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#HURDLEMOMENT: How To Deal With Injury · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Is anybody else just really tired. It's like, I feel
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  Speaker 1: like August is supposed to be this month where we're
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  Speaker 1: all kicking back and relaxing and barbecuing, and yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing some of that stuff, but I'm also just maybe
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  Speaker 1: in the thick of this marathon training and feeling a
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  Speaker 1: little beat up. Emily Badi here, What's shaken? Guys? Another
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  Speaker 1: hurdle moment from Hurdle Right Now, a podcast that talks
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  Speaker 1: to everyone from entrepreneurs to top CEOs and athletes about
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  Speaker 1: how they've gotten through tough times, hurdles and sorts by
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  Speaker 1: leaning into wellness. This week, I'm talking all about injury,
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  Speaker 1: how it can mess with your mind, how it can
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  Speaker 1: deter your progress, how it can make you feel, and
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  Speaker 1: what you can do to get through some of the tough,
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  Speaker 1: unexpected stuff and come out pretty good on the other side.
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  Speaker 1: the benefits of being a hurdler. Don't say I never
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  Speaker 1: gave you anything. Now, let's talk about injury, all right.
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  Speaker 1: I've had my fair share of them. I know how
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  Speaker 1: it feels to feel absolutely helpless to go into doctors'
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  Speaker 1: offices to not know what's going to happen next. And
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  Speaker 1: today I'm talking through how I got through some of
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  Speaker 1: my most difficult setbacks, what you can do to get
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  Speaker 1: through some of your own, and how we deal with
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  Speaker 1: all of the inner turmoil that goes on when you
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  Speaker 1: feel like you're just not being able to be your best.
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  Speaker 1: It's tough stuff, I know it. If you've been injured,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to talk about anything, you know how
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  Speaker 1: to find me. It's at Emily Body and over at
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  Speaker 1: Hurdle podcast also always available for you over on email
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  Speaker 1: Emily at hurdle dot us. I have to say I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate you guys so much. There's been a lot of
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  Speaker 1: things flying, dms and emails and all of the sorts.
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  Speaker 1: I am trying to get back to them as best
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  Speaker 1: as I can. If I've missed you, shoot me another note,
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  Speaker 1: No offense taken. I'm here for you again. Two way
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  Speaker 1: conversation makes me better every single day. And that's all.
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  Speaker 1: With that, Let's get to hurdling. Ho injury. It's tough, right.
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  Speaker 1: I know a lot of you have messaged me about
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  Speaker 1: this and have expressed this feeling that when you're injured
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  Speaker 1: and you feel like you can't perform, it feels like
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  Speaker 1: a part of you just isn't functioning. I can totally relate.
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  Speaker 1: My first serious injury was when I had a neuroma
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  Speaker 1: act up in my left foot. And if you've never
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  Speaker 1: heard of the word neuroma before, it's basically a fancy
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  Speaker 1: word for an inflamed nerve. It's really sexy, I know.
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  Speaker 1: And when that happened, it was so painful when I
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  Speaker 1: would run and walk that I had to give it
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  Speaker 1: a break. I also went to go see a podiatrist
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  Speaker 1: who ended up giving me injections, and after about two
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  Speaker 1: to three months time, I could finally get back to
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  Speaker 1: my normal level activity. Now this was way back before
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  Speaker 1: I'd even done a full marathon. I would argue that
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  Speaker 1: maybe I wasn't as even into running as I am now,
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  Speaker 1: but still it was a major setback and it really
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  Speaker 1: messed with me, but it set me up to better
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  Speaker 1: handle injuries that would come later on in my running
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  Speaker 1: career of sorts. So let's talk about smart strategies to
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  Speaker 1: implement when you're on the injured list, all right, Tip
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  Speaker 1: number one, Find an alternate activity to what you love
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  Speaker 1: to do that gives you some sort of joy and
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  Speaker 1: is okay by the way of your doctor. And what
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  Speaker 1: I mean by that is, obviously, if you like CrossFit,
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  Speaker 1: or you like spinning, or if you're a runner, those
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  Speaker 1: are the things that bring you the most happiness. But
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  Speaker 1: with that said, that doesn't mean that there aren't going
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  Speaker 1: to be other ways for you to sweat that can
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  Speaker 1: at least make you feel satisfied. Obviously, this depends on
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  Speaker 1: the severity of your injury. But for me, when I
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  Speaker 1: was sidelined from running, I leaned into the indoor spin bike,
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  Speaker 1: and not just like, Oh, I'm gonna go take a
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  Speaker 1: spin class, not like I had to do the full
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  Speaker 1: on sitting and reclining spin bike. I felt slightly like
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  Speaker 1: a senior citizen and it was frustrating. It was really frustrating.
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  Speaker 1: But the thing about that was that it was a
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  Speaker 1: big lesson in patience for me, right as I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: a lot of you can relate to by getting on
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  Speaker 1: the spin bike. It definitely wasn't the same cadence, the
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  Speaker 1: same energy as running, but at least I knew that
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  Speaker 1: I was doing something that was good for my body.
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  Speaker 1: I was sweating, I was moving, and that was a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot better than the other alternative, which was to
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  Speaker 1: sit around and get frustrated and angry. So tip number one,
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  Speaker 1: find a way to sweat. Find some way to help
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  Speaker 1: keep you sane. Injury tip number two. I know I've
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  Speaker 1: mentioned this a little bit already, but definitely, if something
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  Speaker 1: feels like it's wrong, go seek out a professional opinion.
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  Speaker 1: There have been times in my past where I felt
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  Speaker 1: as though something was wrong, and instead of getting the
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  Speaker 1: help that I needed, I was afraid to go talk
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  Speaker 1: to someone because I didn't want to hear the things
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want to hear. Lesson learned when you do that,
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  Speaker 1: things can get worse. So instead of hiding from an expert,
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  Speaker 1: go seek out an opinion, because what that can do
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  Speaker 1: is prevent anything further from happening down the line, anything worse.
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  Speaker 1: The last thing you want is to ignore a small
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  Speaker 1: pain which turns into a big pain, which turns into
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  Speaker 1: you being sidelined for months or maybe even longer, just
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  Speaker 1: because you were scared of facing the truth. Tip number
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  Speaker 1: three when it comes to dealing with injury, write about
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  Speaker 1: how you feel. I'm a big fan of putting words
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  Speaker 1: to paper, and maybe if you're not an actual write
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  Speaker 1: things down person, even though I think you should be,
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  Speaker 1: you tap it into your phone. Whatever works for you.
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  Speaker 1: That's fine. But the most important thing about this experience
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  Speaker 1: is that, as with any setbacks in life, it's an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity for you to learn. It's an opportunity for you
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  Speaker 1: to grow and understand what's going on and then maybe
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  Speaker 1: do some self work to help prevent it the next time.
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  Speaker 1: So put pen to paper and understand how you feel,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on in your head. If you're frustrated, Let
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  Speaker 1: it out. If you're sad, let it out. You need
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  Speaker 1: an outlet for that energy rather than keeping it all
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  Speaker 1: bottled up inside, because what that will do will just
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  Speaker 1: be like the match to a haystack. And that's the
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  Speaker 1: last thing you want is to get more upset over
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  Speaker 1: something that you don't have all of the control over.
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  Speaker 1: The next strategy I have for dealing with injury is
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  Speaker 1: actually doing what you're told. Here's the thing you like
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  Speaker 1: to move, I get it, but you need to make sure,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, that activity you're finding as a replacement
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  Speaker 1: the physical therapy suggestions that you might be getting if
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  Speaker 1: you're going to see a physical therapist, that you're doing
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  Speaker 1: your homework, that you're doing what you're supposed to do,
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  Speaker 1: because if you're not, or if you're overdoing it, that's
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  Speaker 1: only going to really again hurt you in the long run.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard when you're injured to keep your eye on
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  Speaker 1: the long term, right. It's like you miss the high
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  Speaker 1: you get from the exercise type that you crave, and
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  Speaker 1: while you might be able to find that for just
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  Speaker 1: a second by pushing the envelope, the repercussions from that
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  Speaker 1: are way too risky. You need to listen to your body.
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  Speaker 1: You need to listen to the experts, take a step
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  Speaker 1: back and give your body what it really needs. The
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  Speaker 1: next strategy be easy on yourself. I know that's easier
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  Speaker 1: said than done, and I know what comes when you're
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  Speaker 1: on the injured list. It definitely results in a little
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  Speaker 1: bit less active of a lifestyle. And even if you
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  Speaker 1: do find those substitutes, which can be some sort of filler,
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  Speaker 1: it's just not the same. With that can come a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a shift in your mental space. And
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  Speaker 1: I've been there, you know. Last year after the Boston Marathon,
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  Speaker 1: I had a really bad nerve going into it and
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  Speaker 1: was able to get through okay. But the conditions and
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  Speaker 1: the wetness and the awfulness of that day really took
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  Speaker 1: a toll on my body, and I knew I needed
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  Speaker 1: to take a step back, and that step back after
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  Speaker 1: race day it caused me to get kind of upset.
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  Speaker 1: I just want you guys to know that it's normal
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  Speaker 1: to get upset. It's normal to be bummed. You don't
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  Speaker 1: work really hard in your sport or in your field
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  Speaker 1: to watch everything go wrong. But with that said, think
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  Speaker 1: long term. This is just right now. So at this moment.
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  Speaker 1: When you have an injury, you have the chance to
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  Speaker 1: do other work right instead of the physical, take a
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  Speaker 1: step back and think about the bigger picture, think about
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  Speaker 1: the mental. Maybe now is the perfect time for you
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  Speaker 1: to work on defining what your values are. Maybe now
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  Speaker 1: is the perfect time for you to use the hours
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  Speaker 1: that you'd spend running on the weekend to work on
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  Speaker 1: your career goals. Or think about the habits that you have,
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  Speaker 1: the good ones, the bad ones, and the ones that
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  Speaker 1: you want to adopt to make you feel like a
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  Speaker 1: better you. What I'm trying to say as a whole
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  Speaker 1: here is that there is so much room for personal
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  Speaker 1: growth and it doesn't just need to be when they're
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  Speaker 1: sweat dripping down your face and your heart is beating
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  Speaker 1: out of your chest. The injured list doesn't have to
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  Speaker 1: define you. You are bigger than this, I promise you.
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  Speaker 1: And that's it for now. Just some quick tips on
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  Speaker 1: how I got through my own injuries, hoping that you
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  Speaker 1: can use them to get through yours. If you need me,
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  Speaker 1: if you have anything to add Emily at Hurdle us at,
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  Speaker 1: Emilybodi at Hurdle Podcast, Another Hurdle Conquered. Catch you guys,
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  Speaker 1: next time,