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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome to Healthy Ish. I am Felicity Harley and

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Speaker 1: today you're listening to an extra special episode of the

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Speaker 1: Body and Soul podcast. Yes, this week we are celebrating

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Speaker 1: our superstar Olympians and joining me on this episode is

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Speaker 1: high jumper Eleanor Patterson, who I caught up a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks ago online from Spain. She explained the intricacies

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Speaker 1: of her event, her pre Paris training load, and how

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Speaker 1: she's approaching the Olympics the third time around. Make sure

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Speaker 1: you're listening to extra Healthy Ish, where she talks about

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Speaker 1: how she finds extreme focus in the middle of her event.

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Speaker 1: You can catch that one wherever you get your podcasts.

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Speaker 2: Eleanor. Really nice to have you on the pod. How

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Speaker 2: are you.

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Speaker 3: I'm wonderful, Thank you, thank you for having me, and.

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Speaker 1: I should say congratulations and well done on another Olympics

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Speaker 1: and thank you for champione US in Australia at these games.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: No, it's it's super exciting and so any kind of

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Speaker 3: ability to hype up the Olympics and even just the

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Speaker 3: individual stories around athletes. I'm all about it for sure.

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Speaker 2: Oh good, me too, That's why I've got you on.

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Speaker 4: But tell me.

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Speaker 2: You're a high jumper. What do you love about high jump?

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Speaker 4: There's so much to me that I love.

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Speaker 3: It's such a strange thing to think that my career

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Speaker 3: is running and jumping at a bar and trying to

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Speaker 3: clear it and playing this game of chance in a

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Speaker 3: lot of ways. But I was always a very hyperactive

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Speaker 3: kid in a lot of ways, and I love sport.

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Speaker 3: I just love the outlet in which it creates for people,

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Speaker 3: the community it creates creates for people, but also for

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Speaker 3: me personally, especially as an individual athlete, which just as

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Speaker 3: an athlete or you know, as a person that I'm

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Speaker 3: able to find this as a hobby as a kid,

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Speaker 3: essentially that it was, you know, this challenge but also

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Speaker 3: exciting outlet for me to challenge myself in every facet,

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Speaker 3: whether that beef is you play emotionally and mentally, and

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Speaker 3: so it's that outlet for me, and especially because I'm

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Speaker 3: the one out there competing, there's no way to hide

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Speaker 3: from whatever's going on inside your head. You've got to

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Speaker 3: really back yourself and you've got to run and I

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Speaker 3: guess obey a lot of physics to run around a

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Speaker 3: curve and see if you can jump over a bar.

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Speaker 3: And so it's many, many years of hard work, dedication,

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Speaker 3: but at the same time, it's just you know, you've

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Speaker 3: got to rock up on the day and be your

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Speaker 3: best self and express your best self.

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Speaker 1: You know, I probably didn't appreciate how much of a

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Speaker 1: mental game high jump is as well. I mean, we

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Speaker 1: know it's physical, you have to run and jump and

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Speaker 1: you want to have power and speed, but the mental

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Speaker 1: side of it is I mean every sport is, but

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Speaker 1: particularly high jump, because you've got to get yourself over

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it really is.

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Speaker 3: It is very mentally engaging, and you're out there sometimes

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Speaker 3: for two hours even more, and you start at a

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Speaker 3: and you're most mentally engaged, and you know, you might

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Speaker 3: have really big jumps early on, but then it's what

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Speaker 3: moments when you're tussling for a PB or a season's

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Speaker 1: Yeah, god, medal. What does your training involve, I mean,

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Speaker 1: we're talking to your Madrid at the moment. What does

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Speaker 1: it evolve leading into Olympics.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, it's quite a busy schedule in a lot

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Speaker 3: At the moment, I have one last competition about three

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Speaker 3: and a half weeks out until the Games right now.

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Speaker 3: But I have one last competition this weekend in Germany.

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Speaker 3: From then on, it's just a normal programming and just

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Speaker 3: training essentially. We're in a phase now where we'll start

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Speaker 3: to like it's a competition season, so we're tapering off,

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Speaker 3: so like the load is lightning. We as a training group,

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Speaker 3: But yeah, everything's kind of getting stripped back now. Like

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Speaker 2: Essentially, they why do you strip the low back?

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Speaker 1: Is that just to let your legs kind of I

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess it's more the rest element.

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Speaker 3: There's definitely that sweet spot where you want to be

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Speaker 3: able to have a certain weight where it's heavy enough

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Speaker 3: to activate yourself. But it's also if you're under too

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Speaker 3: and it makes it hard to be springy. Essentially, a

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Speaker 3: lot of our event is very much involved in, you know,

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Speaker 3: the central nervous system and being able to just fire

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Speaker 3: and be able to be powerful and springy and really

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Speaker 2: So yeah, that explosiveness and the springing. I like that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I like that word. Now, you've been to two Olympics.

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Speaker 1: How are you approaching this one is a bit different?

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Speaker 1: Or are you going in with the same a similar mindset?

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Speaker 4: Definitely quite different in a lot of ways. I feel

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Speaker 3: Been around for a long time. I'm only twenty eight

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Speaker 3: right now, which in athletics, terms. Isn't crazy old at all.

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Speaker 3: It's not, that's for sure, even though my young training

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Speaker 3: partner who's nineteen, she always much around and calls me old.

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Speaker 4: But it's just all all fun and game. Not old, No,

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Speaker 3: And yeah, being my first one was when I was

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Speaker 3: five in the end in Tokyo, and I feel like

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Speaker 3: I've got so much experience coming into this one, that's

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Speaker 3: for sure. I know what to expect. I think, especially

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Speaker 3: in the last four years, I've been around the circuit

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Speaker 3: a lot, especially for athletics in Europe, and the Diamond

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Speaker 3: League competitions is where it's where it's at as far

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Speaker 3: And then I've been to many major championships, and so

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Speaker 3: I feel like going into this one, it's obviously still

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Speaker 3: And so I feel like having just a number of

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Speaker 3: it's it feels far more second nature than it did

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Speaker 3: when I was twenty, that's for sure, which is obviously given.

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Speaker 1: But what are you most excited about when it comes

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Speaker 4: Oh so many things.

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Speaker 3: Obviously, you know, competing that's very exciting and just seeing

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Speaker 3: you know, there's the epitome of athletics. But I think

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Speaker 3: as well, for me, as much as it's you know,

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Speaker 3: it's that end game, it's that goal, it's what we

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Speaker 3: work towards for every four year cycle or three year

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Speaker 3: cycle for this time around. But and it obviously means

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Speaker 3: so much, but more often than not, it's about the journey.

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Speaker 3: And I also love the periods of time when we're

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Speaker 3: each other's pockets, which and then you were able to

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Speaker 3: It's those moments where you're just able to hang out

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Speaker 3: other moments that were really important for me. I think

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Speaker 3: another thing that I'm really looking forward to is the

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Speaker 3: fact that some of my family are coming across and

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Speaker 3: being able to watch me compete, and so that's really

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Speaker 3: the support of my loved ones and they've not actually

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Speaker 3: been able to watch me compete all that much in

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Speaker 3: the last four years, and so it's going to be

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Speaker 3: really really special. But I think it's just those moments

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Speaker 1: I've got one final question that actually comes from my

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Speaker 1: ten year old son who's just made the regionals for

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Speaker 1: high jump, and here he wants to know, what's your highest

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Speaker 1: jump that you've ever done?

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Speaker 4: Incredible.

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Speaker 3: My highest jump that I've ever done is two meters

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Speaker 3: and two centimeters. That's my personal beast and amazing.

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Speaker 4: Hopefully that can fall this year.

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Speaker 3: I feel like I'm in korey best shape, so who knows,

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Speaker 3: but yeah, two meters and two centimeters.

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Speaker 1: Well, all the best, and thank you for coming on

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Speaker 1: healthish and good luck.

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Speaker 4: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 3: Good luck for your son at the regionals as well.

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Speaker 1: Thank you you like watching high jump I do just

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Speaker 1: the competition and the extreme focus is quite amazing and inspiring. Hey,

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Speaker 1: we do have a special Paris hub on bodyansoul dot

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Speaker 2: You, so make sure you jump on there.

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