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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: On Withdrawing From the Marathon & Acceptance · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Hey everyone, emilya body here for another installment of five
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  Speaker 1: Minute Friday from Hurdle. This week it will be five
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  Speaker 1: minute Friday. It will not be twenty minute Friday. It
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  Speaker 1: is so crazy, like how much can happen within a week? Right,
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  Speaker 1: So to catch you up to speed. Last Friday for
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  Speaker 1: the episode, I came out and talked to you all
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  Speaker 1: about navigating a little bit of injury. And a week later,
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  Speaker 1: a lot has changed some of it, most of it,
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  Speaker 1: I would say for the better, although not all of
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  Speaker 1: these decisions were easy. So I withdrew my entry from
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  Speaker 1: the London Marathon. I got that entry through New Balance
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  Speaker 1: and one of my biggest fears in withdrawing this jury
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  Speaker 1: is that the London Marathon is notoriously really difficult to
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  Speaker 1: get into. I was really sad thinking about the fact
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  Speaker 1: that this injury may have cost me, like my one
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  Speaker 1: shot at running this race. The good news I talked
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  Speaker 1: to my friends at New Balance. It seems as though
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  Speaker 1: I will be able to run again run it period
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  Speaker 1: next year, so at least there's that. But I withdrew
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  Speaker 1: my entry and about an hour later I was on
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  Speaker 1: the phone with Lisa from Delta looking into flights to moan,
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  Speaker 1: and I cried with Lisa from Delta bless her and
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  Speaker 1: had to cough up a little bit more money, but
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  Speaker 1: was able to tack on a little bit of Italy
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  Speaker 1: to my now upcoming euro trips. So I'm heading to
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  Speaker 1: Italy next week midweek. I will be there until the
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  Speaker 1: following Tuesday. Then I hop from Italy to Paris, and
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  Speaker 1: then I hop from Paris to Chicago, where on Saturday morning,
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  Speaker 1: quick Plug, I'll be hosting a live hurdle with my
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  Speaker 1: friends at Tracksmith at the Chicago Athletic Association at nine am.
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  Speaker 1: So I will I'll put a link in the show
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  Speaker 1: notes for you to learn more information on that. If
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  Speaker 1: you happen to either be frending Chicago or just in
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  Speaker 1: the area and want to come, say what up? I
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  Speaker 1: would love, love, love blah love to meet you irl.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, So that's the first development, right, complete shift
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  Speaker 1: in my plans. London is officially called off. As I
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  Speaker 1: was saying in last week's episode, I'll bite emotionally, I
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  Speaker 1: felt very sure of myself and my gut in following
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  Speaker 1: my gut and making this decision, and despite making progress
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  Speaker 1: with my body, and I'll talk about that in just
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  Speaker 1: a second. I still feel that way. Italy is a
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  Speaker 1: very special place for me. I've talked about on the
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  Speaker 1: show before, but a few years back I went on
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  Speaker 1: my first solo trip there for ten days, mostly to Florence.
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  Speaker 1: And being able to book that trip again right now
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  Speaker 1: feels very.
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  Speaker 2: Special and I'm really looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 1: So with that said, if you have any Milan must
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  Speaker 1: try dinner recks, I'll be there for one night and
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty well versed in Florence, but definitely also taking
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  Speaker 1: Paris recommendations as well. Now update on my body. So
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  Speaker 1: I started this journey crying at physical therapy about a
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  Speaker 1: week after the pain started to kick in and didn't
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  Speaker 1: go away and running hurt. And that day at physical therapy,
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  Speaker 1: my PT gave me a bunch of exercises that I
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  Speaker 1: should start doing two to three times a day. I
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  Speaker 1: have been doing those exercises two to three times a day,
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  Speaker 1: and as of Tuesday, when I went back to PT,
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  Speaker 1: the great news is that the strength is really starting
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  Speaker 1: to kick in and a lot of these exercises which
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  Speaker 1: felt truly difficult before, are getting easier. Running in general
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  Speaker 1: no longer really hurts now, it just feels like I
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  Speaker 1: have like a really tight muscle in my lower abdomen
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  Speaker 1: so as hip region, but it doesn't hurt.
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  Speaker 2: Still.
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  Speaker 1: The benchmarker we're at is keeping things low intensity, no
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  Speaker 1: more than like a two or three out of a ten.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not running for more than about thirty minutes at
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  Speaker 1: a time right now, and just working on healing and
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  Speaker 1: giving my body the time it needs to be better.
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  Speaker 1: I do want to tell you about that first run
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  Speaker 1: back because I had this really beautiful moment of appreciation
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  Speaker 1: and could draw a comparison about what so many of
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  Speaker 1: us have been navigating this past year. I was running,
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  Speaker 1: and I was, you know, walk running and then jogging,
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  Speaker 1: and I wasn't doing much. But in that moment, the
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to move in this way, having not moved in
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  Speaker 1: that way for a couple of weeks, felt truly rewarding
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  Speaker 1: and just so exciting. I was so grateful for it,
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  Speaker 1: and it reminded me of the pandemic right in that
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  Speaker 1: the pandemic came and as soon as we were allowed,
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  Speaker 1: especially in New York, to meet up with friends and
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  Speaker 1: go out to eat, it didn't matter that it was
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  Speaker 1: twelve degrees out and freezing and I had to wear
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  Speaker 1: like six different jackets. Right, I was so excited to
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  Speaker 1: freeze my ass off to spend time with other humans
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  Speaker 1: after not being able to do that irl for so
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  Speaker 1: long because of the parameters of what was going on
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  Speaker 1: in our world. And I laughed to myself as I
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  Speaker 1: was grabbing my iced coffee when I was done with
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  Speaker 1: this run, because it's so true, right, like these unexpected
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  Speaker 1: hurdles that happened in our lives, they often give us
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  Speaker 1: a second to take a step back and find those
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  Speaker 1: simple joys, to focus again on the appreciation and we
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  Speaker 1: have for the little things.
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  Speaker 2: And I feel.
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  Speaker 1: So grateful for my body, despite of course being a
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  Speaker 1: little frustrated at the circumstance, knowing that I, because of
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  Speaker 1: the choices that I have made, will be able to
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  Speaker 1: get back in the saddle and with time it will
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  Speaker 1: be there for me. My prompt for you this week
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  Speaker 1: what is something in your life that you really appreciate
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  Speaker 1: right now? Again, what is something in your life that
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  Speaker 1: you really appreciate right now? And now for a listener question.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Emily, this is Becky from Vain. I've been a
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  Speaker 3: longtime hurdler and I just wanted to let you know
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  Speaker 3: how incredibly inspiring you are to me and the rest
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  Speaker 3: of the Hurle community. It doesn't go on notice the
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  Speaker 3: energy that it takes for you to do all of
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  Speaker 3: the things that you do for us, whether it's content
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  Speaker 3: to the podcast, your Instagram is. It's just so inspiring
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  Speaker 3: and we are so very grateful for you. I do
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  Speaker 3: have a question. I'm traveling to my first half marathon
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  Speaker 3: in January. I'm traveling from Maine to Florida. I'll be
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  Speaker 3: flying flying in the day before. What are your tips
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  Speaker 3: and tricks for nutrition and hydration and all of the
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  Speaker 3: things that we do to prepare for a big race
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  Speaker 3: or a big long run. I take the preparation before
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  Speaker 3: every long run very seriously, and this is the thing
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  Speaker 3: I'm most nervous about. So anything you got for me,
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  Speaker 3: I'll take it. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, this is a good one.
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  Speaker 1: So I have traveled a few times to run different
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  Speaker 1: races from seaweeds with Lululemon. I ran the Dublin Marathon.
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  Speaker 1: I was planning to travel to run the London Marathon, obviously.
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  Speaker 2: Boston, etc.
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  Speaker 1: And in doing this, I travel with some of the
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  Speaker 1: things that I know that I'm going to want to consume.
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  Speaker 2: But I also plan ahead.
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  Speaker 1: So, for instance, pre race nutrition, it starts the week before,
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  Speaker 1: making sure that you are really eating whole foods, you're
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  Speaker 1: staying very hydrated, you have enough adequate electrolyte intake, but
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  Speaker 1: also thinking about that night before. Right, so I months
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  Speaker 1: in advance, start to do some recon to plan and
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  Speaker 1: figure out exactly where I want to be eating dinner.
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  Speaker 1: I look at the menu. I'm a big like pasta
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  Speaker 1: with a protein person. Make sure it has good reviews
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  Speaker 1: and snager reservation. So that's step one. Step two is
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  Speaker 1: thinking about what you want to eat in the morning
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  Speaker 1: before you race. Now, a nutritionist will conventionally tell you
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  Speaker 1: that that pre race meal should be happening at least
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  Speaker 1: ninety minutes to two hours before you run. My go
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  Speaker 1: to pre race, especially for a marathon, is a full
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  Speaker 1: peanut butter and jelly sandwich, even better if it's toasted.
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  Speaker 1: So I will travel with the I think SI Jiffy
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  Speaker 1: crunchy peanut butter packs and jelly packets, and I'll buy
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  Speaker 1: these at like Target, and I'll even sometimes travel with
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  Speaker 1: the bread, or I'll make sure that I can buy
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  Speaker 1: the bread wherever that I'm going. But I want to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that I have these things at my disposal.
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  Speaker 1: Also having on hand at a hotel room like water
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  Speaker 1: and again those electrolytes really important to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: you have everything that you could want at your disposal. Also,
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  Speaker 1: of course, I mean I'm a big like go out
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  Speaker 1: after the race, celebrate, drink a bunch of beers, eat
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  Speaker 1: a burger kind of person. But if there is something
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  Speaker 1: that you lean into every single time when you are
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  Speaker 1: done with this kind of effort, bring that along with
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  Speaker 1: you too. There is no harm in it. So nutrition wise,
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  Speaker 1: prep smart, think about where you're going to eat before,
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  Speaker 1: what you want to eat the morning of, and also
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  Speaker 1: don't forget to think about your recovery. Right. So, like
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  Speaker 1: I said, food's an important piece of that puzzle. But
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  Speaker 1: if you can travel with your hyper rice or your
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  Speaker 1: theragun or whatever you may use typically after your run
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  Speaker 1: to give your muscles a little bit of love. I
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  Speaker 1: got a question in my DMS yesterday which was can
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  Speaker 1: I travel with my hyper volet The answer is yes,
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  Speaker 1: two Hurdler. One last thing, I do want to say
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  Speaker 1: this and echo it again. I'm so grateful for the
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  Speaker 1: feedback after last week's twenty minute Friday. I know firsthand,
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  Speaker 1: as it is very apparent that many of you do,
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  Speaker 1: how difficult navigating injury can be as well as.
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  Speaker 2: You know navigating identity.
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  Speaker 1: And I want you to know and here that I
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  Speaker 1: see you, I hear you, and we don't have to
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  Speaker 1: go through these hurdles alone.
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  Speaker 2: Another hurdle conquered. Catch you guys next time.