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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: You Can't Rush A Good Thing (Trust Me, It's Coming) · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Emily here. You are listening to five Minute
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  Speaker 1: Friday from Hurdle. Hello. Hello, from my new desk. If
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  Speaker 1: out every single Friday. It's absolutely free to do so,
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  Speaker 1: so if you're not in on it yet, get in
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  Speaker 1: on it. The link to do that is in the
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  Speaker 1: show notes. But if you are subscribed, then you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. I have a new desk. I'm
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  Speaker 1: mixing some things up in the studio, say, mixing some
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  Speaker 1: things up five times fast. It's not easy, and it's
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  Speaker 1: frustrating because I want it to all be done right now,
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  Speaker 1: and that is just not how this is happening for me.
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  Speaker 1: So deep exhales. But that's not what I'm here to
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  Speaker 1: talk about this week. Last week I was talking to
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  Speaker 1: you about how nothing feels like it's clicking for me
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to my workouts. And I'm here to
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  Speaker 1: report that I had a good workout. The long run
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  Speaker 1: went well, but it was actually a workout on Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: that involved some threshold pace, which is the fastest pace
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  Speaker 1: you can really sustain for a long period of time,
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  Speaker 1: let's say between twenty and sixty minutes without accumulating excessive
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  Speaker 1: lactic acid. I know that's very like inside baseball. Basically,
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  Speaker 1: what I'm telling you is that it's an uncomfortable pace.
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  Speaker 1: And so I had a mile and a half warm up,
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  Speaker 1: a two mile threshold run, and then a mile and
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  Speaker 1: a half cool down. And I did that run and
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  Speaker 1: I felt really strong, and I just haven't been able
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  Speaker 1: to say that lately. And I walked back into the
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  Speaker 1: building after treating myself to some fruit at the local Bodiga,
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  Speaker 1: and I was reminded of the why that I stick
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  Speaker 1: it out on all of the hard days. I finally
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  Speaker 1: felt like, oh, this is what I remember, this is
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  Speaker 1: why I like to do this thing. And I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: you've heard the rule of thirds before. A third of
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  Speaker 1: the time it's going to feel really good, a third
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  Speaker 1: of the time it's going to feel okay, and a
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  Speaker 1: third of the time it's going to feel really junkie.
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  Speaker 1: Credit to Alexi Papas on that one. I don't I had.
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  Speaker 1: I cannot say that I've been even living in this
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  Speaker 1: rule of thirds. I've been living in the rule of
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  Speaker 1: like ninety percent, where ninety percent it's just like meh
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  Speaker 1: or bad, and maybe ten percent it's good. And now
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  Speaker 1: after that one good run, I feel like my cup
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  Speaker 1: is runneth over and I am prepared for a handful
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  Speaker 1: of whatever happens next. Sometimes you just need to see
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  Speaker 1: the light at the end of the tunnel, and that's
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  Speaker 1: where I'm at right now. I also wrote about this
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  Speaker 1: in the Weekly Hurdle this week. Patience is really hard
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  Speaker 1: to exercise more often than not. But the thing is
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  Speaker 1: is that the good things are worth waiting for. And
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  Speaker 1: although I'm not of the mindset that you should have
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  Speaker 1: to wait forever to feel strong and confident with running
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  Speaker 1: or anything that you pour yourself into all the time,
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  Speaker 1: I do understand the why. I understand why sometimes you
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  Speaker 1: just gotta take a deep breath and give it time.
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  Speaker 1: And trust me, if you're in a season where you're
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  Speaker 1: also giving some things sometime, I promise you, promise you,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to pay off soon. Okay, my thought prompt
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  Speaker 1: for you this week? Where can you exercise a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more patience in your day to day? Again? Where
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  Speaker 1: can you exercise a little bit more patience in your
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  Speaker 1: day to day? And now I'll listen our question. Hey, Emily,
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  Speaker 1: my name is Amy. I'm a longtime listener of the show,
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  Speaker 1: and I have a super random question regarding my toes
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  Speaker 1: getting numb when I work out. I find that no
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  Speaker 1: matter what I'm doing, whether I'm weightlifting or I'm running,
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  Speaker 1: the longer I'm doing an activity, the more often I
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  Speaker 1: will experience numbness in the forefoot of my sneaker. Oh
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  Speaker 1: my gosh, I feel so bad for you. I'm wondering
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  Speaker 1: if you can advise what's going on here? Does this
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  Speaker 1: just mean that my shoes are too tight? Should I
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  Speaker 1: be loosening my laces? What do you recommend? Thanks so
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  Speaker 1: much and love the show, Amy, Amy, I feel so
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  Speaker 1: bad for your poor toesies. A couple of things that
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  Speaker 1: I have done when my feet have given me issues
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  Speaker 1: kind of along these lines I'm thinking about, like black
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  Speaker 1: toenails or just discomfort in general. First of all, your
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  Speaker 1: workout shoe, especially your running shoes, should be at least
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  Speaker 1: a half size up from your street shoe size to
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  Speaker 1: accommodate for swelling. Think of it, your foot is continually
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  Speaker 1: hitting against the ground, and so when that happens, swelling occurs.
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  Speaker 1: So you want to be offering yourself some room to
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  Speaker 1: accommodate for that happening. I wear a size ten street shoe,
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  Speaker 1: but a size ten and a half running shoe. So
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  Speaker 1: there's that. And then the second thing, and this is
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  Speaker 1: maybe like a little weird to vocalize, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: make sure that your toenails are short. Again, this is
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  Speaker 1: a weird thing to point out, but especially when I
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  Speaker 1: am logging a lot of miles, this is something that
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  Speaker 1: I'm super conscious of. Is just keeping things short. This
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  Speaker 1: is pedicure season. If you know, you know, as far
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  Speaker 1: as the lace is being loose, you definitely want to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that your foot is supported, and especially if
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  Speaker 1: you're going to be doing any lateral movements, you want
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  Speaker 1: that lace to be secure. So I wouldn't necessarily recommend
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  Speaker 1: loosening the laces unless you really just think that you're
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  Speaker 1: cutting off your circulation there. But I know we don't
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  Speaker 1: want we want to prevent the preventable, right, So you're
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  Speaker 1: totally not the only person I'm sure that experiences this.
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  Speaker 1: Try that and get back to me. Make sure you
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