143. Becs Gentry, Peloton Instructor & Runner

Hurdle with Emily Abbate · Jan 11, 2021 · 1h 5m · transcript

With personal best times of 1:16 in the half marathon and 2:37 in the marathon, Becs Gentry is a stellar athlete — proud of the body she’s built that enables her to show up every single day. But in episode 143 of Hurdle, she tells me about a time in her life when she actually didn’t feel super comfortable in her own skin. The Peloton instructor details what it was like to first start integrating more walking into her day to day back home in England, and how that routine slowly developed into a running habit.

She tells me about the conversation she had with her uncle that changed everything…