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#HURDLEMOMENT: Advice That Will Get You Through Your Next 'Bad' Run · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Do you like running? In the last few weeks, have
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  Speaker 1: you questioned why you like running? Listen? You are not alone.
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  Speaker 1: Emily about it. Here with another installment of Hurdle.
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  Speaker 2: Moment from Hurdle, a podcast that talks to everyone from
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  Speaker 2: entrepreneurs to top CEOs and athletes about how they've gotten
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  Speaker 2: through tough times hurdles of sports by leaning into wellness.
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  Speaker 1: By now, y'all know that I am a big runner.
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  Speaker 2: I've got seven marathons under my belt, I'm a certified
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  Speaker 2: run coach, and I can confidently say that I used
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  Speaker 2: to hate running. For more on that, go ahead and
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  Speaker 2: listen to episode one of Hurdle, or I give you
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of my backstory before I get into
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  Speaker 2: today's episode, the first of four throughout September, which we'll
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  Speaker 2: focus on running gearing up toward a lot of those
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  Speaker 2: fall marathons. A quick shout out to my sponsor, we'lla
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  Speaker 2: me talk a bunch of out Way of Life Athletic Company,
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  Speaker 2: their founding team, the events we've teamed up to throw,
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  Speaker 2: one of which is tomorrow night, heading out from Charlie
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  Speaker 2: Street at six thirty pm in New York City.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they're also about to launch their first two in
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  Speaker 1: one for your phone, the other for your keys or
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  Speaker 1: your cash, or your cards or your gels or whatever
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  Speaker 1: else you're gonna need on that run.
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  Speaker 2: I know this is something that they've been working on
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  Speaker 2: for a long time. So if you're in the market
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  Speaker 2: for the right two and one shore I know I
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  Speaker 2: love my self repair, be on the lookout for when
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  Speaker 2: you can sign up for this drop by following at
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  Speaker 2: Wallago Women. That's Wolaco Woman on Instagram. And hopefully I'll
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  Speaker 2: see you guys tomorrow night, September fifth, at Charlie Street.
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  Speaker 2: Now let's get back to talking all things running.
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  Speaker 1: Throughout the month.
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  Speaker 2: As I mentioned, I'll be collaborating with a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: fun experts to talk about everything injury to what you
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  Speaker 2: should be eating, and mindset and more. And today I'm
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  Speaker 2: homing in a little bit on that mindset thing. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to talk about today what keeps me going when
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I just don't want to go any
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  Speaker 2: farther and trust me, it happens a lot.
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  Speaker 1: You know. It's not like every day I wake up,
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  Speaker 1: I tie my shoes, I get out there, and things
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  Speaker 1: go absolutely seamlessly. In fact, most days, within the first
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  Speaker 1: five minutes I think about turning home. In the next
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  Speaker 1: ten minutes, I'm still thinking about going home.
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  Speaker 2: And finally, maybe somewhere around minute twenty six, I decide, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: you're probably more.
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  Speaker 1: Than halfway there now, so you might as well just
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  Speaker 1: stick it out. If this sounds like something you can
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  Speaker 1: totally relate to, then stay tuned and keep listening on
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  Speaker 1: this week, next.
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  Speaker 2: Week, the week after that, the week after that. You
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  Speaker 2: guys have been asking me for this stuff, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: just here trying to make everyone as happy as a
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  Speaker 2: hurdle podcaster. Can you know the drill at Emily Abadi
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  Speaker 2: at Hurdle Podcast. If you need me or have anything
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  Speaker 2: specific you want to hear about when it comes to
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  Speaker 2: running or anything else, feel free to email me. It's
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  Speaker 2: Emily at hurdle dot us. And with that, let's get
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  Speaker 2: to hurdling. Fun fact, I coached spin for a while
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  Speaker 2: here in New York at a place called Swerve.
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  Speaker 1: I absolutely loved it.
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  Speaker 2: I remember coaching my last class and crying during one
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  Speaker 2: of those songs where I dimmed.
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  Speaker 1: The lights in the studio to really bring up the mood.
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  Speaker 2: I walked up the stairs and a good friend of
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  Speaker 2: mine he walked up behind me and said, I wish
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  Speaker 2: I could just listen to the words of motivation that
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  Speaker 2: you were giving me in that classroom every single day
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  Speaker 2: when I'm walking to the office.
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  Speaker 1: It's been something that stuck with me. Everyone everywhere they
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  Speaker 1: have a unique perspective to share and the opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: impact others. It's definitely scary and super vulnerable, and it's
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  Speaker 1: the experience that I'm here doing on the regular here
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  Speaker 1: on hurdle. But what I've come to learn is that
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  Speaker 1: this is such an unbelievable chance for me to share
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  Speaker 1: with you what works for me. Now, I'm not telling you.
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  Speaker 2: That the mantras or the strategies or the little things
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  Speaker 2: I tell myself when the goaling gets tough will one
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  Speaker 2: hundred percent help you to get over the hurdles that
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  Speaker 2: you're facing. But maybe it will, and then maybe, hey,
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  Speaker 2: it's worth it, so let's talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: You're out there for a bad run. For me, I
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  Speaker 1: had a really bad one three weeks ago. It was
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  Speaker 1: in the height of summer, the height of my marathon training.
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  Speaker 1: It as hot as hell, even worse humanity, and I
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  Speaker 1: felt like I just wasn't good at running anymore. You've
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  Speaker 1: been there, right, And that's hard, right, especially when you
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  Speaker 1: identify as a runner. It's hard to feel like you're
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  Speaker 1: not good at your sport. It's hard to feel unsure.
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  Speaker 1: It's the same way you feel when you're on the
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  Speaker 1: injured list, when.
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  Speaker 2: You can't run every day, And because you associate yourself
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  Speaker 2: as a runner, it makes to question what you're even
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  Speaker 2: doing anyway, that moment that you feel like everything is awful,
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  Speaker 2: that moment where you don't want to be out there anymore,
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  Speaker 2: there are things that you can do to keep going. Granted,
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  Speaker 2: you're still going to have junkie runs, it's part of
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  Speaker 2: the process. But trust me, maybe these few strategies will
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  Speaker 2: make the less sucky one suck a little bit less.
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  Speaker 2: The first thing I do every single time, remember why
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  Speaker 2: I started. For me, running has never been just super easy.
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  Speaker 2: It really feels that way today. But there was a
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  Speaker 2: time when I could barely run a half a mile, nevertheless,
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  Speaker 2: a five k and I couldn't even have dreamed of
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  Speaker 2: signing up for a marathon. When I think about why
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  Speaker 2: I started these days, I think about the girl who
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  Speaker 2: had hopes to become a better version of herself, to
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  Speaker 2: lose some weight, and just to be a healthier, happier human.
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  Speaker 2: I remember those runs back then. They were really awful
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  Speaker 2: two thousand and seven, uncomfortable in my own body. I
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  Speaker 2: remember that it felt like it was impossible to move
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  Speaker 2: my weight. I felt like the pounds would never come off,
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  Speaker 2: and I wondered why I was even trying in the
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  Speaker 2: first place. But then I think about now. I think
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  Speaker 2: about how many times I've stuck with running, how many
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  Speaker 2: times I've chosen running instead of so many other negative options.
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  Speaker 1: I think about the times.
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  Speaker 2: That I leaned into running to get through hard things
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  Speaker 2: like breakups and getting ghosted and not getting the job,
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  Speaker 2: or an apartment hunt gone completely wrong. I remember the
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  Speaker 2: girl then versus this girl now, and I choose this
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  Speaker 2: woman every single time. The next thing I do when
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  Speaker 2: it gets hard, I break the run up into small,
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  Speaker 2: little doables. Now, this is something that can work in
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  Speaker 2: every single aspect of your life. It goes back to
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  Speaker 2: the thing I talk about very often here, setting smart
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  Speaker 2: goals specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time bound. When you
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  Speaker 2: set smart goals, there are these things that you've got
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  Speaker 2: to accomplish, these things that are small, incremental progress points
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  Speaker 2: that get you to the bigger picture, that get you
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  Speaker 2: to where you want to be. When I'm going out
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  Speaker 2: for a run that's ten, twelve, maybe more miles, it
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  Speaker 2: can feel overwhelming. Heck, I go out on four mile
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  Speaker 2: runs that feel absolutely impossible. In those situations, I think
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  Speaker 2: about the smaller things. I think about segmenting it to
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  Speaker 2: feel attainable. So say, if it's just a four mile run, right,
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  Speaker 2: you're out there, you've been at it for maybe three minutes.
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  Speaker 2: In those first three minutes, maybe the run feels like everest.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe in the fourth minute that's when I tell myself, okay,
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  Speaker 2: at one mile, you put on this hype up song.
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  Speaker 2: At two miles, well that means that after when you're done,
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  Speaker 2: you get to splurge for the espresso in your cabinet.
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  Speaker 1: At three miles, you're almost in the home stretch. And
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  Speaker 1: when you cross what's that four mile threshold, Well, trust me,
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  Speaker 1: I bet you won't be thinking about how you felt
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  Speaker 1: at the three minute mark. Anymore. Little doables, little goals.
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  Speaker 1: They make all of the difference, and it's so important
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  Speaker 1: to recognize the small wins along the way. It's so
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  Speaker 1: important to be proud of yourself for not just accomplishing
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  Speaker 1: the big goal, but for staying true to yourself during
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  Speaker 1: the journey. The next thing I do when things get tough,
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  Speaker 1: I go to mantras. There's so much research about the
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  Speaker 1: power of mantras, and I can't say it enough to
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  Speaker 1: you guys. They are literally the thing that gets me
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  Speaker 1: through when things feel really, really hard. After thinking about
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  Speaker 1: why I started, after breaking it into small, little doables,
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  Speaker 1: I did a whole Hurdle Moment episode about mantras, So
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  Speaker 1: definitely go back. I believe it's called these few words
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  Speaker 1: can change your life. My go to mantras are you
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  Speaker 1: can and you didn't come this far to only come
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  Speaker 1: this far. I literally repeat it to myself every single
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  Speaker 1: time I feel like I'm just hitting the wall over
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  Speaker 1: and over. You can, you can? You can? You can
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  Speaker 1: over and over during some of the hardest miles. It's
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  Speaker 1: just a reminder that I am literally capable of whatever
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  Speaker 1: I set my mind to. So do me a favor
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  Speaker 1: right now, wherever you are, maybe not if you're running,
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  Speaker 1: but close your eyes. And if you can't close your eyes,
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  Speaker 1: then maybe just soften your gaze and look down, just
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  Speaker 1: for a second. I want you to feel your feet
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  Speaker 1: on the ground, and if you can, put your hand
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  Speaker 1: on your chest so that you can feel your heart beating.
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  Speaker 1: That heartbeat. It's a reminder that you're alive. It's a
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  Speaker 1: reminder that you have the opportunity to use the fire
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  Speaker 1: inside of you to go after whatever it is that
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  Speaker 1: you want. Remember, when the run gets tough, when life
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  Speaker 1: gets tough, you have the power to push through anything
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  Speaker 1: at any time, in any way. Go ahead, open your eyes,
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  Speaker 1: look around you, and understand that the hard stuff, this
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  Speaker 1: effort right now, this everest feeling, it won't last forever.
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  Speaker 1: And trust me when I tell you that the hard
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  Speaker 1: stuff happens to us each and every day to teach
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  Speaker 1: us how to get through it, to teach us how
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  Speaker 1: to be tough enough to handle it moving forward. The
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  Speaker 1: hard stuff makes us better. The good runs, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they're great too. All of it makes us who we are.
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  Speaker 1: All of it reminds us that we are capable. So
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  Speaker 1: back to mantras. Trust me, if you don't have one.
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  Speaker 1: It's time to figure out what speaks to you. You
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  Speaker 1: can do a Google search. It's easy. Googling mantras isn't cheating.
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  Speaker 1: But when you find one, find one that speaks to you.
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  Speaker 1: Find one that makes you feel empowered, makes you feel
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  Speaker 1: like you can conquer because you can and understand it's
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  Speaker 1: there for you to fall back on when things just
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  Speaker 1: don't feel easy. And that's it. Those are my three strategies,
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  Speaker 1: my three mental tricks to get through the hard stuff.
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  Speaker 1: To keep on pushing when you want to quit. Understand this,
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  Speaker 1: especially if you're running a fall marathon. Now is the
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  Speaker 1: time when things feel really tough. I get it. And
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  Speaker 1: if you're wondering, if it's just you, trust me, it's not.
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  Speaker 2: You're not alone, and you are going to get through
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  Speaker 2: this and you're going to be great.
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  Speaker 1: Keep your head up hurdlers.
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  Speaker 2: As always at Emily Body at Hurdle Podcast Another hurdle Conquered.
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  Speaker 1: Catch you guys later,