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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: Karma Always Comes Back Around · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Emily Abadi here. You are listening to five
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  Speaker 1: minute Friday from Hurdle. That is exactly how I feel
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  Speaker 1: right now. I'm sitting in a hotel room. Why is
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  Speaker 1: every episode that I record lately, That's how it starts.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in Berlin and in gosh, forty eight hours from
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  Speaker 1: when you hear this episode. If you're listening to it.
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  Speaker 1: On Friday, I will run my twelfth marathon. And for
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  Speaker 1: those of you that aren't runners and aren't here for.
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  Speaker 2: This journey, I apologize.
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  Speaker 1: But this journey has been rich and it's been a
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  Speaker 1: big deal for me, especially coming back from so much
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  Speaker 1: injury and so so I am just feeling really grateful
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  Speaker 1: and really happy and really content. And if you subscribe
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  Speaker 1: to the weekly Hurdle newsletter, I wrote a bit about
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  Speaker 1: that in today's installment, so get on that. The link
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  Speaker 1: to do that if you don't just yet subscribe is
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  Speaker 1: in the show notes. Today, though, I want to talk
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  Speaker 1: to you about what happened at the airport. I've been
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  Speaker 1: in my fair share of airports over the last few days,
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  Speaker 1: and on the way here, I was coming from Bologna
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  Speaker 1: in Italy. I went there for work for a couple
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  Speaker 1: of days before making my way over to Germany. And
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  Speaker 1: this is the first trip in my life that I
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  Speaker 1: have ever brought both a checked suitcase and a carry
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  Speaker 1: on suitcase as well as a personal item. I've never
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  Speaker 1: brought two suitcases. But I'm traveling until next Saturday and
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  Speaker 1: going to be in some different climates temperatures.
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  Speaker 2: It just needed to happen that way.
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  Speaker 1: And so, needless to say, when I was organizing everything
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  Speaker 1: going from point A to point B, I forgot that
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  Speaker 1: I put one of my larger sized items in my
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  Speaker 1: carry on that was technically too big to be in
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  Speaker 1: my carry on. So I'm talking about the try slide.
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  Speaker 1: Tryslide is like a spray you can liken it to
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  Speaker 1: like body glide, and it's been my go to. I'ly
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  Speaker 1: get in the show notes for anything anti chaf, so
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  Speaker 1: I've used bodyglide, but the try slide it just feels easier.
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  Speaker 1: It's like putting on spray SPF. It's my go to,
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  Speaker 1: and I had packed it in my carry on two case.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm going through the TSA. I don't even know
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  Speaker 1: if they call it TSA over here, but I'm going
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  Speaker 1: through the security and this woman at first tells me
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  Speaker 1: to take my liquids out of my carry on. I
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  Speaker 1: forgot that they were in there. I go back, I
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  Speaker 1: take my liquids out of my carry on. They go
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  Speaker 1: through the screening thing and rather than pick up like
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  Speaker 1: the clear bag that has all of my stuff in it,
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  Speaker 1: I see her reach four the try slide that I'd
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  Speaker 1: put in the bin next to my toiletries bag. And
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even think twice when I did this. And
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  Speaker 1: so I look at her and she looks at me,
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  Speaker 1: and she holds this up and she says what is this?
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, it's anti CHAF spray, And she said,
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  Speaker 1: what's it for? And I said, I'm going to run
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  Speaker 1: a marathon. It's so that my thighs don't rub together.
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  Speaker 1: And mind you, like, there's a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: language barrier here. She's speaking English to me, but I
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  Speaker 1: would assume that a word like chaf might be a
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  Speaker 1: little weird. Anyway, she instinctively goes to me, it's too big.
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  Speaker 1: And you know that emoji where the eyes are really
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  Speaker 1: big and it looks like the emoji is going to
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  Speaker 1: cry Like that was me irl standing in that security moment,
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  Speaker 1: and I just looked at her, and in my head,
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  Speaker 1: I am thinking this is my go to I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to get.
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  Speaker 2: Rid of this right now, I'm running a marathon. Oh
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  Speaker 2: my god.
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  Speaker 1: And she looks at me and she says, tell me,
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  Speaker 1: this is medical. And I look at her basically I've
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  Speaker 1: turned into a robot. And I nod my head and
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  Speaker 1: I say this is medical. And she nods her head
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  Speaker 1: at me, and she walks over to some other machine
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  Speaker 1: and grabs one of those little wipe things and wipes
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  Speaker 1: it down and waits for the machine to tell her
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  Speaker 1: good to go, comes back to me, hands me the
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  Speaker 1: bottle and says run good. And I just felt in
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  Speaker 1: that moment like it was such a karma. It was
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  Speaker 1: a full circle. Be a good person, do good things,
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  Speaker 1: good will come back to you. I don't encourage rule breaking,
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  Speaker 1: but in this moment, I am so grateful that she
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  Speaker 1: just blessed.
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  Speaker 2: Me and enabled me to move on. And uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: karma is a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: And so as I'm out here, there are tons of tourists,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot going on, people are stressed that might
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  Speaker 1: be around me, And all I will promise to do
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  Speaker 1: is just be as good of a person as I
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  Speaker 1: possibly can, because someone was looking out for me, and
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  Speaker 1: it's my turn to look out for somebody else. My
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  Speaker 1: prompt for you going into the weekend is not really
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  Speaker 1: a prompt at all. Maybe it's just a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of encouragement to have a little grace with someone else
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  Speaker 1: that you come across, knowing that you never know what
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  Speaker 1: they're going through. That woman had no idea where my
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  Speaker 1: head was at in that moment. I mean, she knew
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  Speaker 1: that I was going to run a marathon, or maybe
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  Speaker 1: she didn't actually understand what I was telling her, but
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  Speaker 1: she chose to have compassion with me, and I encourage
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  Speaker 1: you to choose compassion and grace with someone else that
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  Speaker 1: you come across this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: And now a listener question. Hi, Emily, this is Alex
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  Speaker 2: calling in from Brooklyn. How do you prepare differently for
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  Speaker 2: a marathon when you're traveling internationally? Oh, this is a
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  Speaker 2: good one.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I feel like you know again, I'm sorry it's
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  Speaker 1: been run heavy on the content lately, but how can
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  Speaker 1: you blame me?
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  Speaker 2: This is what's going on in my life at this
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  Speaker 2: very moment.
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  Speaker 1: So traveling for a marathon, I would say the things
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  Speaker 1: that are different about traveling the marathon really just entail
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more preparation. When I travel for a marathon.
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  Speaker 1: There are things that I need to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: I bring with me. So it's really important to make
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  Speaker 1: a solid packing list. Things that are on my packing
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  Speaker 1: list now that maybe have not been previously because now
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  Speaker 1: I have more experience. I bring my own jiff to
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  Speaker 1: go travel peanut butter. I found that, like I don't
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  Speaker 1: love the peanut butter always that I'm finding when I'm
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  Speaker 1: on the go. I also carry with me my go
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  Speaker 1: tos which is AG one Element salt packets, as well
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  Speaker 1: as the U Can Edge. And then I really really
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  Speaker 1: really would one hundred percent recommend do not this is
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  Speaker 1: you must do this carry on your marathon items. So
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  Speaker 1: that means that in my carry on suitcase, which I
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  Speaker 1: accidentally put the body glide into, I also brought the
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  Speaker 1: sneakers I'm running in on Sunday, the shorts I'm running
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  Speaker 1: in on Sunday, the socks, the shirt, the sports ra
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  Speaker 1: the sunglasses, all the things that I would have been
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  Speaker 1: beside myself if had been lost in the luggage that
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  Speaker 1: I checked. The last thing that I would highly recommend
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  Speaker 1: if you are checking a bag and have anxiety like
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  Speaker 1: I do is get an air tag. This air tag
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  Speaker 1: and being able to see where my suitcase is slash
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  Speaker 1: was when I'm on the move is truly such a
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  Speaker 1: sanity saver and I cannot recommend that enough. And okay,
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  Speaker 1: I said that was kind of the last thing, but
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  Speaker 1: really the last thing also is you will not regret
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  Speaker 1: bringing a massive water bottle with you. I drank at
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  Speaker 1: least five bottles of water on my eight hour flight abroad.
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  Speaker 1: And you want to make sure that you're hydrating because
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  Speaker 1: being up in the air traveling, it is super easy
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  Speaker 1: to get dehydrated, which is also why that element comes
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  Speaker 1: in the clutch.
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  Speaker 2: Hydration is important. You got to take care of yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Because you didn't come this far to only come this far, right,
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  Speaker 1: I think I think that's it for now. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be back next week. I will, and I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to do good and it's just another hurdle that I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to conquer. That's it for now. With that another
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  Speaker 1: hurdle conquered, Catch you guys next time. Follow along over
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  Speaker 1: on social I'll see you there.