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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: Stepping Into a New Chapter · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, Emily Abadi here you are listening to five
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  Speaker 1: Minute Friday from Hurdle, and Wow, can you even believe
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  Speaker 1: that it's about to be June on Monday? I feel
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  Speaker 1: like it was just June yesterday. My birthday is at
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of June, and I this is the first
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  Speaker 1: birthday as I get older that I feel some kind
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  Speaker 1: of way, if I'm being honest, And I believe that's
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  Speaker 1: large in part because of what Tuesday's episode is about.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sitting down with my obig im that I worked
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  Speaker 1: with my doctor from my egg freezing, and we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about the entire process. Large in part because I got
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  Speaker 1: so many messages and emails asking questions and input and whatnot.
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  Speaker 1: So I decided to record with her, and that process
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  Speaker 1: made me do a lot of reflecting. I like to
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  Speaker 1: think that I reflect regularly. I do try to journal
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  Speaker 1: regularly and just be honest with myself about how I'm
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  Speaker 1: feeling and where I'm at. But this process highlighted what
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  Speaker 1: is in my life and what is not in my life,
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  Speaker 1: and how I feel about getting older and all other
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  Speaker 1: things considered, aside from the fact that I'm without a
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  Speaker 1: life partner and still undecided if I want to have children.
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  Speaker 2: Life is really freaking fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: I am doing so many things right now that I
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  Speaker 1: am so grateful for. I'm having experiences and traveling around
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  Speaker 1: the world doing what I love, and having really impactful
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  Speaker 1: and special conversations, and I'm doing things that are truly
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  Speaker 1: beyond my dreams at the moment. And with that said,
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  Speaker 1: it just it's it's kind of crazy. I can't believe
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  Speaker 1: I am about to say the sentence that I am
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  Speaker 1: about to be thirty eight years old. I don't feel
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  Speaker 1: thirty eight years old. And there's so much more I
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  Speaker 1: want to do, and so a lot of my plans
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  Speaker 1: for this upcoming weekend include some reflecting, some journaling, some inventory.
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  Speaker 1: I wrote a newsletter a couple of weeks ago about
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  Speaker 1: this annual summit that I do with myself and I
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  Speaker 1: do it every year around this time, and gave some
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  Speaker 1: tips and tricks for how to go about doing that.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're not yet subscribed to the Weekly Hurdle
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  Speaker 1: over on my substack, I'll link it in the show
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  Speaker 1: notes and check that out. Because I find that this
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  Speaker 1: summit of sorts is truly something that helps me come
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  Speaker 1: back to myself really get honest about where I'm at
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  Speaker 1: and be intentional about where I want to go moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: I would say that that is probably one of the
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  Speaker 1: biggest lessons that I've really stepped into over the last
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  Speaker 1: few years, the importance of being honest with myself, the
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  Speaker 1: importance of allowing myself to feel and not judging those feelings,
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  Speaker 1: because that act of feeling, the empowerment that comes with that,
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  Speaker 1: the recognition that comes with that, it is so so important.
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  Speaker 1: And so I'm feeling, I'm analyzing, I'm taking stuck, I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing all the things as we move into year thirty eight,
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  Speaker 1: and wow.
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  Speaker 2: It is wild. June.
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  Speaker 1: Here we are for my thought prompt for you this week.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to bring a question from that substack post
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  Speaker 1: here to the podcast. One of the questions that I
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  Speaker 1: ask myself during this personal inventory is what's going well
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  Speaker 1: right now and what's not going well again? I'll repeat that,
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  Speaker 1: what is going well in your life right now and
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  Speaker 1: what is not going well again?
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to be down there. I have so
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  Speaker 2: much to celebrate.
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  Speaker 1: I feel so good, But I think that I would
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  Speaker 1: be remiss if I didn't say that this is really
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  Speaker 1: the first time in a while that I'm just like, Wow,
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  Speaker 1: we are really we're growing up and it's kind of wild.
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  Speaker 2: And now a listener question.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Emily, I know you have answered many shoe questions
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  Speaker 1: in the past, and I'm hoping for your guidance. I
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  Speaker 1: was recently experiencing some foot issues and switched running shoes
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  Speaker 1: to the New Balance ten eighty, which I am loving.
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  Speaker 1: I'm exploring speedwork and a race day shoe. Can you
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  Speaker 1: help explain the difference between something like the Rebel fuel
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  Speaker 1: Cell or the super Comp Trainer.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Shannon.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, first and foremotion, and I want to say
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  Speaker 1: good on you for knowing that different sneakers could be
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  Speaker 1: used for different types of movement. Now, the New Balance
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  Speaker 1: ten eighty is a classic neutral shoe. It's great for
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  Speaker 1: everything from base mileage too if you want to pick
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  Speaker 1: up the pace too, even if you want to run
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  Speaker 1: a full marathon. But there are different sneakers that if
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  Speaker 1: you have the bandwidth and the mean, you can have
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  Speaker 1: in your rotation to do different things. So a shoe
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  Speaker 1: like the fuel Cell Rebel, it's got a foam mid
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  Speaker 1: sole and it does not have a carbon fiber plate,
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  Speaker 1: but it's super light, weight. So what this is good
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  Speaker 1: for is picking up the pace. Now, when we talk
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  Speaker 1: about a shoe like the New Balanced SuperComp Trainer, this
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  Speaker 1: might be I guess you can call.
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  Speaker 2: It a legal cheat code if you want to.
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  Speaker 1: It's got a massive stack of balancy foam and it's
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  Speaker 1: also paired with a carbon fiber plate sandwich into the middle.
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  Speaker 1: So what that means is that a carbon plate acts
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  Speaker 1: like a spring and when you land your foot then
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  Speaker 1: flattens the plate. When you push off, the plate snaps back,
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  Speaker 1: literally propelling you forward. Now this sounds really exciting and
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  Speaker 1: can help you be speedy, but I want to recommend
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  Speaker 1: advise that you use a carbon plated shoe sporadically.
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  Speaker 2: You want to make sure that you're taking care of
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  Speaker 2: your foot.
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  Speaker 1: So while something like a neutral sneaker in this case
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  Speaker 1: in your rotation, the New Balance ten eighty is something
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  Speaker 1: that is for regular daily mileage. The SuperComp Trainer could
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  Speaker 1: be something that you're leaning into for race day, maybe
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  Speaker 1: for trying on your long runs, and also for picking
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  Speaker 1: up the pace. I hope that this helps and answers
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  Speaker 1: your question, and if you have any other sneaker questions,
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  Speaker 1: I'm all ears to reiterate plated shoes use sporadically. I
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  Speaker 1: race in a plated shoe very regularly at this point
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  Speaker 1: when I'm looking to get speedy with it, but for
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  Speaker 1: my regular mileage for my everyday run, I'm leaning into
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  Speaker 1: classic neutral options. The New Balance ten eighty is a
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  Speaker 1: great one. I'm big on the Niki Vamerow. I'm big
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  Speaker 1: on the Alan cloud Monster. I love a Brooks Ghost,
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  Speaker 1: So lots of options, lots of different tastes for every person.
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  Speaker 1: another hurd all conquered. Catch you guys next time.
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