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Finding Peace On The Trail: Becs Gentry On Pushing Physical Limits, Adventure Beyond 40 & Owning Your Realness · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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Speaker 1: Don't be of a confident, but don't undersell yourself.
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Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, Emily, a body here. You are listening to
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Speaker 2: another episode a Hurdle, a podcast featuring the mindset, secrets,
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Speaker 2: and true stories of the most inspiring women in sports
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Speaker 2: and wellness, empowering you to live a healthier, happier, more
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Speaker 2: motivated life and of course conquer your own hurdles. And boy,
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Speaker 2: this week, do I have a special conversation for you.
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Speaker 2: I am so happy to be chatting with Bex Gentry.
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Speaker 2: She's a longtime friend of the show at Peloton, instructor,
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Speaker 2: a Hoca Global brand and faster, a mega inspiring athlete
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Speaker 2: both on and off the run, and a longtime friend
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Speaker 2: of mine. And we had this combo in front of
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Speaker 2: a live audience at Rivian here in New York City.
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Speaker 3: They asked if.
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Speaker 2: We wanted to post up as a part of their
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Speaker 2: Performance House, a special week of programming that the team
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Speaker 2: was putting together, and absolute no brainer. What a fun
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Speaker 2: opportunity to meet some of you, hang out with my
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Speaker 2: dear buddy, and of course have a really special conversation.
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Speaker 2: So of course we dive right in me asking Bex
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Speaker 2: how she's doing. Really, she gets really candidate about feeling
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Speaker 2: so many things, overwhelmed and sore and tired as she's
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Speaker 2: currently preparing for what she refers to are two of
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Speaker 2: the biggest races of her life, races that will take
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Speaker 2: her to extreme altitudes in extreme heat. We talk about
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Speaker 2: her evolution as a runner, how she went from running
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Speaker 2: to escape a toxic relationship to finding adventure on the trails,
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Speaker 2: and why Becks is returning to those trails now to
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Speaker 2: find peace and reclaim sometime for herself. She also shares
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Speaker 2: about how turning a forty has changed her relationship with
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Speaker 2: her body, making her feel more vulnerable to fatigue and stress,
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Speaker 2: and what diligence looks like when you're juggling being a mom,
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Speaker 2: being a partner, being a professional, and why sometimes showing
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Speaker 2: up for yourself means giving yourself the grace to rest
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Speaker 2: and adjust your expectations. Plus, she shares a wild story
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Speaker 2: about a recent trail run on the Appalachian Trail that
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Speaker 2: included close encounters with the following a bear, a snake,
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Speaker 2: a dog, a turtle, and a squashed porcupine. So many
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Speaker 2: things anyway, I digress again. Thanks to the team at
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Speaker 2: Rivian for having us and as always make sure you're
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Speaker 3: And with that, let's get to it. Let's get it's
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Speaker 3: a hurdling.
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Speaker 2: Sitting down here tonight for a live taping of Hurdle.
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Speaker 2: My name is Emily A Body and alongside me I
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Speaker 2: have the ever lovely Beck Gentry.
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Speaker 1: Hi everyone, thank you for coming out in this wild weather.
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Speaker 2: That work experiencing some wild weather, and we just need
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Speaker 2: to acknowledge the elephant in the room.
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Speaker 3: I'm so sorry for your loss.
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Speaker 1: It's okay, it's okay, it's okay. I'll do what it's tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: We had a hard moment for England for those of
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Speaker 2: you following the World Cups.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we won. For a while, in my mind that
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Speaker 1: was about fifteen minutes where I was like, I cannot
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Speaker 1: believe this is happening. We're going to be Argentina and
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Speaker 1: we're going to be in the World Cup. Final, and
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Speaker 1: then they scored two moguls.
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Speaker 2: Oh man, well, I am happy that you made it here,
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Speaker 2: nonetheless and always so happy to sit down and chat
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Speaker 2: with you. You know how I always start the show
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Speaker 2: give me the rundown backs.
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Speaker 3: How are you doing? Really?
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Speaker 2: Really?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, really really overwhelmed, incredibly tired, soul and really excite
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Speaker 1: to slash nervous.
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Speaker 2: Okay, let's unpack that a little bit. It's not all
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Speaker 2: about tonight tired and sore. What has the training been
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Speaker 2: like lately for you?
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Speaker 1: Insane? Yeah, insane. For those of you who may know
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Speaker 1: a light part about my background and running, I'm traditionally
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Speaker 1: known as a road racer over the marathon distance, having
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Speaker 1: completed in the UK TEAMGB Olympic trials in twenty twenty one.
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Speaker 1: And it's you know, I love to run fast. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's me. I do like to run fast on the
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Speaker 1: flat road. How I started running was trail. It was
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Speaker 1: out there. It was adventuring with a group of girlfriends
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Speaker 1: many many years ago, and I've come back to that
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Speaker 1: as I don't know, a mind reset, a life reset,
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Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it. And I'm on the
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Speaker 1: precipice of two of the biggest races I've probably ever
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Speaker 1: done in my life, one being next weekend and the
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Speaker 1: other one being five or so weekends after that. And
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Speaker 1: my body hates me.
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Speaker 3: My body hates me. Interpretive, it also loves you.
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Speaker 2: It does because you are putting yourself through a little
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Speaker 2: bit of uncharted territory, right and although there are some
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Speaker 2: soreness involved, the hurdles you were clearing no pun intended,
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Speaker 2: necessarily mentally are really special and an experience that's really
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Speaker 2: giving back to you from what you've told me.
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Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely. You know we're here at Rivian HQ and
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Speaker 1: New York and we are a block away from the
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Speaker 1: water here, the Hudson River, So that gives you an
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Speaker 1: insight into my training. I'm a sea level athlete. I'm
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Speaker 1: about to embark on a race that is eleven eight
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Speaker 1: hundred meters up and twelve thousand down. Sorry feet, don't
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Speaker 1: freak out. I just said, you're like, where are you going?
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Speaker 1: Eleven eight feet up and twelve thousand down? So I'm
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Speaker 1: not just battling the climb and the decent, I'm battling altitude.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be ninety four degrees on the day,
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Speaker 1: so I think the only thing I've got on my
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Speaker 1: side is the oven that New York's been for the
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Speaker 1: past month. That I'm like kind of used to running
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Speaker 1: in the heat. So that's been a big hurdle of
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Speaker 1: just trying to figure out how on earth a sea
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Speaker 1: level athlete who is a full time career professional, a mom,
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Speaker 1: a partner, a human as well, I have real things
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Speaker 1: that I like to do aside from running. How I
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Speaker 1: do all those things and train for this this turn
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Speaker 1: high long race.
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Speaker 2: Where do you find your inspiration from? And I asked
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Speaker 2: that in the context of you could choose to do
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Speaker 2: anything right, you said, C level athlete, someone that likes
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Speaker 2: to run on the roads and in the past has
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Speaker 2: liked to run quite fast, so fast that you ran
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Speaker 2: in the Olympic trials. Right, So what has inspired this
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Speaker 2: chapter for you? What has inspired you to go back
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Speaker 2: to the trails?
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Speaker 1: I think when I started running, it was a release.
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Speaker 1: It was way back when I was still working in
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Speaker 1: PR and marketing. I was in a very toxic personal
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Speaker 1: relationship and I ran to escape my life, I guess,
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Speaker 1: and I think a lot of us can relate to that.
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Speaker 1: A lot of us probably started into fitness to remove
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Speaker 1: ourselves from something that wasn't great for us, and to
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Speaker 1: give us solace, to give us freedom, and to give
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Speaker 1: us health benefits, and that progressed me into trail running.
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Speaker 1: Back in that time, I was twenty five, give or
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Speaker 1: take twenty four twenty five, and I had a fantastic
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Speaker 1: group of girlfriends and we love to travel the world,
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Speaker 1: and we would we travel the world. We do ultra
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Speaker 1: races around the world, and it was our way of
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Speaker 1: exploring together. We'd bunk up in rooms, so it was cheap.
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Speaker 1: I lived in the UK, so it was really cheap
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Speaker 1: to get to Europe, unlike here, and so that was
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Speaker 1: such a like. It was fun, it was adventure, and
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Speaker 1: I think at this point in my life there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of seriousness. I have a very serious career. Although
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Speaker 1: it may look very fun and unicorns and rainbows on
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Speaker 1: the screen, it's still a very serious career. I have
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Speaker 1: to show up. I have to have a healthy, able
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Speaker 1: body five days a week at least to perform on camera.
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Speaker 1: I have to be happy and positive even when excuse
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Speaker 1: my friends shit's going down at home or wherever. I
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Speaker 1: have to be supportive to the people on outside the camera,
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Speaker 1: and being a mom. I'm a parent and of course
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Speaker 1: just the most wonderful thing in the world is also
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Speaker 1: the toughest thing I've ever done, day in, day out.
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Speaker 1: There escape, no escape. She's fine, She's not going back.
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Speaker 1: I cannot trade her in for the new model. And
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Speaker 1: so it says a lot of pressure. And I think
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Speaker 1: road racing is fantastic, but I had my era there
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Speaker 1: and I'm not saying I'll never go back to that,
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Speaker 1: but trail running just gave me this, Like I'm literally
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Speaker 1: by myself. I'm road racing. You're always with people, which
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Speaker 1: is great, and that's why a lot of us do it.
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Speaker 1: Because you've got the support of the twenty six point two.
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Speaker 1: You've got people in every corner of New York cheering
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Speaker 1: you along. I can get into the trails and I
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Speaker 1: can hallucinate and.
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Speaker 3: Look at a tree and be like, you look great
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Speaker 3: right now.
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Speaker 1: No one can see me, and in that moment and
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Speaker 1: I'm just by myself, and it's very freeing, and it
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Speaker 1: gives me the peace I need at this time in
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Speaker 1: my life.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, what I'm hearing you articulate so well is that
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Speaker 2: you are a chronic energy dealer. You are someone that
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Speaker 2: is constantly in service of others. Whether it is the
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Speaker 2: Peloton community and those members, whether it is your family.
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Speaker 2: And this is a choice, and that doesn't mean that
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Speaker 2: it doesn't get heavy at times. So for you to
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Speaker 2: now take take on this new adventure, take to the trails,
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Speaker 2: try something new, challenge yourself. I think it's really exciting
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Speaker 2: and it's really invigorating, and it's it's inspiring to watch
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Speaker 2: because it's you reclaiming something for yourself.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, And it's so important for all of us to
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Speaker 2: kind of do that right, to do a little bit
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Speaker 2: of inventory, to ask what is it that I need
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Speaker 2: right now and how can I best support myself.
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Speaker 3: We hear it all the time.
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Speaker 2: You got to put your own oxygen mask on so
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Speaker 2: that you cannot only show up for yourself, but then
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Speaker 2: of course you can also show up for others when
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Speaker 2: it comes to putting the oxygen mask on. Now, for you,
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Speaker 2: I know, after your exciting birthday in March that we celebrated,
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Speaker 2: do you want to tell them what we celebrated?
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Speaker 1: The Big Four?
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Speaker 3: Oh, the Big Four to zholl.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, taking stock and being honest with yourself looks a
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Speaker 2: little different these days, it.
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Speaker 1: Does, it really does. It's kind of like when you
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Speaker 1: hit thirty. That hangover you have on your thirtieth birthday
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Speaker 1: if you drink is like, god, damn, it happens.
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Speaker 3: It's different.
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Speaker 1: It's different, and forty was very different for me. It
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Speaker 1: was a different celebration of my parent as I said,
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Speaker 1: and like it's just it wasn't swept under the rug.
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Speaker 1: We had a great day or we celebrated, we did stuff.
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Speaker 1: I went away with my family. But as a female,
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Speaker 1: your body changes, and it's not like overnight. It's not
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Speaker 1: in that moment. It's not like if you follow me,
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Speaker 1: you know, I hate the whole New Year, New you situation.
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Speaker 1: It's just like it's just a bloody night. Like it's
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Speaker 1: literally you're just going to sleep from one night to
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Speaker 1: the next. You can do that any day of the
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Speaker 1: year if you want to rechange anything. But I have
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Speaker 1: felt that this year twenty twenty six, my forty year fear,
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Speaker 1: my body has just become a little bit more vulnerable.
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Speaker 1: Whether it's too external stress, whether it's too fatigue, whether
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Speaker 1: it's too annoyance. Myhues is shorter. You know, it's all
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Speaker 1: the small things, and it's the stuff you read about perimenopause,
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Speaker 1: you understand, like my partner's snoring at night. I used
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Speaker 1: to be like, that's kind of cute, and now I
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Speaker 1: want to punch him in the face every night. And
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Speaker 1: it's just the like the night sweats where you think
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Speaker 1: it's just because the ac is not kicked in, and
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Speaker 1: you're like, oh god, the house is at sixty eight degrees.
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Speaker 1: Why am I so hotwhere I sleep? Because I've got
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Speaker 1: a twenty mile trail run tomorrow. And it's just those
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Speaker 1: things where you're adding that into it. Having an almost
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Speaker 1: four year old who doesn't give the monkeys about what
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Speaker 1: I do when I'm not with her. She doesn't care
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Speaker 1: if I've run twenty miles, fifty miles, one hundred miles.
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Speaker 1: She's just like your mom. You are here to play
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Speaker 1: with me, make me happy and be happy with me,
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Speaker 1: and cook my food and put me to bed, and
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Speaker 1: you do it, and even if you're sore as anything,
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Speaker 1: you do it. And it is just a lot that
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Speaker 1: is exhausting. And it has been such a awakening of
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Speaker 1: understanding my body and how my body performs in a
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Speaker 1: very different way.
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Speaker 2: So many people come to you and they want to
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Speaker 2: know about diligence. They want to know how you do it,
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Speaker 2: and as you explain this transition, we hear a lot
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Speaker 2: about the structure and the diligence within your routine this morning.
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Speaker 2: I admittedly also may have had an extra martini last night,
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Speaker 2: and I had no problem still getting out the door
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Speaker 2: and going to the gym. And that is because I
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Speaker 2: have now decided in my life that I am a
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Speaker 2: person that goes to the gym in the morning. That
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Speaker 2: is something that I do. It is how I identify.
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Speaker 2: It may look a little different on a daylight today,
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Speaker 2: but it's still going to happen. When someone comes to
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Speaker 2: you and they ask you, where do you find the structure?
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Speaker 2: How do you show up when you don't feel like it?
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Speaker 2: What do you say to them?
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Speaker 1: Sometimes I don't. Sometimes I don't show up, and I
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Speaker 1: get annoyed with myself and I get frustrated, and I've
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Speaker 1: learnt to understand that that's okay. Uh, we're human. I
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Speaker 1: think that we are in this kind of weird point
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Speaker 1: in the world where we're almost robotic, and it's scary
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Speaker 1: that we feel like we have to get up, go
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Speaker 1: to work, or get up, go to the gym, go
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Speaker 1: to work, achieve a cheap a cheap, a cheap, achieve
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Speaker 1: all day and achieving is ticking these things off. But
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Speaker 1: what are you like We've talked about this before, and
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Speaker 1: I know Sahil Bloom if you've ever read his books,
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Speaker 1: he's really into like ABC results of like this is
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Speaker 1: your a, this is what's gonna happen. I'm gonna wake up,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get an hour's work out in in the gym,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to go to work, and I'm gonna blah
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Speaker 1: blah blah blah. But then you have the B option
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Speaker 1: and the C option and then the other. And I've
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Speaker 1: really taken that on board of like this is what
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Speaker 1: I'd love to do today. But Tallula wakes up at
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Speaker 1: four am in the morning, she's unwell. I'm not just
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Speaker 1: going to be like cool, babe, look after yourself. Mom's
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Speaker 1: going to go for a run. Like I'm mom. I
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Speaker 1: have to be there. I have to snuggle with her,
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Speaker 1: I have to make sure she's okay, cook her breakfast, cuddle,
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Speaker 1: and my workout's out the window. I have to go
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Speaker 1: to work then. So it's really like having the understanding
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Speaker 1: that diligence isn't always about showing up on that a level.
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Speaker 1: Diligence is about showing up for you all of the
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Speaker 1: hats and the roles that you have to play in
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Speaker 1: your life and being okay with that, because definitely, when
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Speaker 1: I didn't have a kid, I had much more a
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Speaker 1: goals that were more like, quote unquote selfish, And I
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Speaker 1: don't mean selfish in a negative way. I love being selfish.
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Speaker 1: It fulfills me so especially now as a parent. But
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Speaker 1: now it's like diligence is juggling my hats, making sure
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Speaker 1: that I am ticking all the boxes, and movement may
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Speaker 1: end up being once Ta Lula's in bed, I'll take
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Speaker 1: my dog for a walk for half an hour. I'm
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Speaker 1: still moving my body. That's still great. It's still better
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Speaker 1: than nothing. It's so better than sitting on the couch
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Speaker 1: and just sitting there with a top of ice cream
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Speaker 1: and watching Netflix.
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Speaker 3: And sometimes you need the tough ice cream.
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Speaker 2: Imagine the Netflix. It's so true. I want to double
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Speaker 2: click on you. You said the word grace, and that's
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Speaker 2: just so important, and it goes back to what you
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Speaker 2: were speaking on on this new era of being in
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Speaker 2: your forties and embracing that sometimes rest is the way
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Speaker 2: and getting to a place where you are okay with grace.
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Speaker 2: Has been something that's been challenging for you. I have
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Speaker 2: watched as your friend as you've gotten to this point
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Speaker 2: where you own I can't do it today, and genuinely
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Speaker 2: have now become okay with that.
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Speaker 3: It's a struggle. Talk to me a little bit about
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Speaker 3: the struggle of that.
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Speaker 1: I think it's it's external. I think I've always been
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Speaker 1: a semi lazy person in my mind, which I love.
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Speaker 1: I love that lazy girl in me who is like,
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Speaker 1: it's okay, let's just chill, let's just not that's fine,
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Speaker 1: But my job requires me to show up again. If
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Speaker 1: you've ever followed me or taken a lot of my classes.
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Speaker 1: I love social media, but I hate it. It's a
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Speaker 1: curated box of good stuff that we put out there,
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Speaker 1: and a lot of how we're viewed is based on
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Speaker 1: those squares, and it's not the truth. There's a lot
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Speaker 1: of other things we're we're not. We're not that the screen,
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Speaker 1: We're not those like nine squats, sorry, Jacob. We're not
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Speaker 1: the nine squares that people can see. We're so much
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Speaker 1: more than that. And I think I've really had to
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Speaker 1: like juggle that world to give myself grace to just
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Speaker 1: sometimes be like this isn't going my way today, or
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Speaker 1: this isn't or it is going you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: It's just like it's like having a new vision of yourself.
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Speaker 1: You know. I think we all see ourselves in this
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Speaker 1: weird that always always quote this episode of Friends where
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Speaker 1: Rachel is like telling Ross that she loves him and
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Speaker 1: then she burst up laughing and she's like, I just
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Speaker 1: floated up out of myself. And I watch myself say that,
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Speaker 1: and it's ridiculous. And I always have this vision of
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Speaker 1: myself of like seeing myself not doing my workout, not
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Speaker 1: doing my run, not taking Ta Lula to school, and
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Speaker 1: like it's like I have this other lens and I
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Speaker 1: have to understand what those things are and how they
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Speaker 1: mean to me. And that's weirdly and then this sounds
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Speaker 1: like a ramble. It gives me grace of like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: that doesn't actually mean that much to me. If I
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Speaker 1: don't do that work out today, Yeah, no, I'm good
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Speaker 1: with that. I will take Tea to school or my
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Speaker 1: ten mile run or turn into a two mile run,
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Speaker 1: and that's okay.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes when you're juggling, you're gonna be juggling that are
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Speaker 2: glass and balls that are rubber, and you need to
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Speaker 2: allow yourself to know which ones are glass, which ones
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Speaker 2: are rubber.
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Speaker 3: And maybe sometimes that's.
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Speaker 1: Why I have that tattoo.
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Speaker 2: They're gonna she has a a what would you call that,
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Speaker 2: a ballerina? A ballerina, she's a dancer and she's spinning plates, yep.
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Speaker 2: And sometimes you need to know that they're gonna fall
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Speaker 2: on the ground. And so you have to choose which
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Speaker 2: day what's going to be rubbers and what's going to
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Speaker 2: be glass.
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Speaker 3: And it's not easy.
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Speaker 1: It's not easy. But when you have the understanding and
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Speaker 1: you give yourself the grace to understand that it changes
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Speaker 1: day in day out, it gets easier.
19:52
Speaker 2: You reference, you know, those nine squares that someone might
19:55
Speaker 2: see when they come and look at your social media page.
19:59
Speaker 2: If you to back, think about the top three the
20:03
Speaker 2: things that right now you're really focused on the things
20:06
Speaker 2: that are in your personal highlight reel.
20:09
Speaker 3: What are you thinking of.
20:11
Speaker 1: Thinking of my daughter, of just outdoors, of being outdoors,
20:16
Speaker 1: of just showing her the world. We're so lucky to
20:20
Speaker 1: live in this incredible city, but it's scary and it's
20:25
Speaker 1: covered in a weird way. It's crazy, how scared I
20:29
Speaker 1: am of her? Leaving my house here in Brooklyn, and
20:31
Speaker 1: then when we go out of the city, our front
20:34
Speaker 1: doors not even locked, and she's just able to go out.
20:38
Speaker 1: We live on a really quiet, private area and she's
20:41
Speaker 1: almost four and she can just run over the road
20:43
Speaker 1: and see her friends. And it's so it's how I
20:47
Speaker 1: envisioned my life at forty, instead of being petrified of
20:51
Speaker 1: my daughter going down my stoop and falling down the
20:53
Speaker 1: stoop because the railings are too wide, and like, I
20:57
Speaker 1: don't know if someone's dog coming and getting her because
20:59
Speaker 1: she's with our dog, and there's so many fear factors.
21:03
Speaker 1: So I think, yeah, there's a lot about like that
21:05
Speaker 1: outdoor happy life that is my new life out of
21:08
Speaker 1: the city. I think realness. I don't know what there
21:13
Speaker 1: actually is of just understanding. I'm not a running I
21:19
Speaker 1: am a running influencer, which I really hate admitting, but
21:21
Speaker 1: I guess I am a running influencer. But I'm not
21:23
Speaker 1: a running influencer who has got their like lipliner on
21:27
Speaker 1: and their hair perfectly slipped back and I lashes on.
21:29
Speaker 1: I'm the running influencer who is like drenched in sweat
21:32
Speaker 1: and has what I call my tiger stripes because I've
21:35
Speaker 1: worked and I'm like red and white blotchy, and that
21:38
Speaker 1: might be because it's a hot day or because I've
21:40
Speaker 1: worked hard, so that I guess that's up there of
21:44
Speaker 1: like real and yeah, I don't know, just the world
21:50
Speaker 1: a happy version of the world, because the world is
21:53
Speaker 1: tough right now. But there is a chance, there is
21:56
Speaker 1: a chance for us all to see it as a
21:58
Speaker 1: happy place. We just have to like c direct our algorithms.
22:02
Speaker 2: Consciously choose what's in those top three those top three
22:05
Speaker 2: squares of the top of the profile. I appreciate what
22:09
Speaker 2: you said about who it is that you are, and
22:13
Speaker 2: I hear so often this desire from you to be
22:18
Speaker 2: a person maybe of influence, but not necessarily an influencer,
22:22
Speaker 2: and in that showing the realness.
22:25
Speaker 3: I say it all the time.
22:27
Speaker 2: Vulnerability is relatable, the tiger stripes are relatable.
22:31
Speaker 3: Perfection is anything but.
22:33
Speaker 2: And to be in the position that you're in and
22:36
Speaker 2: so open with the community that you touch, it's truly
22:40
Speaker 2: a privilege to be your real.
22:42
Speaker 3: Self and show up in that way.
22:45
Speaker 2: I also really appreciate you sharing your feelings about reclaiming
22:50
Speaker 2: some of that space upstate. What has that space given
22:55
Speaker 2: you emotionally, mentally, You've been spending a lot of time
22:59
Speaker 2: up there, so tell me about what it's done for you.
23:02
Speaker 1: I think appreciating the small things again, like this city
23:07
Speaker 1: is so awesome and so cool, but you have everything
23:09
Speaker 1: on your doorstep, like at your fingertips. If you've forgotten
23:12
Speaker 1: something and you've done your groceries, you can postmates it
23:15
Speaker 1: and it's going to be here in twenty minutes. Or
23:18
Speaker 1: you decide to have some friends over and you can
23:20
Speaker 1: order a bag of chips and drinks or whatever you
23:23
Speaker 1: want in twenty minutes. And I feel like from my
23:27
Speaker 1: personality it's made me a little bit like days ago
23:32
Speaker 1: and moving upstate. Our nearest supermarket is twenty minute drive away,
23:37
Speaker 1: and so you have to be organized, and it's been
23:40
Speaker 1: really wonderful to kind of become this organized person again
23:44
Speaker 1: of planning out. Okay, so we're going to eat this
23:47
Speaker 1: on Friday, this on Saturday, We're doing this on Sunday.
23:52
Speaker 1: So yeah, there's that side of it. It's also a
23:56
Speaker 1: very big disconnect from the fast pace of the city.
24:00
Speaker 1: I struggle with that. I come from the countryside in England.
24:02
Speaker 1: I lived in London before I came here, so I
24:04
Speaker 1: definitely didn't come straight from like nothing to hear. But
24:08
Speaker 1: I find New York very anxiety and juicing at times
24:11
Speaker 1: when I'm already overwhelmed by life, I find this city
24:14
Speaker 1: just a lot. So it's allowed me that space to
24:17
Speaker 1: just be sit with it being a lot, but deal
24:20
Speaker 1: with it quicker and get through it quicker. And it's
24:24
Speaker 1: going to sound so privileged, but like, instead of going
24:26
Speaker 1: for my morning run, can I go for a paddle
24:29
Speaker 1: board in the morning and it's my time. I can
24:32
Speaker 1: just get out. I live right by a lake and
24:33
Speaker 1: it's like glass and it's my time. Just like sometimes
24:37
Speaker 1: Tulula comes with me and she lays on the front
24:39
Speaker 1: of the paddle board and it's great. Other times it's
24:41
Speaker 1: just me and I have my route like I run
24:45
Speaker 1: where I go around a little island and I paddle
24:47
Speaker 1: board back and it's very peacemaking for my day. So
24:51
Speaker 1: it's been lovely to start new routines and just kind
24:55
Speaker 1: of slow down a little bit. And then I come
24:58
Speaker 1: back to the city and work and have that like
25:01
Speaker 1: the hit of the city.
25:04
Speaker 2: There's a lot going on sid again, Yeah, perspective is
25:08
Speaker 2: a privilege. Yeah, and you have worked very hard to
25:15
Speaker 2: get to a place where you've afforded yourself the opportunity
25:21
Speaker 2: to wake up and go for a paddle board, right,
25:24
Speaker 2: to wake up and claim that space for yourself. So
25:27
Speaker 2: while I can understand why you may disclaim it at
25:31
Speaker 2: the end of the day, that's something to step into.
25:34
Speaker 2: That's something that you have done, and I think it's
25:38
Speaker 2: something that's quite admirable. You also, as you articulated so well,
25:44
Speaker 2: have created this really beautiful mental space for yourself. But
25:49
Speaker 2: we know when we make the space, things start to
25:53
Speaker 2: occupy the space. This also takes us to the fact
25:56
Speaker 2: that you are on the trails for longer, you're running
25:59
Speaker 2: for longer.
26:00
Speaker 3: I want to get inside your head.
26:02
Speaker 2: I want to hear a little bit about what you're
26:05
Speaker 2: really processing thinking about when you're out there for miles
26:09
Speaker 2: on miles. I know you have a lot of long
26:11
Speaker 2: races coming up, so talk to me a little bit
26:13
Speaker 2: about your evolution with self talk when it comes to
26:17
Speaker 2: the run.
26:18
Speaker 1: Oh, I think, honestly, it's easy to occupy yourself on
26:21
Speaker 1: a trail one because you are paying much more attention
26:24
Speaker 1: to your footing, to your environment. Flat road surfaces you
26:27
Speaker 1: kind of do just go into overdrive and there can
26:29
Speaker 1: be these sort of duck conversations, like conversations, music podcast,
26:34
Speaker 1: whatever you're listening to. But on the trail, I'm finding
26:37
Speaker 1: myself just I'm kind of like wrong foot, Like I'm
26:42
Speaker 1: kind of just talking to myself about my running form,
26:44
Speaker 1: which is weird, like sending coaching myself while I run.
26:49
Speaker 1: It's also kind of scary. I don't know if anyone's
26:51
Speaker 1: ever been running an upstate New York. I live right
26:55
Speaker 1: on the Appalachian Trail. I had a close encounter with
26:58
Speaker 1: a bear a few weeks ago, and I haven't run
27:00
Speaker 1: on it since because I literally was like I'm gonna die.
27:04
Speaker 1: It's just now, I'm not down for this. On that run,
27:06
Speaker 1: I saw a porcupine get squashed, I got chased by
27:09
Speaker 1: a dog, there was a snapping turtle, a snake, and
27:12
Speaker 1: then a bear was the final thing, all on like
27:15
Speaker 1: an hour's run. So I got home and asked him,
27:17
Speaker 1: was like, you okay? And I was the color of
27:19
Speaker 1: these chairs and I'm like, no, they're gray for the words,
27:22
Speaker 1: yeah for everyone who's watching yet, pallid gray and not
27:26
Speaker 1: the color you should be after a run. And yeah,
27:30
Speaker 1: I was like, babe, you're not going to believe what
27:34
Speaker 1: I have just encountered on this run, and that was
27:37
Speaker 1: the last run I did on the Appalachian Trail. So
27:42
Speaker 1: for me, I've been driving and I sailed that to
27:45
Speaker 1: say this. I've been driving to Beacon, which is our
27:49
Speaker 1: and a half two hours out of the city in Hudson,
27:52
Speaker 1: New York, which is a beautiful location, has some great elevation,
27:56
Speaker 1: has way less life threatening things. They have a few ticks,
28:00
Speaker 1: not many reports of ticks, which alike in my neighborhood.
28:03
Speaker 3: They're like that are gonna go with you now.
28:06
Speaker 1: And they have no bears. They may have a deer,
28:10
Speaker 1: but they've actually been cute, and that for me has
28:14
Speaker 1: been a better conversation. And I think the courses or
28:16
Speaker 1: levels have been lower because I'm not so afraid that
28:19
Speaker 1: something's going to come out of the woods and get me.
28:24
Speaker 3: But I think.
28:27
Speaker 1: The trail running side of things is like the first
28:30
Speaker 1: few miles when you go straight uphill, it hurts immediately,
28:36
Speaker 1: and from coming from a road running perspective, it takes
28:40
Speaker 1: a good like fifteen miles really for it to start hurting.
28:44
Speaker 2: If you've trained well for a race, there's some people nodding,
28:47
Speaker 2: and then there's some other people being like, for who
28:51
Speaker 2: if you've trained to fifteen mins, yeah, I'm like mile
28:55
Speaker 2: one mile.
28:56
Speaker 1: But you know, like the leg pain, the leg heaviness,
28:59
Speaker 1: like yeah, like end of training for a marathon, block
29:02
Speaker 1: like you shouldn't be feeling soret Then for me on
29:06
Speaker 1: these runs, I'm two miles in and I'm like, what
29:08
Speaker 1: is happening? Why am I so sore? Why is this painful?
29:12
Speaker 1: Why is my heart right through the roof? And so
29:15
Speaker 1: it is those deep conversations of like dig in. It's
29:18
Speaker 1: a very different engine that you have to use to
29:22
Speaker 1: go uphill and downhill as opposed to flat, and it's
29:24
Speaker 1: getting used to that. And yeah, I'm known for having
29:27
Speaker 1: dark conversations with myself and I will never disclose what
29:30
Speaker 1: goes through my head because I probably would be sectioned.
29:34
Speaker 1: But I think a lot of us would be like
29:35
Speaker 1: when we push ourselves to do tough things, we really
29:37
Speaker 1: do dig deep into places that no one else should
29:40
Speaker 1: other than your therapist should hear about. And yeah, bless
29:45
Speaker 1: my therapist. But it's what gets me into that mode
29:52
Speaker 1: of like you can do this, You really can do this,
29:56
Speaker 1: And I love the freedom. I definitely do feel cathartic
29:59
Speaker 1: on that like two hour drive back to the city.
30:03
Speaker 1: But it's like I listen to different music, I listen
30:06
Speaker 1: to a different podcast. It's very like I'm a different
30:09
Speaker 1: person once I've got that run done.
30:11
Speaker 2: And I do like that because that's reclaiming that time
30:13
Speaker 2: for yourself and I love to hear that there is
30:15
Speaker 2: some positive self talk that goes with the darkness.
30:19
Speaker 3: Of course, from time.
30:21
Speaker 2: From time to time, once the gel's hit, yeah, and
30:25
Speaker 2: the fuel hits the muscles and maybe for just a
30:27
Speaker 2: moment they feel a little less sore. Speaking of feeling sore,
30:30
Speaker 2: how are you recovering these days back?
30:33
Speaker 3: So, I mean, again a lot of miles. Recovery more
30:36
Speaker 3: important than ever.
30:37
Speaker 2: And again we had that conversation about age, so it
30:41
Speaker 2: is a different conversation that you're having with your body
30:45
Speaker 2: now versus ten years ago plus when you were again
30:49
Speaker 2: in that Olympic Trials moment.
30:50
Speaker 1: A lot of the Norma tech boots, a lot of
30:53
Speaker 1: naps in the Norma tech boots. That's like, I don't
30:56
Speaker 1: know what those boots do to me, but I'll fall
30:58
Speaker 1: asleep as soon as I get in them.
31:00
Speaker 2: I think it's the brown noise of the machine.
31:03
Speaker 1: Yeah, I actually do put a weighted blanket on top. Two. Yeah,
31:10
Speaker 1: I think that earlier nights, I will say I've been
31:14
Speaker 1: doing a lot less screen time. I got a brick.
31:17
Speaker 1: I think we got Brioks at the same time Christmas
31:19
Speaker 1: last year, and it's been a game changer for me
31:23
Speaker 1: of just when I'm in the city, when I'm out
31:25
Speaker 1: of the city, I'm not bothered about my phone, which
31:28
Speaker 1: any of my friends will have testament to if they
31:30
Speaker 1: try and contact me. And Livia's like, yep, I know
31:33
Speaker 1: if I try and contact you from Friday to Monday,
31:35
Speaker 1: I don't hear from you because I'm just not on
31:38
Speaker 1: my phone. But also television. I've just been making promise
31:43
Speaker 1: to myself to read a book at least every month,
31:46
Speaker 1: and so I've been like taking myself to bed. My
31:48
Speaker 1: partner loves to watch TV. That's just his way of
31:51
Speaker 1: switching off, and that's great, but I'm instead of sitting
31:54
Speaker 1: there with him, like, Okay, I now just go up
31:57
Speaker 1: to bed and I read a book. And I found
31:59
Speaker 1: that really good for my recovery of just winding down
32:02
Speaker 1: before bed. A lot of magnesium might not say.
32:06
Speaker 3: That, nich Fine.
32:09
Speaker 1: A lot of magnesium, yeah, and a lot of acupuncha.
32:12
Speaker 1: I'm a big believer in actpuncha.
32:14
Speaker 2: Can I tell you that I started this sounds so
32:16
Speaker 2: silly as I'm thinking about what I'm about to say.
32:18
Speaker 3: I started reading fiction again this year.
32:20
Speaker 2: I got so tired back of every time I picked
32:24
Speaker 2: up a book, I was made to feel like I
32:27
Speaker 2: wasn't good enough because I was reading a lot of
32:29
Speaker 2: self help, right and personal development, and I loved.
32:33
Speaker 3: The takeaways from the books that I was reading.
32:35
Speaker 2: But I was probably in a groove for I'm not
32:38
Speaker 2: even exaggerating, maybe six years, which coincided with me starting
32:44
Speaker 2: the show and being an entrepreneur and working for myself.
32:47
Speaker 2: And it was cool until I was spent and over
32:52
Speaker 2: the last year and a half, basically as I've given
32:56
Speaker 2: myself this gift of reading fiction again.
32:59
Speaker 3: To talk about a dreamy way to disconnect.
33:02
Speaker 1: It's fantastic. I have so many smutty books if you
33:04
Speaker 1: want to read, Oh I'm in, I'm into that.
33:07
Speaker 2: I am also in and it's just been such a
33:09
Speaker 2: nice escape. And also to your note of walking away
33:12
Speaker 2: from the screen time, I too, like your partner, often
33:16
Speaker 2: love to unplug by watching something on the television, and
33:19
Speaker 2: more often than not, that's something I'm doing before I
33:23
Speaker 2: get to the book and then I get into bed.
33:26
Speaker 2: So I'm really making looking at non screens a regular habit,
33:32
Speaker 2: and I'm seeing it pay off. At least my orr
33:35
Speaker 2: ring is telling you that I'm seeing it pay off
33:38
Speaker 2: when I get into bed.
33:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, your like time to fall asleep is shorter.
33:42
Speaker 2: Oh, I am like I am always kind of like
33:45
Speaker 2: a light like that. Yeah, I had hits the pillow
33:48
Speaker 2: and I'm completely out. But also like you, I'm an
33:51
Speaker 2: early to bed woman.
33:52
Speaker 1: Yes, it's key. It's very key, especially when you get
33:55
Speaker 1: up at like four point thirty in the morning.
33:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, which you and I both have a habit for.
34:01
Speaker 2: With that said, now us thinking about what's next. We
34:05
Speaker 2: talked about that theme of adventure. You have some exciting
34:08
Speaker 2: stuff on the burner right now. Any intel for us.
34:12
Speaker 1: Any intel. I can't tell you execuly what I'm doing
34:15
Speaker 1: because my global ambassadorship with Hoker have that deal. She
34:20
Speaker 1: is very secretive, very secretive. I also it's not just
34:25
Speaker 1: because of Hoger. I don't tend to like giving away
34:30
Speaker 1: what I'm doing. I know rich Roll is a big
34:32
Speaker 1: partner with Ravine, and I am one of his biggest fans.
34:35
Speaker 1: I listen to his podcast probably every day, and he
34:40
Speaker 1: always talks about the fact that when we talk about
34:43
Speaker 1: things that we want to achieve, it actually gives us
34:45
Speaker 1: this dopamine hit, which is very similar to actually having
34:48
Speaker 1: achieved it, and it kind of can if you are
34:50
Speaker 1: a dopamine hit addict, which I think I am, it
34:53
Speaker 1: can kind of take you down a step from actually
34:57
Speaker 1: doing it. And that's why I keep a lot of
35:00
Speaker 1: the things I'm doing close to me because the more
35:03
Speaker 1: conversations I have about it, I don't want to feel
35:05
Speaker 1: like I've done it because people are like, oh my gosh,
35:07
Speaker 1: that's amazing. I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, it is, And
35:09
Speaker 1: i don't have to do it because I've got all
35:11
Speaker 1: the congratulations. So that's a big part of it. But yeah,
35:15
Speaker 1: needs us to say this time next week, I'm going
35:17
Speaker 1: to be really nervous and really scared for my ankles
35:20
Speaker 1: and knees and everything else.
35:39
Speaker 2: How do you calm down before something that you've put
35:42
Speaker 2: in so much effort, training arguably a ton of opportunity
35:47
Speaker 2: cost into How do you find your calm and how
35:50
Speaker 2: do you come back to yourself.
35:52
Speaker 1: This is going to be a big learning curve and
35:54
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a detriment to the
35:56
Speaker 1: trail world. I tend to do it by myself, and
35:59
Speaker 1: Austin hates this because he loves he's such a supportive,
36:04
Speaker 1: encouraging partner. He wants to be there with me and
36:07
Speaker 1: be by my side doing these big events. But I
36:09
Speaker 1: prefer if he wasn't because when he's there, I'm still vulnerable.
36:13
Speaker 1: I'm still like I can cuddle up with him, I
36:16
Speaker 1: can have verbal diarrhea with him, which is how I
36:19
Speaker 1: get when I'm really nervous, and so I prefer to
36:23
Speaker 1: go by myself, and just when I'm by myself, I'm tougher.
36:26
Speaker 1: I'm just like I'm doing this. You can just be
36:29
Speaker 1: by yourself and just shut it down. You don't have
36:31
Speaker 1: to talk to anyone. No one knows you. If they do,
36:35
Speaker 1: they need to respect that you're in a race situation
36:38
Speaker 1: right now. So this next race, we're undecided if he's
36:44
Speaker 1: coming with me. Next week, I'm pushing for no, he's
36:48
Speaker 1: pushing for yes. And then my big race at the
36:51
Speaker 1: end of August, he is one hundred percent coming. And
36:54
Speaker 1: this is the first time Talula's coming with me, which
36:57
Speaker 1: is going to be terrible, like absolutely terrible, because I
37:00
Speaker 1: know I'm just going to be a at like a
37:01
Speaker 1: mess if I finish this race, I'll be a mess
37:04
Speaker 1: because it's something I've jumped to doing for twelve to
37:07
Speaker 1: fifteen years of my life. And knowing my daughters at
37:13
Speaker 1: the finish line like makes me choke up. Now I'll
37:15
Speaker 1: just be like, I'll just be hiding on the corner
37:17
Speaker 1: of the thing. Why is she not a finished? Like
37:19
Speaker 1: you just wait, please put her to bed, then I'll
37:23
Speaker 1: come down.
37:24
Speaker 2: Well A, I love that they're coming in August. What
37:30
Speaker 2: a special moment for you to have your support system
37:35
Speaker 2: see you do something so outstanding.
37:39
Speaker 3: And I can also really.
37:41
Speaker 2: Relate to you on this note of I can feel
37:44
Speaker 2: tough on my own. I in the complete opposite spectrum
37:50
Speaker 2: of running, went through the egg freezing process earlier this year,
37:56
Speaker 2: as we have spoken about many a time, And when
37:59
Speaker 2: I did that, I did so much of the process alone,
38:05
Speaker 2: and it was so interesting to me in retrospect when
38:08
Speaker 2: I think about the retrieval day. I showed up to
38:12
Speaker 2: the clinic by myself. I went in without anyone there,
38:16
Speaker 2: but I knew that when I came out, my mom
38:19
Speaker 2: would be there and she was coming in from Connecticut.
38:21
Speaker 2: It was just the procedure was so early that getting
38:23
Speaker 2: in at that time was unnecessary.
38:26
Speaker 3: And I came out and I was still on my own,
38:28
Speaker 3: and you know, I'm.
38:29
Speaker 2: A little loopy and whatever I'm on And the second
38:33
Speaker 2: I saw my mom, I just had this visceral reaction
38:37
Speaker 2: of for a moment, right now, someone else can carry
38:40
Speaker 2: this exactly. I don't need to pay attention to the
38:43
Speaker 2: doctor in this moment. I don't need to be the
38:46
Speaker 2: person that needs to be strong for one second. Right now,
38:49
Speaker 2: someone else can be strong. And so you saying that
38:54
Speaker 2: there's an and both right there. I totally understand where
38:59
Speaker 2: you're coming from. I totally understand why you might not
39:02
Speaker 2: want them there. And how beautiful is it that your
39:05
Speaker 2: family gets to be there for you exactly exactly.
39:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I'm lucky to be in that situation. We
39:12
Speaker 1: all are when we've got a support network. He was
39:14
Speaker 1: willing to be there for you. It's a blessing. So yeah,
39:19
Speaker 1: we'll see. I'm used to running and crying.
39:21
Speaker 3: It happens a lot, aren't we all. I get it.
39:26
Speaker 3: I've got it.
39:27
Speaker 1: And the good thing is I will not see her
39:28
Speaker 1: on the course there is no way my daughter is
39:31
Speaker 1: going to be hiking up. I say that now, she's
39:36
Speaker 1: pretty crazy, But I don't think I don't want to
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Speaker 1: see her on the course, to be honest, I can't
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Speaker 1: think I can. I've understood that I can handle seeing
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Speaker 1: Austin on the course. And then he's come to one
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Speaker 1: of my other races recently and I was okay seeing
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Speaker 1: him until he surprised me a second time and then
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Speaker 1: I broke down into tears and we're like, just want
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Speaker 1: to stop.
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Speaker 3: Okay. So doesn't want to be surprised ever?
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Speaker 1: No, I do, but I don't. Typical female surprised me
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Speaker 1: all the time. But don't because I need only.
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Speaker 3: Nice trips, a nice hotels. Yes, that's it.
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Speaker 1: Not when you're like thirty miles deep into a race,
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Speaker 1: I really want it over exactly.
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Speaker 3: Hey, all of it again so relatable.
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Speaker 2: So beyond running as you start to wind down, here,
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Speaker 2: tell me what is exciting you right now? What's Beck's
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Speaker 2: doing when she's not on the peloton, she's not on
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Speaker 2: your screen, and she's not on the run.
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Speaker 1: Chasing my daughter around. I have a very rambunctious little
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Speaker 1: girl who is full of personality, and she's me everybody
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Speaker 1: keeps saying she is literally a tiny you, and just
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Speaker 1: being able to watch her grow and form into this
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Speaker 1: human is such a wonderful thing. And I think anybody
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Speaker 1: who has children in their lives, whether they're your children
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Speaker 1: or other other people's children, just seeing them become who
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Speaker 1: they are is such a beautiful process. So that takes
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Speaker 1: a lot of energy just seeing this happen, understanding it. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm becoming a suburban mom, I guess, which is incredibly
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Speaker 1: interesting part of me. I really love that I could
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Speaker 1: leave my house in my car and not have to
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Speaker 1: fight someone for parking spot in Brooklyn. It's the disassociation
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Speaker 1: with the life of having a lot here in this
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Speaker 1: city and understanding that what truly matters are a very
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Speaker 1: few things health, happiness, food, And that's been really really
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Speaker 1: wonderful of just getting up there and being like, oh,
41:41
Speaker 1: this is the same pair of jeans that I've had
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Speaker 1: for six months up here, and then come back to
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Speaker 1: Brooklyn and I'm like, twenty peszigeens. Why do I need
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Speaker 1: that many pezzogeens?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Like what? So I'm excited about our next chapter of
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Speaker 1: being up there all the time, like officially leaving the
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Speaker 1: city full time in a few weeks, fully becoming a
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Speaker 1: suburban mom. I'm excited about why Trail Runnings taking me.
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Speaker 1: I'm excited about seeing how my performance grows as a
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Speaker 1: forty year old mom and professional of like where that
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Speaker 1: goes with Peloton, where it goes personally, because who knows,
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Speaker 1: who knows what's going to happen. But I'm going to
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Speaker 1: keep trying, and I'm going to keep trying to thrive.
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Speaker 2: I smile hear you speaking so fondly about the experiences
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Speaker 2: and the excitement that comes with being a forty year
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Speaker 2: old mom. Can you imagine sitting here ten years ago
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Speaker 2: and saying that sentence, No, Oh.
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Speaker 1: My god, No, absolutely not. I was hugely a non
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Speaker 1: kid person ten years ago. I was like, no, never
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Speaker 1: having kids, not doing that, not for me. I was
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Speaker 1: also married before, to the wrong person, and I think
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Speaker 1: that I had a huge part of it. I didn't
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Speaker 1: want kids because I wasn't with the right person to
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Speaker 1: take me down that path. And yeah, it's kind of
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Speaker 1: crazy to think. Literally ten years ago, I was a
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Speaker 1: whole different, whole different. I was on the precipice of
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Speaker 1: getting off at a job at Peloton. Yeah, this time
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Speaker 1: ten years ago.
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Speaker 2: It all happens for you right yeah, yeah, before I
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Speaker 2: let you go today, Becks, you have an opportunity to
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Speaker 2: offer yourself maybe that piece of advice looking back on
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Speaker 2: you ten years ago, with this understanding of the importance
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Speaker 2: of grace, this understanding and appreciation for exactly where you
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Speaker 2: are right now, you have an opportunity to tell her
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Speaker 2: something in this moment.
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Speaker 3: What do you tell her?
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Speaker 1: What do I tell her? There's so many things like
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Speaker 1: we would be here all night me chat. Yeah, that's
43:49
Speaker 1: your old Begs was wild. I would say, don't be
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Speaker 1: over confident, but don't understan yourself. Be my best piece
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Speaker 1: of advice.
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Speaker 3: That's it, Beks Gentry.
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Speaker 2: Always a pleasure to sit down with you, and so
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Speaker 2: happy again to be here with you at Rivian. Thank
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Speaker 2: you so much for your time. For those that aren't
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Speaker 2: following along with you just yet, how do they find you?
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Speaker 3: How do they keep up with you?
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Speaker 1: If they can try, you can head up to Instagram
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Speaker 1: It's at bechs Gentry, or you can find me on Peloton.
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Speaker 2: On Peloton, I'm over at Emiabadi and at Hurdle Podcast.
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Speaker 2: As I say on the show, another Hurdle Conquered. Catch
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Speaker 2: you guys next time. Thank you so much, thank you