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#HURDLEMOMENT: Your Biggest Listener Questions, Answered · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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Speaker 1: Like, Hey, Hurdler's Emily a body come in here with
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Speaker 1: another installment of Hurdle Moment from Hurdle this week, ending
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Speaker 1: out season three with a Listener Questions episode featuring voice
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Speaker 1: notes from all of you. This was really really fun
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Speaker 1: to make. It's definitely something that I'm going to do
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Speaker 1: again for sure. If at any point you ever have
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Speaker 1: a question that you want to submit for possible inclusion
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Speaker 1: on the show, simply record a voice note and then
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Speaker 1: send it to me over email. It's Emily at Hurdle
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Speaker 1: dot us. In today's episode of Listener Questions, I'm covering
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Speaker 1: everything from how I've coped with injury in the past,
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Speaker 1: how I quote unquote got fast, how I started making
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Speaker 1: money as a freelancer and what that looked like, and.
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Speaker 2: So much more.
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Speaker 1: Huge thanks to all the hurdlers that submitted questions that
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Speaker 1: are featured in today's episode.
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Speaker 2: I am so.
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Speaker 1: Grateful and again, I'd love to keep doing this stuff,
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Speaker 1: So send me your cues, connect with me on social
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Speaker 1: at Emila Badi at Hurdle Podcast. Last little bit of
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Speaker 1: housekeeping before we get into it, you've yet to sign
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Speaker 1: up for the weekly Hurdle newsletter. I would love for
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Speaker 1: you to join in the fun, head on over to
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Speaker 1: the show notes and click the link to subscribe today.
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Speaker 2: And with that, let's get to hurdling.
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Speaker 3: Hey, Emily, it's Olivia. So we know the beginning of
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Speaker 3: your running story and we know where you are now,
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Speaker 3: and you're a pretty experienced runner and you're pretty damn fast,
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Speaker 3: which is awesome. But what happened in between? Like how
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Speaker 3: long did it take you to run your first race
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Speaker 3: and to improve those times? Is this a multi year
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Speaker 3: journey or did all kind of take off really fast?
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Speaker 1: Great question. I started running, just in general, back in
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Speaker 1: two thousand and eight ish in college, and I talk
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Speaker 1: a lot about this time in my life in episode one,
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Speaker 1: so if you have yet to listen to that, I
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Speaker 1: definitely encourage you to dial it back. But I started
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Speaker 1: running in around two thousand and eight, and it wasn't
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Speaker 1: until twenty thirteen that I ran my first full marathon.
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Speaker 1: That was in Hartford. I ran it in four three nineteen,
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Speaker 1: and I was ecstatic. To be honest, I don't remember
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Speaker 1: much about that marathon, but I remember a lot about
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Speaker 1: my first New York marathon, which was in twenty fourteen,
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Speaker 1: when I ran three fifty one twenty one. I never, ever,
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Speaker 1: in my wildest dreams, thought that I would be a
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Speaker 1: sub four hour marathon or and I just remember so
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Speaker 1: much about the magic of that day and.
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Speaker 2: Just how great it was.
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Speaker 1: Between twenty fourteen and twenty nineteen when I landed my
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Speaker 1: newest pr of three twenty eighth eight for a full marathon,
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Speaker 1: I ran a good amount of races, including of course,
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Speaker 1: everything from miles to five k's to ten k's to
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Speaker 1: full marathons. My slowest quote unquote marathon is four fourteen,
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Speaker 1: and my fastest again is that Chicago three twenty eighth
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Speaker 1: eight last year. If you haven't listened to the Chicago recap,
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Speaker 1: another plug for that, definitely encourage you to give that
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Speaker 1: a listen. But as you can see, I mean I
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Speaker 1: recapped here a wide date range twenty thirteen to twenty nineteen,
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Speaker 1: I didn't quote unquote get fast overnight. In fact, it
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Speaker 1: took me a really long time. And to be honest
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Speaker 1: with you, when it came to know any sort of
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Speaker 1: time goal or anything, I didn't run races, so to speak,
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Speaker 1: really with a time goal in mind until maybe the
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Speaker 1: last two years. I mean, for me, running has just
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Speaker 1: always been something that's brought me so much joy, and
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Speaker 1: I really every single time I sign up for a race,
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Speaker 1: enjoy the process, enjoy the journey. And so it wasn't
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Speaker 1: until I would say, early twenty eighteen that I started
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Speaker 1: running to try to quote unquote find my fast And
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Speaker 1: it's interesting actually because that coincides with the beginning of Hurdle,
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Speaker 1: that coincides with a lot of stuff that was going
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Speaker 1: on in my personal life, and I really dialed into
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Speaker 1: running to.
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Speaker 2: Help cope with a lot of that tough stuff.
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Speaker 1: And so whereas before the act of running had felt
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Speaker 1: like enough, and trust me, there are still days that
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Speaker 1: it does feel like enough just to get up, get out,
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Speaker 1: it feels.
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Speaker 2: It feels good.
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Speaker 1: But I just I started to get to a place
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Speaker 1: where I was ready to push for more. And I
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Speaker 1: do really think that you have to be at that place.
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Speaker 1: There is no reason why running just for running sake
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Speaker 1: isn't enough. You don't need to be slaying quick quote
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Speaker 1: unquote runs to be a runner. Everyone is a runner
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Speaker 1: in their own right. And for me, for so many years,
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Speaker 1: for you know, five ish years, I just ran because
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Speaker 1: I enjoyed running. And now I still do that, but
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Speaker 1: I've kind of upped the antsy a little bit for myself,
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Speaker 1: which has helped me mix things up and find new
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Speaker 1: enjoyment in the sport that I love. So getting fast
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Speaker 1: quote unquote didn't happen overnight. And one last tibit I
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Speaker 1: will say on this is in order to get fast,
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Speaker 1: as I've said before, you need to run fast. You
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Speaker 1: need to consciously add quote unquote faster intervals, faster runs
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Speaker 1: into your training. It's not going to be like one
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Speaker 1: day you just start bringing down your pace miraculously from
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Speaker 1: ten minute miles to nine minute miles. No, there's going
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Speaker 1: to be some threshold work in there. There's going to
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Speaker 1: be some tempo work, some interval running and all.
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Speaker 2: That good stuff.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, at least a six seven year journey for
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Speaker 1: me to to really pick up the pace. But I'm
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Speaker 1: definitely at the point right now where I'm feeling really
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Speaker 1: strong and really really excited for what's to come.
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Speaker 4: Hey Emily, my name's Anna and I'm from Oklahoma. I
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Speaker 4: love the podcast, love to follow you on Instagram, love
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Speaker 4: your whole deal, and I just wanted to kind of
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Speaker 4: get some comments from you. I too, am in my
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Speaker 4: early thirties. I feel like my career is going really well.
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Speaker 4: Running's going really well even in twenty twenty, but then
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Speaker 4: there's still this like I need to meet someone, I
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Speaker 4: need to get married, I need to have a kid soon.
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Speaker 4: How are you kind of knowing that pressure or do
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Speaker 4: you have any advice for someone facing this circumstance, especially
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Speaker 4: in a year where we're supposed to avoid people generally. Anyway,
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Speaker 4: I'd love to hear anything you have to say on
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Speaker 4: the topic, and I appreciate everything you do.
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Speaker 5: Thanks.
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Speaker 6: Man.
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Speaker 2: Do I feel this, Listen? I get it.
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Speaker 1: I am a thirty two year old woman living alone
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Speaker 1: in New York City. I am single. I am not
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Speaker 1: dating anyone in particular right now, and it can be
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Speaker 1: really frustrating, especially if you don't feel comfortable in who
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Speaker 1: it is that you are and what you have to offer.
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Speaker 1: And I think that that's really my biggest advice on
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Speaker 1: this topic.
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Speaker 2: For me.
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Speaker 1: For a long time, I let those external pressures get
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Speaker 1: to me, and a lot of the time I allowed
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Speaker 1: myself to feel as though I was doing something wrong
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Speaker 1: because maybe I wasn't as focused on my personal life
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Speaker 1: as I was on my business or my community or
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Speaker 1: my work or what have you. At the end of
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Speaker 1: the day, right now I can confidently sit here in
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Speaker 1: my apartment and tell you that I feel so good
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Speaker 1: about who I am and what I have to offer
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Speaker 1: that the external feedback it doesn't get to me as
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Speaker 1: much anymore because I know that when and not if,
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Speaker 1: when I find this person, I am going to be
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Speaker 1: so ready for it, like so ready and so sure
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Speaker 1: of who I am and what I have to offer,
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Speaker 1: and trust me, like I get it. I hate it
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Speaker 1: and I love you, mom, if you're listening to this,
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Speaker 1: but I hate it when my mom asks me if
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Speaker 1: I'm seeing anyone, and a lot of the time it's
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Speaker 1: like I don't even want to talk about this because
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Speaker 1: even if there might be someone in the mix, if
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Speaker 1: I can't, if I don't know that this person is
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Speaker 1: the person, and I'm just like not at a point
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Speaker 1: in my life where I even want to mention it
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Speaker 1: to my family. And so if you can really, if
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Speaker 1: you too feel as though at times like something is
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Speaker 1: wrong with you because you are not you know, ring
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Speaker 1: on left hand, ready to walk down the aisle, Nothing
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Speaker 1: is wrong with you. Keep doing what you're doing, keep
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Speaker 1: your head up, and believe with your whole heart that
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Speaker 1: at the right time, with the right person, it's going
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Speaker 1: to happen.
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Speaker 4: I am gearing up to run my first marathon, and
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Speaker 4: I'd love to know how you recommend approaching the week
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Speaker 4: leaning up to the virtual race.
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Speaker 1: Congratulations, this is such an exciting accomplishment. Just because you
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Speaker 1: are not towing a race starting line like you would
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Speaker 1: normally doesn't mean that you shouldn't be preparing the same
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Speaker 1: way to undergo this on your own in a virtual way.
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Speaker 1: That means making sure that fueling and hydration is king
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Speaker 1: this week, having whole foods, really making time and an effort,
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Speaker 1: a concerted effort, intaking a lot of water, getting to
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Speaker 1: bed early, prioritizing recovery. If you have access to things
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Speaker 1: like foam rollers or a thera gun or something like
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Speaker 1: Norma tech boots, giving yourself time and grace to use
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Speaker 1: these tools as you feel necessary. Also making sure to
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Speaker 1: stretch and all that good stuff as for the day
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Speaker 1: before the night before going into it, having a great
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Speaker 1: meal on deck, and really setting aside everything that you
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Speaker 1: can so the morning of your effort, the morning of
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Speaker 1: your big race doesn't need to be unnecessarily stressful. Now
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Speaker 1: is your time to trust the training, trust the process,
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Speaker 1: and know that you have all of the tools you
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Speaker 1: need at your disposal to show up and do good.
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Speaker 2: Go get them. Hey, Emily, this is Christian. My question
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Speaker 2: would be what would you look for in a business partner?
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Speaker 1: What an interesting question because I've never entirely thought to
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Speaker 1: myself like I am so ready for a business partner,
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Speaker 1: although I'm sure by now I can certainly I can
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Speaker 1: definitely use a little bit of help anyway a business partner.
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Speaker 1: I am a firm believer that you need to surround
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Speaker 1: yourself with people that challenge you to be better and
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Speaker 1: someone that's better at things than you. So my ideal
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Speaker 1: business partner would be someone that has talents that I
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Speaker 1: do not, someone that I can constantly learn from, and
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Speaker 1: in addition, someone that inspires me to be a better
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Speaker 1: version of myself by both encouraging me celebrating my wins
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Speaker 3: I know the morning lace up is a huge part
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Speaker 3: of your morning run routine, but I also notice that
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Speaker 3: you do that at like six thirty in the morning
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Speaker 3: or like seven thirty. Just super early props to you.
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Speaker 3: I'm wondering what happens beyond behind the scenes before that.
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Speaker 3: Are you stretching, pham rolling, having coffee and breakfast? And
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Speaker 3: if you have breakfast, like what is it? Or are
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Speaker 3: you just the kind of girl who like gets up,
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Speaker 3: laces up and gets out the door.
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Speaker 1: Morning routine wake up most days naturally unless it's Track Tuesday,
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Speaker 1: when I set an alarm, although sometimes I get up
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Speaker 1: without it at the right time. Anyway, I wake up,
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Speaker 1: I use the bathroom, I leave the bathroom, I make
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Speaker 1: my bed. Right after I make my bed, I pull
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Speaker 1: out my journal from my night table and I spend
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Speaker 1: about five minutes writing that, talking about the past twenty
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Speaker 1: four hours. I end each journal entry with a positive
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Speaker 1: moment from the last day. Then I start to get
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Speaker 1: my act together. What that means is I walk over
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Speaker 1: to mine espresso. I make an arondio, which is like
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Speaker 1: a little bit bigger than a shot of espresso. I
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Speaker 1: don't have the exacercising mass FOD, but it's like a
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Speaker 1: small cup that bruise. While I put on a sports
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Speaker 1: bra and whatever other clothing I want to be wearing
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Speaker 1: for my morning workout, I go over there I pick
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Speaker 1: up my Rondio, I walk back into my bedroom. I
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Speaker 1: reach for my Journey to the Heart book. I'll link
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Speaker 1: to that in the show notes, where I read the
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Speaker 1: day's passage and then I sip on this while I
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Speaker 1: do any other small things around the apartment. I also
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Speaker 1: at this time, that's when I do some sort of
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Speaker 1: stretching and kind of warm up work. A lot of
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Speaker 1: times for me in the apartment, that's using something like
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Speaker 1: a thera gun or a film roller. Also some different
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Speaker 1: activation exercises that I've done to strengthen my hips, so
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Speaker 1: that could involve a little bit of kettlebell work or something.
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Speaker 2: With a band.
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Speaker 1: After all that is done, then I walk on over
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Speaker 1: to my pillow. As many of you know well, and
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Speaker 1: that's the first time I pick up my phone in
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Speaker 1: the morning is to go and do the lace up.
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Speaker 1: I do the lace up, I post it to Instagram,
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Speaker 1: and usually I'm literally posting my lace up to Instagram
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Speaker 1: as I'm walking down the four flights of stairs and
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Speaker 1: outside of my apartment.
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Speaker 2: I go for my run, I do my workout.
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Speaker 1: I come back and that's when I hit all of
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Speaker 1: my good things that I look forward to you in
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Speaker 1: the morning. That's when I make my four sigmatic coffee.
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Speaker 1: That's when I shake up my athletic greens. This is
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Speaker 1: when if I haven't yet listened to the Daily, That's
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Speaker 1: when the Daily is playing in my apartment and just
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Speaker 1: really getting my day together so I can really set
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Speaker 1: myself up for the best situation possible. When it comes
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Speaker 1: to breakfast, every day is a little bit different. Lately,
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Speaker 1: I've been on a kick of either having a daily
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Speaker 1: harvest smooth or making avocado toast or making my favorite
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Speaker 1: favorite favorite post run breakfast, which is oatmeal the steel
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Speaker 1: cut oats from Trader Joe's with scoob of peanut butter,
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Speaker 1: a scoopa, jelly and banana, and that's my morning.
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Speaker 7: Hey, Emily, this is Alsa Gunther sending a message from Rochester,
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Speaker 7: New York. I'm wondering if you can talk about how
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Speaker 7: long it took once you started freelancing to become profitable
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Speaker 7: and how you go about identifying additional streams of income.
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Speaker 2: Thanks so much, interesting question.
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Speaker 1: So I would say that I was profitable, I mean
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Speaker 1: right away when it came to freelancing. From the get go,
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Speaker 1: I made a list of all my monthly expenses and
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Speaker 1: knew exactly how much money I had to quote unquote
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Speaker 1: go find to make sure that I could upkeep my lifestyle.
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Speaker 1: Never did I allow myself to get to a place
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Speaker 1: where I would be in the red and instead just
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Speaker 1: really put my head down and ran after as many
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Speaker 1: opportunities as possible. So if I knew, say, for instance,
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Speaker 1: if someone knows that they need to make five hundred
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Speaker 1: dollars in a month, obviously I live in New York City,
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Speaker 1: I need to make much more.
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Speaker 2: Money than that.
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Speaker 1: But if I knew I had to make five hundred
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Speaker 1: dollars in a month, there was nothing that was going
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Speaker 1: to stop me from pitching and going after ideas and
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Speaker 1: reaching out to people and making contact and just trying
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Speaker 1: my hardest to get to that place when it comes
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Speaker 1: to finding alternative sources of income. I mean, I've just
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Speaker 1: kind of been making my own way here, I feel like,
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Speaker 1: especially with Hurdle, it's definitely been a lean startup method
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Speaker 1: for a long time, trying different experiments to see things
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Speaker 1: that work, things that hit, things that don't hit. Especially
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Speaker 1: now with the Hurdle sessions, it's an all new way
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Speaker 1: for me to make revenue and also you know, do
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Speaker 1: some good and donate to charity and that's something that
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Speaker 1: means a lot to me. So when it comes to
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Speaker 1: how I identify alternative sources of revenue, really it's just
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Speaker 1: homing in on my skill set and thinking to myself,
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Speaker 1: what can I do with what I'm good at. Of course,
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Speaker 1: I love connecting with people, so the hurdle sessions are
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Speaker 1: a really great way to do that. Also, over time,
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Speaker 1: as I am a podcast host, hosting events and collaborating
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Speaker 1: with brands felt like a really natural and easy way
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Speaker 1: for me to make more income. So again, take a
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Speaker 1: step back, look at what your skill set is, ask
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Speaker 1: yourself how can I monetize my talents? And then my
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Speaker 1: best piece of advice after you have that kind of
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Speaker 1: session of identifying what that might be is reach out
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Speaker 1: to the people that are doing the thing that you
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Speaker 1: think that you might be able to do and ask
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Speaker 1: them about it. Ask them if you could just have
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Speaker 1: five or ten minutes of their time. Go into that
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Speaker 1: time period with specific questions so that you can get
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Speaker 1: the most out of this time. Be gracious with the
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Speaker 1: fact that they may be willing to offer you their time,
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Speaker 1: and then learn, implement and see what happens from there.
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Speaker 5: All right, here's a question. So I admire your consistent
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Speaker 5: workout routine and I would like to develop that for myself.
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Speaker 5: But I feel like every time I do it every day,
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Speaker 5: I wind up either too sore or too tired. So
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Speaker 5: how to develop that and how long did it take?
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Speaker 5: What's some pointers?
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Speaker 1: I would say that I have been a pretty consistent
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Speaker 1: morning exerciser for the last four or five years of
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Speaker 1: living in New York, definitely since I've lived on my own,
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Speaker 1: and I've made it a priority. If you are not
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Speaker 1: willing to make your morning workout routine a priority, it
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Speaker 1: will not happen. You have to want to be a
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Speaker 1: morning exerciser to make it happen. Also, on this note,
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Speaker 1: I mean when it comes to consistency, eliminating the things
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Speaker 1: that could be standing in your way from a barrier perspective.
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Speaker 1: So if you are like, oh, I hate picking out
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Speaker 1: my clothes in the morning, then you pick them out
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Speaker 1: the night before. If you're like, oh, I can't move
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Speaker 1: without my coffee, making your morning coffee as easy as possible,
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Speaker 1: maybe get something to assist in that, like an espresso,
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Speaker 1: which does it for you that you don't even need to,
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Speaker 1: like put your coffee beans in anything if you want
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Speaker 1: to make the excuse that you don't like activity A
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Speaker 1: or activity B. If you don't like doing yoga, then
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Speaker 1: try running. If you don't like running, then try dance cardio.
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Speaker 1: If you don't like dance cardio, then get a kettlebell.
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Speaker 1: I mean, there are so many options when it comes
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Speaker 1: to your mornim workout routine and to stick with it.
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Speaker 1: I would also suggest diversifying your training right. So, yes,
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Speaker 1: I love running, but I also try to add other
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Speaker 1: activities into the mix that encourage me to try something new.
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Speaker 2: This morning, I did yoga.
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Speaker 1: On Tuesdays, I go to the track on Wednesdays, I'll
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Speaker 1: do some sort of a like base mileage run. On Thursdays,
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Speaker 1: I do a tempo run. Friday, I try to bike.
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Speaker 1: On Saturday, I'll do a long run. On Sunday, I'll
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Speaker 1: take a rest day. So, as you can see in
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Speaker 1: this kind of me spitting out what I'm doing during
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Speaker 1: any given week, there's a lot of variety in it,
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Speaker 1: and that variety keeps me interested. And when all else fails,
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Speaker 1: think about how you feel once that activity is done.
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Speaker 1: For me, I know how good it feels to start
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Speaker 1: my day off by moving my body. I know that
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Speaker 1: I am more productive throughout the day, I feel more
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Speaker 1: like myself, and I just feel more capable. So on
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Speaker 1: those days that I may not want to get out
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Speaker 1: of bed, I ground myself by thinking about how it
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Speaker 1: feels once the effort is complete, and that truly is
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Speaker 1: what gets me out the door every single time. One
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Speaker 1: last tidbit I do want to touch on. I know
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Speaker 1: you mentioned getting sore. It is super important to make
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Speaker 1: sure that you are listening to your body, that you
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Speaker 1: are giving it the attention that it needs, making time
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Speaker 1: for recovery things like normal tech boots, foam rolling, faira.
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Speaker 2: Gunning baths.
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Speaker 1: All of this is part of my regular routine and
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Speaker 1: sometimes it's the stuff that you're not seeing on social media.
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Speaker 1: So make time to take care of you and you
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Speaker 1: will be more prepared to wake up and get after
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Speaker 1: it as you please.
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Speaker 6: Hi, Emily, Over the years, I've seen you fight back
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Speaker 6: from running injuries, and each time it seems like you
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Speaker 6: come back faster and stronger than before. I was wondering
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Speaker 6: if you could talk about how you've dealt with the
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Speaker 6: emotional side of running injuries. Have you staying motivated while
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Speaker 6: you've been injured and if you ever felt like just
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Speaker 6: giving up on running while you couldn't run.
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Speaker 1: Thanks on the injury note. If you haven't listened to
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Speaker 1: Emily Enfeld's episode of Hurdle yet, I highly highly encourage
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Speaker 1: you to go check it out. It's episode one thirty one.
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Speaker 2: Listen.
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Speaker 1: I have definitely definitely been on the injured list, and
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Speaker 1: I think for me on the mental side of things,
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Speaker 1: what helps me cope is being really appreciative for how
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Speaker 1: far I've come and understanding that whatever injury I might
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Speaker 1: be going through at any given time, there is opportunity
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Speaker 1: and options within that. Earlier this year, when I was
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Speaker 1: navigating some hip wonkiness, I took to walking and I
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Speaker 1: actually wrote about this for Runners World, and the beauty
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Speaker 1: that I found in that opportunity and the time that
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Speaker 1: I felt like I was able to reclaim for myself
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Speaker 1: even if I wasn't getting out in the way that
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Speaker 1: I was used to. Right now, I have a black
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Speaker 1: and blue toe. Just one day of like me deciding
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Speaker 1: that I shouldn't go out for a run was enough
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Speaker 1: to remind me of what it's like to truly be
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Speaker 1: on the bench and be on that injured list. And
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Speaker 1: I had to have a moment this morning with myself
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Speaker 1: where I checked myself. I felt myself being really frustrated
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Speaker 1: that I wasn't going through my normal motions and going
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Speaker 1: through my normal routine. And I sat down and I
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Speaker 1: grabbed my journal and I made a list of fifteen things,
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Speaker 1: fifteen that I am grateful for. It's not easy to
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Speaker 1: grab hold of that perspective. It's not easy to stay
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Speaker 1: positive when things aren't going as you'd hoped, or you'd planned,
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Speaker 1: or you'd wish that they would be. But the reality
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Speaker 1: is is that we have the choice to figure out
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Speaker 1: how we want to manage and deal with our thoughts.
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Speaker 1: And our thoughts do not necessarily dictate our feelings. We
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Speaker 1: have control over our feelings. So this morning, during my frustration,
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Speaker 1: I checked myself, I grabbed back hold of control, and
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Speaker 1: I decided to find the gratitude and the positivity instead
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Speaker 1: of dwell on the thing that I cannot control. If
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Speaker 1: we focus on the things that we cannot change, that
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Speaker 1: does not serve us period. So what did I have
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Speaker 1: control of? I control of how I felt, I control
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Speaker 1: of my next move. And so instead of sitting there
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Speaker 1: and moping, I did a peloton yoga class and then
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Speaker 1: I biked and got coffee at my favorite coffee shop.
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Speaker 1: None of that bothered my toe. Everything was okay, and
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Speaker 1: I felt better for doing both of those activities, even
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Speaker 1: if neither of them was my go to. Again, I
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Speaker 1: know that being on the injured list sucks. It sucks hard,
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Speaker 1: but there are things that you can do at any
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Speaker 1: given time, although it might not be how you wish
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Speaker 1: things would be, to get through it and be better
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Speaker 1: for it. If you are listening to this and that
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Speaker 1: really resonated with you, I definitely encourage you to check
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Speaker 1: out one of the Handling Hurdle Moments Hurdle sessions.
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Speaker 2: I'm hosting one in October seventh.
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Speaker 1: It's a huge part of what we talk about in
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Speaker 1: there is learning how to show up to challenge and
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Speaker 1: emerge on the other side and more positive person. This
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Speaker 1: was really fun. Thank you all so much again for
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Speaker 1: just being a part of my community. I appreciate you
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Speaker 1: in ways that I cannot always articulate, and I just
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Speaker 1: feel really grateful at Emily Body at Hurdle Podcast.
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Speaker 2: Another Hurdle Conquered. Catch y'all next time.