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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: Meeting Yourself With Where You're At Is Pretty Empowering · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Emily A body here. You are listening to
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  Speaker 1: five Minute Friday from Hurdle. I hope everybody had a
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  Speaker 1: nice Thanksgiving Yesterday. I spent it in Connecticut seeing my family,
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  Speaker 1: and of course I kicked off the morning doing my
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  Speaker 1: favorite annual tradition. Okay, maybe it's not my favorite tradition,
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  Speaker 1: but I will say that it's something I do every year,
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  Speaker 1: and that is the Peaquat road Runners Turkey Trot in Southport, Connecticut.
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  Speaker 1: And so I've been doing it, man, maybe since twenty seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, at least the better part of my adult life.
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  Speaker 1: In the years that it happened with gestures loosely COVID
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  Speaker 1: and I did not look at any of my previous
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  Speaker 1: times going into this year. I just had like an understanding,
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  Speaker 1: a thought about what it was that I wanted to do.
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  Speaker 1: And last year I walked it with my mom and
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  Speaker 1: it was lovely, and past years I have truly just
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  Speaker 1: run it to run it, just hitting some movements, some
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  Speaker 1: activity as I like to do regularly, especially before the
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to gather with friends and family. Anyway, I went
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  Speaker 1: in yesterday knowing that I wanted to really see what
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  Speaker 1: I could do right, and I told myself that I
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  Speaker 1: had an ideal pace that I wanted to hit, and
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  Speaker 1: long stories short, it was extremely hard and challenging and
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  Speaker 1: wet and cold, let's also say that, but I surpassed
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  Speaker 1: even my goal. And it was only after the fact
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  Speaker 1: that I realized that this time was faster than I'd
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  Speaker 1: ever done it before. And like I said, I've been
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  Speaker 1: doing this for a handful of years and it makes
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  Speaker 1: me really so appreciative and it feels almost even more
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  Speaker 1: special than aiming for a personal best because I'm not
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  Speaker 1: really in this place anymore where I have any desire
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  Speaker 1: to compete with my past self. I'm going to say
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  Speaker 1: that one more time. I'm not in a place in
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  Speaker 1: my life right now where I have any desire to
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  Speaker 1: compete with my past self. And I think that that
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  Speaker 1: can be the challenging thing about that term PR, Like
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  Speaker 1: I will never be the same as I was when
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  Speaker 1: I was twenty eight or thirty, or thirty two or
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  Speaker 1: twenty one or in my teens. Right I am a
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  Speaker 1: different woman, and that is because of all of my
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  Speaker 1: great lived experience, and so I just am beyond shooting
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  Speaker 1: for prs, so to speak. But I am all about
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  Speaker 1: meeting myself with where I'm at now, and setting goal
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  Speaker 1: is based on what feels good. And so yesterday the
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  Speaker 1: goal that I set it felt good for me, and
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  Speaker 1: I attained it, and then I found out that it
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  Speaker 1: was better than I had ever done before. And Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's just something so special about that, about meeting yourself
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  Speaker 1: with where you're at, about being realistic about what feels
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  Speaker 1: good for you. And it feels so rewarding to chase
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  Speaker 1: the potential that I have in this moment, in this body.
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  Speaker 1: And that's certainly applicable beyond movement, beyond getting a pull
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  Speaker 1: up in the gym, beyond some sort of new push
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  Speaker 1: up goal, when et cetera. Right, there is just something
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  Speaker 1: so important and so valuable about being realistic about the start,
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  Speaker 1: because when we're honest with ourselves, that's the first step
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  Speaker 1: to improving or to implementing any sort of change whatsoever.
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  Speaker 1: As I said here and I tell a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about this story, I truly just feel real grateful for
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  Speaker 1: the lessons that I've learned over the last gosh decade
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  Speaker 1: plus of running. I feel really grateful for my body,
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  Speaker 1: especially after years of navigating injury after injury and I'm
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  Speaker 1: mostly grateful for the grace that that injury cycle instilled
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  Speaker 1: in me, so now that when I show up to
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  Speaker 1: do something that might feel just a little bit crazy,
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  Speaker 1: I know that whatever happens, it's okay. Right in these cases,
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  Speaker 1: it's just trying for something fun. It's trying for something
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  Speaker 1: that feels good, and at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: I know that that's the goal. All I want to
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  Speaker 1: do is feel good in the act of pursuing the
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  Speaker 1: things that excite me, both on the road and well
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  Speaker 1: beyond it. My question for you this week what are
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  Speaker 1: you grateful for? I know it's a little cheesy with
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  Speaker 1: the holiday and everything, but I wrote about this in
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  Speaker 1: today's weekly Hurdle newsletter Gratitude Daily has changed my life,
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  Speaker 1: and so I ask you what is one thing that
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  Speaker 1: you are grateful for? From the past twenty four hours
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  Speaker 1: and now a listener question. Hey, Emily Jana here, I am,
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  Speaker 1: like many I am sure or in your messages, looking
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  Speaker 1: for a good gift for my boss at work. I
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  Speaker 1: know you've recommended books in the past. I'm wondering if
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  Speaker 1: you have one that I can get her and maybe
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  Speaker 1: some other people on my list love the show and
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  Speaker 1: grateful for you. Solid question and an easy one to
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  Speaker 1: answer because I family. Friends. If you're listening to this,
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  Speaker 1: maybe now's a good time to tune out, because I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to share what I bought for so many of
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  Speaker 1: my people, and that is The Pivot Year by Brianna Weist.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm saying that right, and if
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  Speaker 1: I'm not, I apologize, but I have seen clips of
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  Speaker 1: this throughout this year, and after implementing an anthology into
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  Speaker 1: my regular routine a few years ago called Journey to
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  Speaker 1: the Heart, I decided that I wanted to now turn
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  Speaker 1: the page literally and start with a new book. And
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  Speaker 1: I'd love to do that with people that I care about.
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  Speaker 1: So this book, The Pivot Year, is set up to
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  Speaker 1: be a daily guide, a helpful companion, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: for anyone that needs a little extra motivation daily. And
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  Speaker 1: so there is a certain passage for every day and
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  Speaker 1: I think it's just a really promising, fun way to
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  Speaker 1: begin your day. So rather than reaching for your phone
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  Speaker 1: and checking Instagram or what you may have missed in
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  Speaker 1: the eight hours since you last touched it, and anthology
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  Speaker 1: is what I like to reach for first thing in
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  Speaker 1: the morning. So the pivot year again is what it's
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  Speaker 1: called them linking it in the show notes. It's a
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  Speaker 1: book of three hundred and sixty five different daily meditations
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  Speaker 1: on finding courage to become who you've always wanted to be.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm really excited about it. So that is my
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  Speaker 1: recommendation for a gift this year. Again, so grateful for
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  Speaker 1: all of you. Thank you so much for being a hurdler.
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  Speaker 1: I'm over at Hurdle Podcast and at Emily Abody another
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  Speaker 1: hurdle conquered. Catch you guys next time.