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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: My Season Of 'Yes' · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Emily and Vadi. Here you are listening to
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  Speaker 1: five Minute Friday on Hurdle. I am recording this in
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  Speaker 1: my not so typical studio space, sitting inside of one
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  Speaker 1: of my dearest friends homes in Rhode Island, and I
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  Speaker 1: drove up here earlier today, just went a long weekend,
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  Speaker 1: finally meeting her soon to be three month old baby,
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  Speaker 1: and relaxing a bit as I sit here staring outside
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  Speaker 1: of two massive French doors, thinking that this looks nothing
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  Speaker 1: like my apartment anyway. Something that I want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about today is saying yes, I've been trying to do
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  Speaker 1: that a lot more lately. I am sure some of
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  Speaker 1: you can relate to this. It's really easy for me
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  Speaker 1: to get comfortable in my groove when I'm at home
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  Speaker 1: of working, doing my runs, going to sporadical lotate these classes,
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  Speaker 1: seeing some of my close friends, but mostly keeping a
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  Speaker 1: lot to myself, and in between work travel, being here
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  Speaker 1: and there in Rhode Island and next week Oregon, I
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  Speaker 1: said to myself that I wanted to make a priority
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  Speaker 1: of getting out a little bit more, of experiencing my
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  Speaker 1: surroundings more. Summer in New York is one of my
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  Speaker 1: favorite times, and I have been spending it hold up
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  Speaker 1: in my apartment, not really allowing myself the freedom, the
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  Speaker 1: space to try new things. And so lately when someone
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  Speaker 1: has been asking me, do you want to do this?
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  Speaker 1: Do you want to go to dinner? Do you want
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  Speaker 1: to go to the beach? Do you want to go
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  Speaker 1: to this random rooftop party in Bushwick? My answer has
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  Speaker 1: been yes, and it's been paying off. I've been having fun.
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  Speaker 1: I've been dancing for hours on end. I have been
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  Speaker 1: letting my hair down and it feels good. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like this episode is a reminder for me that it's
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  Speaker 1: okay to step outside of routine. It doesn't mean that
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  Speaker 1: you're going to negate your progress or go back to
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  Speaker 1: square one, and that there can be time for all
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  Speaker 1: of it if you only give yourself a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of grace and you're flexible in your methods. So my
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  Speaker 1: prompt for you this week, I'm coming to you from
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  Speaker 1: a place of yes. What's one thing that you should
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  Speaker 1: try saying yes to. What's one thing that you want
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  Speaker 1: to get outside and do one thing that might be
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  Speaker 1: outside of your comfort zone that could be just what
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  Speaker 1: you need to be in a better place. And now
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  Speaker 1: a listener question.
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  Speaker 2: Family Like you, I am an avid traveler, but I
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  Speaker 2: always like to learn from my fellow world warriors on
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  Speaker 2: how they most optimize their time away from home. Can
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  Speaker 2: you share a little bit about what some of your
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  Speaker 2: must haves are when you're traveling, what bags you like
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  Speaker 2: to use, things you like to bring along, and how
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  Speaker 2: do you maintain a routine to stay with your nutrition
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  Speaker 2: and fitness goals.
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  Speaker 1: Hey Jamie, good question traveling. I love to do it.
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  Speaker 1: I love to do it even more when it's not
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  Speaker 1: for work. But I definitely have my travel go tos
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  Speaker 1: on lock, so you ask me what my bags are currently,
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  Speaker 1: I travel within a way bigger sized carry on which
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  Speaker 1: fits in the overhead, which I feel like is something
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  Speaker 1: that you need to know when you buy it. So
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  Speaker 1: they have like the smaller carry on and then they
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  Speaker 1: have the bigger size carry on and the bigger size
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  Speaker 1: carry on works, so I use that one. I used
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  Speaker 1: to have a black one. Let me recommend that if
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  Speaker 1: you're interested in getting in a way bag, maybe consider
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  Speaker 1: getting a different colored one because I find it so
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  Speaker 1: much easy easier to know which away bag is my
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  Speaker 1: away bag because I have a maroon colored one. I
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  Speaker 1: literally used to open up the overhead bin and there
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  Speaker 1: would be like twelve block away bags. So this way,
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  Speaker 1: just for a little piece of mind, go color. You
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  Speaker 1: won't regret it. My carry on, my small personal item
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  Speaker 1: now is a Digny dover bag. I use the larger
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  Speaker 1: land and carryall most often, but I actually recently bought
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  Speaker 1: what I think is their diaper bag. I bought it
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  Speaker 1: because I liked that it was rectangular in shape, so
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  Speaker 1: it sits really nicely on top of my away suitcase.
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  Speaker 1: So not only does it fit nicely on top, but
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  Speaker 1: it also has that little sleeve that goes around the handles,
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  Speaker 1: so when I'm kind of speeding through the airport, it
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  Speaker 1: is just the perfect combo. And of course it fits
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  Speaker 1: very nicely under the seat. When it comes to your
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  Speaker 1: question about keeping my routine on the road, for me,
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  Speaker 1: I always make sure two things. The first thing is
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  Speaker 1: is I know what I want, hopefully in my workout
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  Speaker 1: schedule to be so to speak, before I go. So
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  Speaker 1: during marathon training season it can be a little bit different,
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  Speaker 1: and that I'll have a certain amount of mileage that
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  Speaker 1: I'll want to tackle. I'll be cognizant of that. When
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  Speaker 1: it comes to booking, my travel plans, if my travel
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  Speaker 1: plans are within my own power to book. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: also recognizing that a few days away from whatever my
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  Speaker 1: regular quote unquote routine is is not the end of
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  Speaker 1: the world. So yeah, the first thing is knowing what
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  Speaker 1: I'm aiming to do each day, and also doing a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of research ahead of time, so I know
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  Speaker 1: where I can go running if that's what's on the agenda.
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  Speaker 1: The second thing I'll say is that it is okay
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  Speaker 1: to deviate from the plan while you are traveling. It happens,
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  Speaker 1: It happens to all of us, and your fitness will
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  Speaker 1: still be there when you get home. So just because
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  Speaker 1: you may not be doing what you're used to I e.
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  Speaker 1: I gave that example of marathon training, that doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: that you can't find other ways to stay active while
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  Speaker 1: you are on the road. What's that look like. That
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  Speaker 1: could look like doing some sort of a walking tour.
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  Speaker 1: It could look like doing a bike tour, like walking
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  Speaker 1: to dinner instead of taking a car. There are so
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  Speaker 1: many different options. But again, your best friend here, plan
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  Speaker 1: ahead and you will be so so happy that you did.
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  Speaker 1: That's it for this week. Make sure you're following along
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  Speaker 1: with hurdle over on social welts at Hurdle podcast, I
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  Speaker 1: am over at Emily a Body, another hurdle conquered. Catch
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  Speaker 1: you guys next time.