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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: Routine Is The Gift That Keeps On Giving · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Hey everyone, Emily a body here. You are listening to
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  Speaker 1: five Minute Friday from Hurdle. I am recording live looking
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  Speaker 1: at the water right now on a Virgin Voyages cruise ship. It.
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  Speaker 1: Eh my gosh. It feels a little silly to talk
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  Speaker 1: about this because there's so much going on in the world,
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  Speaker 1: but this was something that I planned back in November,
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  Speaker 1: and so I am getting off the ship tomorrow. I've
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  Speaker 1: been on it for a week. Unfortunately, we haven't had
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  Speaker 1: the best weather. It's been rainy and cloudy for most
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  Speaker 1: of the time here. I think out of the seven days,
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  Speaker 1: we got one day of sun. But an amazing place
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  Speaker 1: to be despite the fact that it wasn't sunny and bright.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the facilities are gorgeous. The restaurants are top notch.
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  Speaker 1: I went to Extra Virgin last night. If you live
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  Speaker 1: in New York, you know how amazing their food is
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  Speaker 1: and so much fitness. Like the fitness facilities on this
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  Speaker 1: boat are mind blowing and something like twenty classes a day. Again,
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  Speaker 1: so much different than anything I ever remember cruising to be.
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  Speaker 1: So if you are looking for some sort of a
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  Speaker 1: trip that I would say is pretty budget conscious, I
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  Speaker 1: would definitely recommend looking into going on a Virgin Voyages cruise.
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  Speaker 1: I digress. I've been thinking a lot this week because
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  Speaker 1: I'm out of my usual one about routine, and it's
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  Speaker 1: something that I'm writing about in the newsletter day I
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  Speaker 1: talked about recently on social as well. Routine, in my mind,
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  Speaker 1: is such a gift, and there are always going to
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  Speaker 1: be things that beckon us to get out of our
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  Speaker 1: routine right whether it is uncontrollable circumstance, even though you
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  Speaker 1: may be home, whether it is travel, work, travel, disagreements
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  Speaker 1: or with friends or loved ones that make you feel
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  Speaker 1: some kind of way. So many different things can pull
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  Speaker 1: us out of our normal routine or make it feel
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  Speaker 1: like the routine is not possible. But what has been
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  Speaker 1: a constant for me, despite so much uncontrollable over the
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  Speaker 1: last three sixty five is doing the same things almost
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  Speaker 1: every single day, although those things might look a little
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  Speaker 1: bit different. So the aspects of my routine right now
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  Speaker 1: that feel so good to me, my morning routine habit stack,
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  Speaker 1: if you will. It involves breathwork, journaling, gratitude, moving my body,
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  Speaker 1: light exposure. Those are non negotiables for me, and like
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  Speaker 1: I said, they still might look a little bit different
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  Speaker 1: depending on my circumstance. So, for instance, on the cruise
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  Speaker 1: this week, I have a schedule that I'm sticking to.
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  Speaker 1: I am training for the Cherry Blossom ten miler in
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  Speaker 1: April in Washington, d C. And so I have running
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  Speaker 1: that I've had to do. I also stick to a
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  Speaker 1: string training routine. I've had strength workouts that i have
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  Speaker 1: to do, and then I've been doing all the other things,
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  Speaker 1: even though it's been a little bit cloudy with the
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  Speaker 1: light exposure. So for me, the reason why I am
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  Speaker 1: so firm on this being something that I beckon you
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  Speaker 1: to integrate is that there's so much goodness in it.
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  Speaker 1: When I execute on my routine to the best of
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  Speaker 1: my ability, the world shows up for me because I
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  Speaker 1: show up for myself. And I know that sounds a
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  Speaker 1: little woo woo, right, It sounds a little flufy, if
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  Speaker 1: you will, but it is the truth because when I
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  Speaker 1: fill my own cup, I have a more optimistic perspective
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  Speaker 1: on what is available to me, what my options are,
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  Speaker 1: what I am capable of doing. When we don't pour
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  Speaker 1: into our own cup, when you don't put on your
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  Speaker 1: own oxygen mask first, you are less capable of doing
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  Speaker 1: anything for the people that are around you, and so
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  Speaker 1: you don't need to do what I'm doing. I actually
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  Speaker 1: don't want you to do what I'm doing if it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't feel good for you. That is the first question
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  Speaker 1: that you've got to ask yourself when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: implementing any sort of routine, is what feels good for
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  Speaker 1: insert your name here, get honest about that, and also
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  Speaker 1: meet yourself with where you're at. So maybe you do
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  Speaker 1: want to integrate some sort of a journaling practice into
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  Speaker 1: your routine, but at this point writing for a full
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  Speaker 1: page or two doesn't seem accessible. That's also okay. Start
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  Speaker 1: with writing one thing a day that you're grateful for.
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  Speaker 1: If you are not writing anything at all right now,
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  Speaker 1: and then you just want to start writing the next
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  Speaker 1: great American novel. It's the part of your morning routine.
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  Speaker 1: It's probably not going to stick. So meet yourself with
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  Speaker 1: where you're at, and trust me, you will have no
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  Speaker 1: regrets about it. The power of the routine. I'm telling
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  Speaker 1: you my prompt for you this week. Take a look
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  Speaker 1: at what you're doing right now, what's working, what's not,
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  Speaker 1: and is there something that you can add into your
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  Speaker 1: morning that's going to make you feel like the world
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  Speaker 1: also wants to show up for you again. Take a
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  Speaker 1: look at your morning routine. What's something that's working right now,
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  Speaker 1: what's one thing that you may want to add in,
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  Speaker 1: and what feels good for insert your name in the blank,
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  Speaker 1: and now a listener question. Hey, Emily, my name is
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  Speaker 1: Brittany and I am looking for a running shoe suggestion.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a crazy runner, but I am someone who
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  Speaker 1: logs something about ten to fifteen miles a week and
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  Speaker 1: searching for something that's comfortable and not too expensive. Would
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  Speaker 1: love your thoughts. Thanks. Okay, comfortable and not too expensive.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to say this, while I can understand having
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  Speaker 1: a budget for your sneaker situation, I want to encourage
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  Speaker 1: you to invest in yourself, knowing that you are getting
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  Speaker 1: something that's going to dramatically impact you for the better.
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  Speaker 1: With that caveat out there, you can often find a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the shoes that I'm about to recommend to you.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it's like a version or too older than the
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  Speaker 1: newest version. So like the new A six Nimbus twenty seven,
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  Speaker 1: you can get the twenty six or the twenty five
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  Speaker 1: online and it will still be such a great staple
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  Speaker 1: for your rotation, So might go to neutral running sneaker.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go the Nike Pegass. They're also coming out
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  Speaker 1: with a new iteration of their Romero shortly, which I've been.
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  Speaker 1: It was a sneaker that I chose to bring with
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  Speaker 1: me on this cruise and it has been Chef's Kiss
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  Speaker 1: really awesome. The Acex Superblast is one of my favorites.
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  Speaker 1: Also the Acex Nimbus, and there's a brand new Acex
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  Speaker 1: Nimbus out there. Brooks Ghost Max heavily in the rotation
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  Speaker 1: right now. Really big fan of that shoe. I love
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  Speaker 1: the extra cushion from the regular book Brooks Ghost. It
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  Speaker 1: feels really good underfoot. I've run up to something like
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  Speaker 1: twenty miles in that shoe, so I can say it's
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  Speaker 1: great for everything from a five K to really going
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  Speaker 1: the distance. And then I'm going to round it out
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  Speaker 1: with God, what's the last thing that's right by my
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  Speaker 1: friend door right now? Oh? The Hokah mock is by
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  Speaker 1: the door right now. Really like that sneaker. I'm also
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  Speaker 1: a Bondie fan. I feel like you have to kind
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  Speaker 1: of find your sweet spot with Hoka. Go into your
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  Speaker 1: run specialty store. The closest one to your place. Try
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of them, run on the treadmill and see
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  Speaker 1: what feels good for you. But the mock is also
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  Speaker 1: a neutral running sneaker that's in my regular rotation. Hope
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  Speaker 1: these help If you need any more Rex I am
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  Speaker 1: all ears and also always here for your listener questions.
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  Speaker 1: Shoot me an email over at Hello at hurdle dot
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  Speaker 1: us and your question could be featured in upcoming episode
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  Speaker 1: of the show. That's it for this week. Make sure
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  Speaker 1: I am over at Emily a Body Another hurdle conquered.
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  Speaker 1: Catch you guys next time.