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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: A Love Letter To Bagels & My Younger Self · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Hello, good afternoon, good evening.
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  Speaker 2: Whenever you are listening to this Emily here, you are
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  Speaker 2: listening to five minute Friday from Hurdle.
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  Speaker 1: I hope that you had a good week. I had
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  Speaker 1: a good week.
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  Speaker 2: I will say that this what we're calling it fake
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  Speaker 2: spring in New York, these fifty something degree days that
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  Speaker 2: will not last through the spring months. I know we're
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  Speaker 2: going to have like another cold reprieve. It's okay, we
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  Speaker 2: are tough enough to handle it. But it was so
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  Speaker 2: necessary for me and so many of you. I am
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  Speaker 2: sure this week. I had a thought on the couch
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  Speaker 2: today and that's what I'm here to talk about, and
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  Speaker 2: that is about bagels. I have been, like everyone you're
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  Speaker 2: following on Instagram and TikTok and whatnot, on the protein
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  Speaker 2: bagel kick. The recipe is super simple, makes five to
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  Speaker 2: six bagels. It's two cups of all purpose flour, a
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  Speaker 2: teaspoon of baking powder, a half a teaspoon of salt,
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  Speaker 2: and two cups of either cottage cheese or Greek yogurt.
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  Speaker 1: I go cottage cheese.
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  Speaker 2: I've been on this kick and I've been making the
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  Speaker 2: bagels at least once a week, and when I was young,
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  Speaker 2: I ate regular bagels for breakfast honestly almost every day,
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  Speaker 2: and when I in college changed the way that I
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  Speaker 2: was eating and as a result lost a lot of weight.
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  Speaker 2: I mentally put bagels in the bad category. Like in
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  Speaker 2: my mind, I associated eating and consuming a bagel as bad.
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  Speaker 2: And I am someone these days that really doesn't like
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  Speaker 2: to label foods at all good or bad. I believe
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  Speaker 2: that you can have everything in moderation. Like this is
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  Speaker 2: coming from a woman who once a week enjoys what
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  Speaker 2: we call Pastry run Club on Fridays. We run and
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  Speaker 2: try different pastries every Friday, me and some friends, and
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  Speaker 2: I firmly believe that there is room for everything. Needless
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  Speaker 2: to say, with all that said, I still have this
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  Speaker 2: thing where I don't eat a lot of bagels.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't do it until now.
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  Speaker 2: And every single day I'm not exaggerating, for the last
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  Speaker 2: two weeks. I wake up, I use the bathroom, do
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  Speaker 2: my skincare, take medication, walk into the kitchen, take out
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  Speaker 2: the toaster from the cabinet, put a protein bagel in
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  Speaker 2: the toaster, and make my coffee. Once the bagel's ready,
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  Speaker 2: I put on a little bit of butter.
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  Speaker 1: And I walk over to the couch.
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  Speaker 2: I sit on my couch and I do my whole
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  Speaker 2: morning routine, and the only thing that's new is a
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  Speaker 2: part of that morning routine is the I have eaten
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  Speaker 2: a bagel every day for the last two weeks before
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  Speaker 2: I move my body in the morning, and I'm noticing
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  Speaker 2: a lot of differences. It feels like I am able
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  Speaker 2: to function better in my body. I have never been someone,
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  Speaker 2: with the exception of long runs, that fuels before a
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  Speaker 2: morning workout. It's just never been something that felt necessary
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  Speaker 2: for me. And this energy that I'm giving my body,
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  Speaker 2: I truly feel the word giving, like I am giving
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  Speaker 2: myself a gift, like I am embracing my inner child
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  Speaker 2: by eating this bagel, which sounds I'm like hearing myself
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  Speaker 2: say it.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds so silly.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds so silly, but it feels like such a gift,
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  Speaker 2: and it feels so good, and it's something that I
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  Speaker 2: look forward to. And I know that often people have
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  Speaker 2: what they call fixation meals. I guess you could say
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  Speaker 2: that right now, this specific bagel recipe is my fixation meal.
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  Speaker 1: But it does feel so healing, and I know.
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  Speaker 2: That I'm not alone in having things in these categories
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  Speaker 2: of thinking that they are quote unquote bad. I've done
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  Speaker 2: so much work to combat that, but today was just
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  Speaker 2: one of those moments where I had this thought, and
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  Speaker 2: I thought about how beautiful it was that I was
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  Speaker 2: enjoying this moment with my bagel on the couch, and
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  Speaker 2: that I was hugging my younger self, and that felt
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  Speaker 2: really nice. I don't know if you're laughing listening to this,
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  Speaker 2: that's okay, that's okay. This is just what's going on
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  Speaker 2: with me. I don't necessarily have a prompt for you
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  Speaker 2: about bagels today, but this does lead me down the
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  Speaker 2: road of talking a little bit about protein consumption.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to get into it.
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  Speaker 2: A lot here right now, but with the bagel and
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  Speaker 2: the overnight oats and a protein shake, now I'm in
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  Speaker 2: this place where I'm consuming at least almost sixty to
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  Speaker 2: sixty five grams of protein in the morning before lunch,
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  Speaker 2: and that has dramatically changed both the way that I
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  Speaker 2: feel in my body and the way that I'm able
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  Speaker 2: to execute candidly in my body. So my prompt for
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  Speaker 2: you this week is, what is one choice that you
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  Speaker 2: have made lately that improves you your mindset your health
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  Speaker 2: for the better. What is one choice that you have
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  Speaker 2: made that improves you your mindset your health for the better.
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  Speaker 2: There you go, and now a listener question. Hey, Emily,
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  Speaker 2: my name's Olivia. I'm throwing at you a few questions
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  Speaker 2: up to you. Which one you use?
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  Speaker 1: We love options here? Thanks Olivia.
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  Speaker 2: I know that you're a pretty fast runner these days,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm curious about the journey. How long after you
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  Speaker 2: started running did you run your first race? And then
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  Speaker 2: how long after that first race did you run another one? Okay,
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  Speaker 2: this is a good question. Gosh, I don't remember what
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  Speaker 2: happened before the first half marathon that I signed up for,
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  Speaker 2: but I do remember that I had a couple of
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  Speaker 2: five k's under my belt. So I started running in
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  Speaker 2: the summer of two thousand and eight, and I ran
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  Speaker 2: my first half marathon in the fall of two thousand
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  Speaker 2: and nine. Yeah, so I was running for a little
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  Speaker 2: over a year before I ran a half marathon, and
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  Speaker 2: the first summer I literally was running no more than
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  Speaker 2: a mile.
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  Speaker 1: Every day for sixty days.
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  Speaker 2: After that summer of learning how to like running and
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  Speaker 2: then eventually to love running, that's when I started stringing
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  Speaker 2: together five k's five miles. It took time, but I
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  Speaker 2: definitely had a very gradual build. And then my first
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  Speaker 2: half marathon was the ig Hartford Half in the fall
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  Speaker 2: of two thousand and nine, and it was such a
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  Speaker 2: joy for me. I believe my next race I ran
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  Speaker 2: the more fitness at the time, it was called half
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  Speaker 2: Marathon in Central Park and that would have been in
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  Speaker 2: April of twenty ten, so that was the progression. I
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  Speaker 2: ran a half marathon for the first time in the
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  Speaker 2: fall of two thousand and nine, then another half marathon
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  Speaker 2: in the spring of twenty ten, and that's when I
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  Speaker 2: really got the bug and started running more and more
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  Speaker 2: half marathons. I didn't run my first full marathon until
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  Speaker 2: twenty and twelve, so three years after I started running,
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  Speaker 2: I ran a full marathon, which in retrospect is I'm
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  Speaker 2: even impressed. I don't remember that timeline being so concise,
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  Speaker 2: where there's a why, there's a way. Running made me
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  Speaker 2: feel really strong and capable and good in my body,
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  Speaker 2: just like it does right now, and I really leaned
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  Speaker 2: into kind of hammering down each distance, making sure I
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  Speaker 2: felt comfortable with each distance before gradually leveling up to
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  Speaker 2: the next one. Always here for your questions, feel free
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  Speaker 2: to email me over at Hello at hurdle dot us
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  Speaker 2: and keep up with hurdle over on Instagram. It's over
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  Speaker 2: at Hurdle Podcast and I'm over at Emily a Body,
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  Speaker 2: Another hurdle conquered.
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  Speaker 1: Catch you guys next time.