speaker 1: have been like. But yeah, I'm still here, and I'm
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Speaker 1: still grateful. I'm still running, you know, three years later
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Speaker 1: after having a baby and I'm doing it. I'm still
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Speaker 1: out here. But now I'm gonna let my little fency
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Speaker 1: well just wander up for quick moments.
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Speaker 2: Hey, I think that it's so beautiful when you take
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Speaker 2: this step back and realize that this is the capacity
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Speaker 2: that it was supposed to happen for you. Yeah, and
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Speaker 2: how awesome is it that you have this opportunity to
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Speaker 2: not only run the course with so many others, but
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Speaker 2: think about that you're running this marathon course as a
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Speaker 2: representative for nb C.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, how does that feel when I say that back
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Speaker 3: to you?
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Speaker 1: Not real it's a dream come true. Ever since I
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Speaker 1: started doing come aryan broadcast for this sport that we love,
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Speaker 1: nothing feels real until I get that microphone in my hand,
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Speaker 1: until I'm sitting there actually talking. So I keep getting
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Speaker 1: my emails and credentials and all of these really exciting
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Speaker 1: things from NBC part of the team, and I'm like,
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Speaker 1: this is really happening. I'm sure you have that with
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Speaker 1: big events where you until you're in it, or even
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Speaker 1: like a vacation you've planned forever. I am the worst
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Speaker 1: person to holiday with because I'm like, it's not gonna happen.
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Speaker 1: Something's getting wrong all the way until I am landed
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Speaker 1: and at the destination. Yes, then I'm like, aed who
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Speaker 1: we are? It's fine, But I just, you know, I
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Speaker 1: just maybe that's the doubter in me, the catastrophized or
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Speaker 1: as lost and calls. It just comes out when it's
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Speaker 1: something that I really care passionately about and something that
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Speaker 1: I desperately want to happen. I'm like, know something someone,
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Speaker 1: I'm just I'm used to something getting in my way,
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Speaker 1: so I'm just going to expect that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's tough.
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Speaker 2: That's a tough thing to befriend and then figure out
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Speaker 2: how to share out of that mindset, Right, you said
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Speaker 2: that catastrophizer.
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Speaker 1: Yes, we don't want bex the catastatizer. Now. Honestly, being
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Speaker 1: a mom's helped because you have to put on a
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Speaker 1: braith face to someone else. So like, I'm sidetracked with
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Speaker 1: Tallula running around the airport, so I'm no longer worried
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Speaker 1: about getting to where we're going. I'm worried about this
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Speaker 1: exact moment of her boarding a flight to Chicago by
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Speaker 1: accident by herself. Yeah, it's very She very much centers
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Speaker 1: me in the moment of focus.
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Speaker 2: Just running down the jet bridge heading to wherever she
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Speaker 2: decides she wants to go in any one day.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be home on the moment of like,
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Speaker 1: where's t Lula Chicago?
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Speaker 3: You need to chip her asa, I.
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Speaker 1: Said that to Austin. I think I need to put
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Speaker 1: an attack around her, like as a necklace.
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Speaker 3: We'll get her a really nice like casing for that.
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Speaker 1: It will be fine.
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Speaker 2: So, speaking of NBC, I do want to rewind a
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Speaker 2: little bit and hear about how you got involved with
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Speaker 2: working with them in the first place for so many again,
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Speaker 2: including yourself a dream opportunity. So what was it like
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Speaker 2: when this first came on your radar?
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Speaker 1: So I'm very lucky. I was introduced to the amazing
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Speaker 1: Rebecca Chapman at NBC through a dear, dear friend of mine, Robernette,
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Speaker 1: who was a writer. He's been in the industry for many,
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Speaker 1: many years, very hugely celebrated writer, and he and Becky
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Speaker 1: go back a long, long way, and he introduced us
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Speaker 1: and we got chatting, and then I went to the
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Speaker 1: trials and we met and it was a very She
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Speaker 1: knew me through Peloton, but didn't know really how to
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Speaker 1: connect with me. Molly Solomon NBC also knew me through Peloton,
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Speaker 1: and it was just it was serendipitous moment of connection
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Speaker 1: through and outside, you know, a seeming outside source bringing
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Speaker 1: us together. And she basically we sat down and she
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Speaker 1: thought up this role for me. It was like, Okay,
17:51
Speaker 1: we're going to get you, We're going to have you,
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Speaker 1: we want you out there, we want to do something
17:54
Speaker 1: with you. Let me come back to you, and she
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Speaker 1: did within a couple of days and was like, I've
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Speaker 1: got an idea. Would you like to do all of this?
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Speaker 1: I was like, yes, I knew you'd love to because
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Speaker 1: you're the person who can run a marathon and talk
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Speaker 1: at the same time. There are so few and far between,
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Speaker 1: right like, okay, yeah, there we go. So it was
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Speaker 1: you know, a few a few phone calls of that
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Speaker 1: disbelief of Wowja're on the floor walking down the middle
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Speaker 1: of SOHO one day when she called and like gave
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Speaker 1: me the full offer, and I was just like, there's
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Speaker 1: no one here. To tell I, like FaceTime, my mom
18:31
Speaker 1: and dad screamed down the phone. I was like, I'm
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Speaker 1: going to Paris with NBC, like just lost it, and
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Speaker 1: it was one of those big moments.
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Speaker 2: So this isn't your first time being behind the microphone,
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Speaker 2: of course, with your time with Peloton, but then beyond that,
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Speaker 2: you've also been doing some things locally with nyr R
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Speaker 2: and beyond, So shed some insight for us on what
18:52
Speaker 2: that journey has been like for you.
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Speaker 1: So I started the conversation came about when I was pregnant,
18:57
Speaker 1: actually with Tallula about doing commentary for the broadcast of
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Speaker 1: the New York City Marathon, and it was just too
19:06
Speaker 1: close to my due date to safely bring me on
19:10
Speaker 1: as part of the broadcast team. Even though I was
19:12
Speaker 1: fully I was like, it's fine, she's not due for
19:14
Speaker 1: like I think it was November third, the race or
19:17
Speaker 1: something like that, and she wasn't duetil the twelfth. I
19:19
Speaker 1: was like, I'll be fine, thought, you don't worry about it.
19:22
Speaker 1: She ends up coming early, so it wouldn't have been fine.
19:25
Speaker 1: So we kind of put a pin in that conversation
19:27
Speaker 1: and we recollected our conversation the following summer ahead of
19:33
Speaker 1: last year twenty twenty three TCS New City Marathon, and
19:37
Speaker 1: so I came on board with ABC seven at ESPN
19:40
Speaker 1: to do commentary at the finish line, which was I'm
19:44
Speaker 1: a crier and like, I'm just you know, I will
19:47
Speaker 1: bore my eyes out on peloton and I think vaguely
19:50
Speaker 1: emotional touching said whatever, I just cry. So there was
19:54
Speaker 1: a lot of moments where I was like, let's got
19:57
Speaker 1: me because I'm like especially when Alston came over the
20:01
Speaker 1: finish line, I.
20:02
Speaker 3: Was like, Okay, we're done.
20:03
Speaker 1: Wait, don't We're done?
20:04
Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 1: I can't be cause I'm gonna cry and I'm not
20:06
Speaker 1: gonna be able to go back on camera. But it
20:08
Speaker 1: was really a wow moment. And I've never been more
20:12
Speaker 1: scared than when you know you have the producer in
20:17
Speaker 1: your ear, you have a pa right there with you,
20:20
Speaker 1: you have like four screens prompts. I had the big
20:22
Speaker 1: screen going on. I was literally at the finish line
20:25
Speaker 1: of my most emotional race and many people's most favorite
20:30
Speaker 1: race too, and I look up and I was I
20:33
Speaker 1: was dancing. I was so nervous. I just didn't know
20:35
Speaker 1: what to do with myself. I was just like, oh
20:37
Speaker 1: my gosh, I'm about to go live on ESPN. This
20:40
Speaker 1: is a dream come true. On ABC seven Local. I
20:43
Speaker 1: was just I was like, no, this is gonna go wrong.
20:45
Speaker 1: I'm gonna mumble. And I look up and on the
20:48
Speaker 1: screen everyone is starting the TCS New York City Marathon,
20:52
Speaker 1: and literally as I look up, there is Austin Selena,
20:57
Speaker 1: Tundae rad for Dennis who was running with them. Who
21:02
Speaker 1: else was running that day? Oh my god? But missing
21:05
Speaker 1: I'm sure I'm missing my colleagues. But they were all
21:08
Speaker 1: starting together, and Austin jumped up and like high five
21:12
Speaker 1: towards the cameraman, and I like was like, that's my
21:15
Speaker 1: sign it's going to be okay. And it just settled me.
21:18
Speaker 1: And it was just no one around me was familiar faces,
21:22
Speaker 1: like the team I'd worked with, but I couldn't see them.
21:24
Speaker 1: There was like a new pa. I didn't know this
21:27
Speaker 1: person other than that morning, and like the New York
21:29
Speaker 1: Road Run, his team who I knew were nowhere around.
21:32
Speaker 1: So just that calm of seeing people you care about
21:35
Speaker 1: love just kind of settle those butterflies. I was like,
21:39
Speaker 1: and here we are. It couldn't have been like you know,
21:43
Speaker 1: when you're just like timing sometimes you couldn't write it
21:46
Speaker 1: in a better way, and it was got I mean
21:48
Speaker 1: everybody caught that on the on the stream because people
21:51
Speaker 1: when I got back to my phone, people were like,
21:53
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, we saw Austin and blah blah blah
21:55
Speaker 1: blah blah. As you came on screen, I'm like.
21:58
Speaker 2: Oh, it is such a really beautiful, reassuring moment before
22:03
Speaker 2: a really scary thing.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: slash hurdle. For you navigating that anxiety, Navigating those nerves
23:54
Speaker 2: not unlike the nerves that come hand in hand with
23:57
Speaker 2: chowing the starting line at a marathon, your self when
24:00
Speaker 2: you're running, or perhaps showing up to your first day
24:03
Speaker 2: of peloton or whatever the case may be. Right, so
24:05
Speaker 2: many different anxiety inducing moments that you have managed to
24:11
Speaker 2: conquer in the past. So what do you lean into
24:15
Speaker 2: when those feelings of anxiety or nervousness naturally occur? How
24:21
Speaker 2: do you hype yourself up to show up to difficult moments.
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Speaker 1: Honestly, I don't think I hype myself up. I really
24:29
Speaker 1: am Like when I hear my other colleagues be like,
24:32
Speaker 1: and I'm your hype person, I'm like, I'm not. I'm
24:35
Speaker 1: so not anyone's hype person Like I don't. I'm like, wow,
24:39
Speaker 1: this is such a stark comparison. But that's why we
24:41
Speaker 1: are all in our different roles. I my, my, my,
24:46
Speaker 1: this is my train of thought. I catastrophize first.
24:50
Speaker 3: We start with catastical.
24:51
Speaker 1: We start with the absolute worst case situation, and from
24:55
Speaker 1: there I work up to best case scenario. And then
24:59
Speaker 1: by the time I've got to best case scenario, I'm
25:01
Speaker 1: probably started and I'm running and I completely forget because
25:04
Speaker 1: when I start moving, everything just flashes out of my brain.
25:08
Speaker 1: It is like that Rolodex just suddenly goes like, Okay,
25:13
Speaker 1: let's go back and reset and restart, and I kind
25:17
Speaker 1: of forget the anxiety. But I definitely I definitely start
25:21
Speaker 1: with I think I think I could testrifize first because
25:25
Speaker 1: I want to accept what could happen the worst case
25:28
Speaker 1: that what could happen. I'm like, okay, okay, if that happens, cool,
25:33
Speaker 1: but I'm not gonna let it happen because this is
25:36
Speaker 1: gonna happen, and like that's my hype. Yes, that comes up,
25:39
Speaker 1: But I'm weird and like I say this to my therapist,
25:44
Speaker 1: they will acknowledge this as well. When I'm overwhelmed and
25:48
Speaker 1: when I don't, like if i don't want to be somewhere,
25:51
Speaker 1: or if I'm starting to have like really anxious thoughts,
25:55
Speaker 1: I have this strange visualization that I do and I
25:58
Speaker 1: don't have had it since I can remember, and it
26:01
Speaker 1: is me solo on a US school I'm English US
26:08
Speaker 1: school indoor basketball court, sitting on the like I don't
26:13
Speaker 1: even know what they're called the steps where people watch,
26:16
Speaker 1: by myself, and it's wooden and there's no one around,
26:19
Speaker 1: there's no basketball, there's nothing, but it's a basketball court.
26:22
Speaker 1: I know that. And I'm always just by myself and
26:24
Speaker 1: I'm very calmly just sitting and that's my weird visualization.
26:28
Speaker 1: I'm like, I think I've ever been in a wooden
26:31
Speaker 1: indoor basketball court in this life, maybe in my bass life,
26:35
Speaker 1: but I grew up in England never played basketball. Like
26:38
Speaker 1: it's such a strange thing, but it's my calm, weird,
26:41
Speaker 1: calm place.
26:42
Speaker 3: So I love that for you.
26:44
Speaker 2: I mean, hey, if you're a weird calm place is
26:47
Speaker 2: a safe basketball gym sitting on some bleachers. I think
26:50
Speaker 2: you're okay, right, Like, I love that visualization or that
26:55
Speaker 2: thought process that you go through asking yourself what's the
26:58
Speaker 2: worst thing that can happen? Because nine point nine percent
27:01
Speaker 2: of the time, the worst thing that could happen is
27:03
Speaker 2: typically that you're just exactly where you started. And we're
27:07
Speaker 2: so scared about things not going to plan that we
27:10
Speaker 2: allow that fear to fester and we idate all of
27:15
Speaker 2: these unrealistic possibilities. But really, most of the time, the
27:19
Speaker 2: worst thing that's gonna happen is you're exactly where you started.
27:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I always say this when this is referring
27:25
Speaker 1: to anything you trained for. Again, we're not just talking running.
27:28
Speaker 1: I know the audience is mainly running, but whatever you
27:32
Speaker 1: trained for, when we get to race day, we forget
27:36
Speaker 1: the training. I do. I know you like we've had
27:40
Speaker 1: I'm sure this conversation of like, huh, I have just
27:44
Speaker 1: busted my behind for months weeks, and you're on that
27:50
Speaker 1: start line and it disappears. And even as you say,
27:54
Speaker 1: even if you get a meta off, that start line
27:59
Speaker 1: doesn't matter because you have to remember how hard you
28:02
Speaker 1: worked in the training. The race is a luxury. It's
28:07
Speaker 1: a blessing that you get to be there. I say
28:10
Speaker 1: this in my classes. It is the cherry on top
28:13
Speaker 1: of the sprinkled icing, on top of the thousand tiered
28:16
Speaker 1: cake with all the cream or whatever in between that
28:19
Speaker 1: you've created. It is the teeny tiniest part of what
28:22
Speaker 1: you should be really proud about. It's a bonus.
28:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, so Paris is kind of the bonus right now.
28:29
Speaker 2: If you think about the fact that you have done
28:31
Speaker 2: so much and you got the opportunity right, And I
28:36
Speaker 2: think that in itself is such a testament. There's so
28:39
Speaker 2: much that again we talk about or think about, like, oh,
28:42
Speaker 2: this could go this could happen, this could go wrong,
28:44
Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera.
28:45
Speaker 3: But the fact that they came to you.
28:49
Speaker 2: That is so special because there are so many people
28:53
Speaker 2: they could have come to. Yeah, but they thought Rebecca Gentry,
28:58
Speaker 2: that woman's got or something.
29:00
Speaker 1: I don't know. I need to check if I'm Rebecca
29:01
Speaker 1: or Beck some my credentials. I would think Rebecca because
29:03
Speaker 1: it was all government stuff.
29:05
Speaker 2: So yeah, all government stuff. Okay, So but back to
29:09
Speaker 2: getting behind the microphone. You talked about your experience at
29:11
Speaker 2: the TCS New York City Marathon, the nerves anxiety that
29:14
Speaker 2: came with that. As you continued on throughout that day
29:18
Speaker 2: and did more and more on camera work, you heard
29:21
Speaker 2: the person in your ear what feelings thoughts were going
29:24
Speaker 2: through your mind?
29:25
Speaker 1: How can I do this better? How can I get
29:29
Speaker 1: this opportunity again? How can I grow here? It was
29:33
Speaker 1: so exhilarating in the moment, and it flew by, It
29:35
Speaker 1: went so quickly, and I wanted there to be more.
29:38
Speaker 1: And anyone who's ever done it you know it soundbites.
29:41
Speaker 1: It's literally you work for weeks pulling this together and
29:45
Speaker 1: you're on for less than a minute here and there,
29:48
Speaker 1: and it's gone. And I just kept thinking, to my
29:51
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I cannot wait for the feedback. I
29:53
Speaker 1: cannot wait to see how I can be better at
29:55
Speaker 1: this because I love doing it. It sparked something really
30:00
Speaker 1: really new in me, and I loved that feeling of Okay,
30:06
Speaker 1: I've got to grow this. This is the seed, it's
30:08
Speaker 1: been planted, it's being watered, and I need to just
30:10
Speaker 1: keep watering this.
30:11
Speaker 2: I think it's really admirable that you are looking forward
30:16
Speaker 2: to someone telling you what to do differently, because it
30:20
Speaker 2: shows that you have an openness not only to that feedback,
30:25
Speaker 2: but also to the potential that could come from someone
30:28
Speaker 2: saying something that maybe you don't want to hear. So
30:32
Speaker 2: in that exercise, in getting that feedback, what was the
30:37
Speaker 2: most useful for you to slow down?
30:40
Speaker 1: I think from years of being a peloton instructor, of
30:45
Speaker 1: having time blocks to fit certain things into, I thought
30:51
Speaker 1: it would be quite an easy transition to be okay,
30:56
Speaker 1: you have roughly ninety seconds to conduct this interview. It
31:00
Speaker 1: something like, whatn't it so you the human brain? I
31:06
Speaker 1: think we are so weird with time, like all of
31:09
Speaker 1: us are so different. Some of us think time moves
31:11
Speaker 1: so slowly. But again, it's kind of what excites you.
31:15
Speaker 1: And I spoke I think too fast because I know
31:18
Speaker 1: one of my points I had like ten seconds more
31:20
Speaker 1: and I could have carried on. I could have I
31:23
Speaker 1: don't know, just brought a little bit more passion or
31:27
Speaker 1: energy into certain parts of the conversation. So that was
31:30
Speaker 1: a really great learning of watching it back and slowing
31:33
Speaker 1: down of I will always be told in your ear
31:38
Speaker 1: when we're wrapping up, and worst case scenario they just
31:40
Speaker 1: cast away, but you're always going to be told of like, okay,
31:42
Speaker 1: we're cutting to Brittany Bell or Sam Ryan, whoever it
31:47
Speaker 1: was at that point, okay, and a good host can
31:53
Speaker 1: pull a conversation to an end quite quickly and concisely,
31:56
Speaker 1: and you move on. So that was really exciting to
31:59
Speaker 1: hear that feedback and be like, oh cool, Okay, now
32:00
Speaker 1: I've got to really learn to have that confidence to
32:03
Speaker 1: be talking to a stranger about something potentially deep and
32:06
Speaker 1: interesting and just have to go, thank you so much
32:09
Speaker 1: for your time today, We're moving on.
32:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, very wildly different than your experience at Peloton. What
32:16
Speaker 2: else would you say was the biggest shift from what
32:19
Speaker 2: you're used to doing on camera.
32:23
Speaker 1: I think having someone in my ear, yeah, because we
32:26
Speaker 1: don't have anyone in our ears at Peloton. We have
32:28
Speaker 1: a screen in front of us where the control room
32:30
Speaker 1: will give us alerts if something, music, sound, something is happening.
32:36
Speaker 1: We'll get almost safety style alerts, but we're not produced
32:41
Speaker 1: that way. So in amongst the outside noise, in ear noise,
32:46
Speaker 1: that in your head noise, there was a lot going on.
32:50
Speaker 1: So the first like practice in the mornings of that,
32:52
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa Okay,
32:55
Speaker 1: and I mean I was. I was at the finish
32:57
Speaker 1: line as the wheelchair race was and going in for
33:02
Speaker 1: my second hit, and they were literally directing them on
33:05
Speaker 1: either side. So it was like dodgems for me. I'm like, okay,
33:09
Speaker 1: whilst being told to stand here, they're everywhere. I had
33:12
Speaker 1: the cameraman like directing me here. So that was a lot.
33:15
Speaker 1: It was really the looking at ten cameras that was
33:17
Speaker 1: really overwhelming. When I started, Peloton suddenly felt like a breeze.
33:20
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, very different, super different.
33:23
Speaker 2: And also you're now speaking to a very different audience, right,
33:31
Speaker 2: So how was that experience for you? Because when you're
33:34
Speaker 2: at Peloton, you almost kind of know what to expect
33:38
Speaker 2: at this point, Like you know that you're going to
33:40
Speaker 2: have people that are your people that are hanging out
33:42
Speaker 2: with you. Yeah, you also know that maybe there are
33:44
Speaker 2: going to be people that don't feel as passionately about
33:47
Speaker 2: you as your people, and okay, we've learned how to
33:50
Speaker 2: navigate those people as well. But when you get to okay,
33:53
Speaker 2: I'm going to be on local TV or okay, I'm
33:55
Speaker 2: going to be on ESPN, it's a whole new can
33:58
Speaker 2: of worms.
33:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, it's very I think I kind of had
34:03
Speaker 1: to almost block it out because the big difference between
34:07
Speaker 1: the two audiences is the Paladin Peloton audience is allowed
34:11
Speaker 1: and they will slide into your DMS if they didn't
34:14
Speaker 1: like something, or didn't agree with something, or thought one
34:17
Speaker 1: track was not great. And I definitely don't think ESPN
34:22
Speaker 1: ABC seven they don't care as much. It's again, it's
34:27
Speaker 1: a small hit amongst a very big, very loved event
34:31
Speaker 1: in New York City. So I think it was almost
34:35
Speaker 1: freeing for me in that respect to be like, oh, okay,
34:37
Speaker 1: I'm not going to have so and so we learn
34:39
Speaker 1: I'm never gonna take your class again because you played
34:41
Speaker 1: that music. Well, not today.
34:45
Speaker 2: I'm probably still going to watch the New York City
34:47
Speaker 2: Marathon next year, even if BEX is doing this.
34:49
Speaker 1: And I'm like, eh, yeah, because it's ninety seconds where
34:52
Speaker 1: you can just go and get a cup of tea
34:54
Speaker 1: and come back what I'm fine, Oh my god.
34:57
Speaker 2: Well, obviously people are also tuning in to your ninety
35:01
Speaker 2: seconds as we gear up for the Olympics. Tell me
35:04
Speaker 2: what is it that you are most excited about feeling it?
35:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, the buzz Austin just got back from Paris himself
35:12
Speaker 1: for fashion Week and he said the feeling, the vibe
35:15
Speaker 1: in Paris was so different, and he's been going there
35:18
Speaker 1: for ten years at this time, and he's like, it
35:20
Speaker 1: was just it was a bit more like edgy, Like
35:23
Speaker 1: on Edgley, there was a bit more like WHOA, what's
35:25
Speaker 1: going on? What's going on? So I'm really excited to
35:29
Speaker 1: have this old city filled with modernity and success of
35:36
Speaker 1: this current generation of athletes.
35:38
Speaker 3: Sport you're most excited to watch?
35:41
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. Honestly, is the marathon? I really am.
35:45
Speaker 1: I think it's a it's a somewhat new field. I'm
35:49
Speaker 1: really excited to see Rose Harvey on the UK team,
35:51
Speaker 1: see what she does. She's just her story is great her.
35:56
Speaker 1: I've been following her training closely on Instagram and I
35:59
Speaker 1: really stoked to see her fly.
36:02
Speaker 3: See her fly.
36:03
Speaker 2: If you backs, aside from the marathon, had to participate
36:06
Speaker 2: in any Olympic sport.
36:07
Speaker 3: What would it be?
36:08
Speaker 1: Dressage?
36:10
Speaker 2: Oh wow, we did not expect that one. Okay, tell
36:15
Speaker 2: me about your why for dressage.
36:17
Speaker 1: I really wanted to enjoy riding horses when I was younger.
36:20
Speaker 1: My sister ride horses. I just never loved it. I
36:26
Speaker 1: didn't trust them at all, but I would religiously go
36:29
Speaker 1: and watch the dressage, and I am wowed by the outfits,
36:35
Speaker 1: the humans where the braiding of the horse is Maine,
36:38
Speaker 1: and their tail and I just I just the little
36:41
Speaker 1: heel flakes. Oh my god, I just would love to
36:43
Speaker 1: be up there in my cute little suit, waking my horse, dance.
36:47
Speaker 3: In my cute little suit.
36:49
Speaker 2: You know what I don't want to be doing in
36:51
Speaker 2: a cute little suit is being in Paris.
36:54
Speaker 3: No.
36:54
Speaker 2: The heat, well right now it's cold. So I've been
36:57
Speaker 2: told that it's been about seventy degrees or something.
37:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, yesterday it was sixty four and raining. So if
37:03
Speaker 1: it stays that way, heavens are happy. Because Paris and
37:08
Speaker 1: Europe in the summer is I mean, for the Europeans,
37:11
Speaker 1: they're fine, they understand and deal with it. But for
37:14
Speaker 1: the one hundred and twenty track and field US team
37:18
Speaker 1: and all the other athletes, but for sure the outdoor
37:21
Speaker 1: teams here, they're going to be like ish. I know.
37:24
Speaker 3: I know.
37:24
Speaker 2: When I was I was looking for like where I
37:26
Speaker 2: was going to stay and everything. The first thing was
37:28
Speaker 2: just making sure it had air conditioning because a lot
37:31
Speaker 2: of the homes in Paris do not.
37:32
Speaker 1: Have any air Airbnb is now yeah wow, yeah, yeah,
37:36
Speaker 1: it's going to be very interesting. But again, like what
37:39
Speaker 1: Tokyo was really hot, wasn't it as well? And people
37:42
Speaker 1: were really struggling. So the trials for the marathon this
37:45
Speaker 1: year super hot day. Yeah, so maybe people are climatized.
37:49
Speaker 1: We don't know.
37:50
Speaker 3: Maybe.
37:52
Speaker 2: Actually part of this series, I had Italian Minsburg, who's
37:55
Speaker 2: a reporter for the New York Times, come in and
37:57
Speaker 2: sit down and talk about what her experience has been
38:00
Speaker 2: like reporting covering over three different Olympic Games.
38:04
Speaker 3: Now this will be her fourth, I believe, and her.
38:07
Speaker 2: Most recent article that went live on the Times is
38:10
Speaker 2: about the fact that this could be one of the
38:13
Speaker 2: hottest Olympics in recent history.
38:15
Speaker 1: Oh yikes, here we go, here we.
38:17
Speaker 3: Go, here we go.
38:19
Speaker 2: Outside of you yourself running the marathon. When it comes
38:21
Speaker 2: to the possibility of commentating on the women's marathon the
38:26
Speaker 2: following day, do you feel as though this would be
38:29
Speaker 2: different than your previous experience or where are we sitting
38:32
Speaker 2: with that?
38:33
Speaker 1: Yeah? I do. I think it will be very different.
38:38
Speaker 1: I feel well this year, I know on track and field,
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Speaker 1: the US women's have completely outshone the men. Yeah, and
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Speaker 1: I think going into the I'm going to talk about
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Speaker 1: the marathon because that's my speciality. Going into this race specifically,
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Speaker 1: there is high hopes we have a really strong roster
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Speaker 1: of women up there, so I think it's going to
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Speaker 1: be very interesting to follow them because they don't have
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Speaker 1: a huge career behind them. There's a lot of the
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Speaker 1: time at TCS New York City Marathon, for example, you
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Speaker 1: are talking about the leaders with their decade plus of
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Speaker 1: running history behind them and their accolades, and like, oh,
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Speaker 1: someone is just on the you know, ten thousand meters
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Speaker 1: cross country, but you know, right now we're not looking
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Speaker 1: at people who have a huge like list of medals
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Speaker 1: behind them, which is really thrilling to think, Wow, this
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Speaker 1: is a whole new realm of athletes coming through the works.
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Speaker 1: Like I remember when it was the Nadal Federer, Djokovic
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Speaker 1: always at the top of the game. Then you rewind
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Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, yeah, it was sampress agacy, and
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Speaker 1: you just think about these waves of athletes coming through,
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Speaker 1: and the goat goes through. You've got like Lewis Hamilton,
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Speaker 1: Max Mustappen in Formula one, who's the new ones? Coming
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Speaker 1: rising up right now? Is it Lando or is it Charles?
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Speaker 1: Like is it? So that's what thrills me of. Where
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Speaker 1: are they the trials? We're just a wow moment to
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Speaker 1: see like Dakota coming through. I was standing right next
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Speaker 1: to her coach and he was like gripping the air
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Speaker 1: of like She's gonna do it, and just this this
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Speaker 1: moment was so huge for them. So I can't even
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Speaker 1: imagine this next level. And so I hope getting to
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Speaker 1: speak to them, their coaches, their teams, whoever we can
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Speaker 1: talk to, and then watch them do it on the
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Speaker 1: day in amongst athletes from all over the world, athletes
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Speaker 1: who I have not watched in the trials, like obviously
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Speaker 1: the UK team have paid very close attention to, but
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Speaker 1: I haven't seen. I don't know much about the other athletes.
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Speaker 1: And all of these women are so FIUs and you know,
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Speaker 1: big shout out to Alison Felix for making the moms
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Speaker 1: out there more comfortable at the Olympic village this year.
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Speaker 1: And there's so much change that's happening for women in
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Speaker 1: sport that's working towards making the experience for them smoother,
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Speaker 1: therefore allowing them to perform to their fullest potential and
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Speaker 1: this could be the first year we really see that shine.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm so excited not only to watch that event,
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Speaker 2: but just all of these women that are truly breaking
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Speaker 2: barriers and doing things in ways that we've really never seen.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're seeing.
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Speaker 2: I mean, every other day at the trials was personal
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Speaker 2: best to make the team, personal best to make the team.
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Speaker 2: And that is truly remarkable and definitely gives you some
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Speaker 2: goosebumps thinking about what's going to happen when we really
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Speaker 2: get on that big stage.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh my gosh. I am also really amped
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Speaker 3: for the marathon.
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Speaker 2: I think the thing that is so interesting about that
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Speaker 2: race specifically is the trials are so quote unquote early
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Speaker 2: comparatively so far, so it's almost as these athletes get
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Speaker 2: to go into their own little hidden cocoon for a
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Speaker 2: while and then emerge and show what they've been doing
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Speaker 2: over the last handful of months, whereas within track and field,
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Speaker 2: all of those athletes were just on display and it's like, okay,
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Speaker 2: three weeks, time to turn it around again.
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, they are like peak, They're peaking right now
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Speaker 1: and peaking again in a few weeks. But the Olympic
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Speaker 1: marathon trials. We're back in February. It's so long and
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Speaker 1: we've seen the girls came down to do the mini
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Speaker 1: ten k, the Masteracar Mini ten k here in New York,
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Speaker 1: so there was a great you know, we got to
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Speaker 1: see them. That's it. It's really like oh wow, as
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Speaker 1: you say, they've got into this like recovery from the
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Speaker 1: trials and then back into a training block.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, stopped training.
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Speaker 2: They are not yet on the side of the coin
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Speaker 2: that we talked about, which we're graduating. No, yeah, are graduating.
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Speaker 3: We're moving on. Well, I'm so excited not only for
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Speaker 3: you and.
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Speaker 2: This major opportunity, but also selfishly that we get to
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Speaker 2: be there together.
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Speaker 3: It's going to be great.
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Speaker 2: What would you say right now outside of the working
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Speaker 2: aspect of being in Paris?
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Speaker 3: Is there anything you have to do while you're there?
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Speaker 1: I want to have a glass of red wine a
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Speaker 1: cute Well, last time I went, I was pregnant.
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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And it was the first time Austin and I
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Speaker 1: went together.
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Speaker 4: Oh so the City of Love and we had a
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Speaker 4: beautifully romantic dinner in one of his favorite restaurants, teeny
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Speaker 4: tiny restaurant, and we'd talked since we met about going
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Speaker 4: to Paris and sipping on a nice glass of wine together,
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Speaker 4: and we didn't get so not that he's coming on
43:37
Speaker 4: this trip, So you and I have with lots of
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Speaker 4: friends and send him a picture.
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Speaker 2: I'm like secretly like yes, oh my god, Well I'm
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Speaker 2: so amped.
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Speaker 3: I can't wait to drink red wine with you.
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Speaker 1: Head over to you at Bee's Gentry on Instagram.
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