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Speaker 1: Well, hello, they're Healthy Ish listeners. Hope you're having a

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Speaker 1: good day and after listening to this episode you are

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Speaker 1: going to have a great day. Of course you have

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Speaker 1: tuned into the Body and Soul podcast with me Felicity Hallie. Yes,

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Speaker 1: this episode is the inspo you need today. Jess Stinson

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Speaker 1: joins me. She is, of course one of our best

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Speaker 1: long distance runners, a two time Olympian, almost three and

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Speaker 1: comm Games medalist. She shares today how she's prepping for

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Speaker 1: Paris after only having a child nine months ago. She's

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Speaker 1: also got a four year old. You will love this

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Speaker 1: chat because you also hear from her nine month old Ellie,

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Speaker 1: who blows a few raspberries throughout the interview. Also make

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Speaker 1: sure you're listening to Extra Healthy Ish, where she shares

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Speaker 1: more about how she qualified for the Olympics nine months

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Speaker 1: after giving birth. You can search for Extra Healthy Ish

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Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. Jess, congratulations, Thank you for

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Speaker 1: well making time to chat to us on Healthy.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for having me. I'm looking forward to chatting again.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I was actually when I was

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Speaker 1: looking up when you joined us last time, and it

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Speaker 1: was actually nearly a year ago. I can't quite believe it,

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Speaker 1: and I think then you said I don't want to

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Speaker 1: think about Paris, and now we're here, you're making it.

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Speaker 1: How does that feel?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot's happened in the last year. It's special

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Speaker 3: to be here this time with Ellie. She's on my

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Speaker 3: lap here. You might hear some raspberries in the background.

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Speaker 3: She's recently discovered her voice, so she's just started saying

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Speaker 3: data today actually, which is really cute. And it's really

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Speaker 3: special to know that we'll be traveling to Paris as

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Speaker 3: a family and not long now.

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Speaker 2: The race is just over nine weeks away, so.

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Speaker 3: Busily preparing for that one and planning our travels because

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Speaker 3: I will go to do an ouchu camp prior to

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Speaker 3: the race and a little bit of heat training. We

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Speaker 3: can get into the details later, but the Paris course

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Speaker 3: is meant to be quite hilly and it will be

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Speaker 3: summer there, so prep will be quite specific to those

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Speaker 1: Course, where do you do the attitude training? What does

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Speaker 1: that look like?

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Speaker 3: So I'll be going with my whole family, so my husband, Dylan,

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Speaker 3: Billy who's four now, and Ellie who's eight months old,

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Speaker 3: and we'll be going to Saint Maritz, which is a

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Speaker 3: location that I've been to three times before, and so

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Speaker 3: I know the trails, I know the drill there, and.

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Speaker 2: It's honestly, it's hard to hold yourself back.

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Speaker 3: The running is so beautiful and there are so many

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Speaker 3: other athletes there.

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Speaker 2: It's easy to be over motivated.

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Speaker 3: So certainly clocking up the case isn't difficult.

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Speaker 1: In Saint Maritz, how do you go about training? I

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Speaker 1: mean in nine months is early? Nine months now? Is

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Speaker 1: that what she's saying?

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Speaker 2: Nearly? It was coming up?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, how I mean, how the hell do you do it?

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Speaker 3: Well, look, it logistically is a challenge. So this small

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Speaker 3: we had a babysitter come to our house for what

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Speaker 3: hopefully she'll go down for her nap and I'll do

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Speaker 3: a run on the treadmill. So having a running option

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Speaker 2: Billy's at Kindy now, so he sort of works in with.

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Speaker 3: Kindy times but physically fueling is really important.

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Speaker 2: I learned that the hard way last time.

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Speaker 3: I just don't think I quite nailed the fueling and sleep.

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Speaker 2: As difficult as that can be with a baby or

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Speaker 3: So we, like my husband and I are generally in

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Speaker 3: One other thing is strength and conditioning training. I didn't

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Speaker 1: Now you're breastfeeding as well, I mean, this adds a

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Speaker 3: It'll be interesting when we get to the village Paris Olympics.

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Speaker 2: It's the first time they've had a village nursery, so

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Speaker 2: I've already been emailing in and.

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Speaker 3: Inquiring about how we can get access to that.

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Speaker 2: So my husband will be able to bring Ellie in

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Speaker 3: Hoping by then that she'll be better at taking a

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And by the way, we love hearing

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Speaker 1: her raspberries. I mean we love them, Ellie, we love

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Speaker 1: the mental side of things? So or does it help

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Speaker 1: having getting your mind off it as well having a baby.

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Speaker 3: I really enjoyed the outlet of running. So when I

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Speaker 3: Billy and Ellie were delivered by C section, Billy was

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Speaker 3: I just I love the outdoors and I love being

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Speaker 3: time with the kids. But sometimes having that moment to

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Speaker 3: And so I enjoyed the process of getting back into running,

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Speaker 2: And I don't know.

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Speaker 3: If that perspective is because of motherhood or just more

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Speaker 2: I'm more just excited to see what's possible. So a

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Speaker 2: lot of things have happened in my life in.

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Speaker 3: Recent years that could have contributed to that, motherhood being

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Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, And I think I remember last time

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Speaker 1: at the end at the Calm Games and where are

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Speaker 1: the kids going to be like and where are they

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Speaker 1: going to be in Paris?

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Speaker 3: Well, Billy only asked yesterday. He's had a little he's

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Speaker 2: About the whole Olympics. He's like, so, mum, you're in

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Speaker 3: And he asked if he could wear his bounce socks

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Speaker 2: So what do you mean in his life? He's I

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Speaker 3: Too, And I said, oh, you can watch, and he's like,

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Speaker 2: I was like, no, you'll be part of it. You'll

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Speaker 3: And he was just trying to understand what the Olympics

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Speaker 2: I think he sort of thinks it's yeah, like a

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Speaker 3: And he's already being asked at KINDI whether he's going,

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Speaker 3: I think so. Ellie obviously won't know what's going on

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Speaker 3: but I think Billy will form some lifelong memories. And

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Speaker 3: just so special to have everyone together. That hasn't happened

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Speaker 3: I don't think ever for a race of mind.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, awesome. Well we'll be cheering for you back

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Speaker 1: here in Australia and well all the best with the

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Speaker 1: run and the juggle, and thanks for joining us today.

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Speaker 2: Thank you listeny.

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Speaker 1: Ah, what a superstar. Hey always love chatting to Jess

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Speaker 1: and Jess. We wish you so much luck in Paris.

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Speaker 1: We will all be cheering, especially all the breastfeeding moms

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Speaker 1: now If you do want to listen in to my

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Speaker 1: last chat with Jess. We talked about crushing your running goals,

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Speaker 1: and we'll leave a link to that in these show notes.

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