1 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:21,520 Speaker 1: What's going on everyone? Emily and Badi here you were 2 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 1: listening to five Minute Friday from Hurdle Live from Tokyo. 3 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 1: It's been what a week. I feel very grateful that 4 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:36,360 Speaker 1: when I travel typically i'm more often than not really 5 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:40,240 Speaker 1: good with sleep. It's been over a year since I've 6 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 1: been to this part of the world. I came to 7 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:47,400 Speaker 1: Tokyo for the first time last spring for the marathon, 8 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:54,040 Speaker 1: and I don't remember having this much trouble with my 9 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 1: jet lag. I got something like four hours of sleep 10 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 1: the first night. I graduated to a little bit less 11 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:06,600 Speaker 1: at three hours of sleep the second night. So I 12 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:11,640 Speaker 1: am open to alternative suggestions on how to sort this out. 13 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 1: If anyone wants to hit my DMS over at Emily 14 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:19,680 Speaker 1: A Bandi on Social I digress. I am talking about 15 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 1: doing the best I can with what I have. So 16 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:27,959 Speaker 1: yesterday I did my long run for the week, and 17 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 1: for context, it is something like one hundred degrees real 18 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:36,200 Speaker 1: feel in Tokyo right now. It's quite warm and the 19 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:40,400 Speaker 1: humidity is up there. And I went into the morning 20 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:44,760 Speaker 1: with a lot of reservations and a good deal of nerves. 21 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 1: I understood that it was going to be hard. I 22 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 1: understood many of the things that were working against me. 23 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: It was, like I said, so warm. I did get 24 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 1: five hours of sleep on a flight over, my best 25 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:06,120 Speaker 1: night of sleep yet, and I am in a completely 26 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:10,800 Speaker 1: different place, not in my own bed, et cetera. However, 27 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 1: I also recognize that I can do hard things, and 28 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 1: so yesterday I went out there and I decided to 29 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:22,920 Speaker 1: consciously take note of the things that were going well. 30 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:27,720 Speaker 1: So let's take this back. Before I even went outside, 31 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:30,679 Speaker 1: I was up gosh, an hour and a half or 32 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:34,240 Speaker 1: two hours earlier than my alarm because of the jet lag. 33 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 1: So I wake up and I'm like, okay, I'm going 34 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:41,079 Speaker 1: to try to fall asleep for a bit, and when 35 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 1: it doesn't work, I'm just gonna stick it out. That's 36 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 1: exactly what happened. And I thought to myself, Okay, what 37 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 1: is good about this moment? Okay, slow morning, super quiet, 38 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:56,840 Speaker 1: let's enjoy it. Awesome. I journaled, I played nice music. 39 00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 1: I made a pour over coffee in my room because 40 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 1: that is what's accessible here to me. Right now. I 41 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:09,120 Speaker 1: warmed up. It was very serene, candidly. I get outside, 42 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 1: and I do not remember it being this bright the 43 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:16,640 Speaker 1: last time I was here, but it is so beautiful. 44 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:19,120 Speaker 1: I got outside at five point fifteen to start my 45 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 1: run and it was already completely bright out, as though 46 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:26,640 Speaker 1: it was like seven fifteen in New York City. I 47 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 1: get out there and my first thought is this weather 48 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 1: isn't as bad as I anticipated. It was oppressive, don't 49 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,520 Speaker 1: get me wrong, but it wasn't as bad as I anticipated. 50 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 1: And then I created a root using Strava, and if 51 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 1: you don't follow me over there, there's also a hurdler's 52 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 1: group that you can search for all and get in 53 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 1: the show notes. But I made a root on Strava 54 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:56,480 Speaker 1: and just hoped that it would be the best possible 55 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 1: because I don't know Tokyo that well, and I felt 56 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 1: as though I got really lucky at the route. It 57 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 1: wasn't super hilly. I was able to do a bit 58 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 1: of sight seeing, and everything was smooth sailing, all things considered, 59 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 1: until I got to mile fourteen, when by accident, I 60 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 1: realized that I made the route go alongside of a 61 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 1: river that was in direct sunlight for a mile and 62 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:26,159 Speaker 1: a half and when I tell you, I was melting 63 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 1: understatement understatement of the day. Although it is quite early 64 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:34,240 Speaker 1: when I'm recording this, my time I get to the 65 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:38,320 Speaker 1: end and I'm venting about this to a friend over text, 66 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:43,359 Speaker 1: and as I start my jog again and continue on 67 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 1: my way, I think to myself, there is no way 68 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 1: at all that race day would ever be any worse 69 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 1: than this. And sometimes that really helps the visualization, right 70 00:04:56,520 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 1: when you think to yourself, what's the worst case scenario? Oh, okay, 71 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:05,359 Speaker 1: I can evaluate that and you realize that the worst 72 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:09,720 Speaker 1: case scenario likely isn't that bad. There is absolutely no way. 73 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:12,600 Speaker 1: I'm like literally going to knock on the wall very 74 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: lightly right now. There is no way that it's going 75 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 1: to be one hundred degrees in one hundred percent humidity 76 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 1: in Chicago in October when I run this marathon. It's 77 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:22,359 Speaker 1: just not going to happen. And so it made me. 78 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 1: It transported me right back to this run I did 79 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:28,960 Speaker 1: in the rain training for Boston in twenty eighteen, famously 80 00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 1: awful weather, crazy winds, downpour, hail, the year that does 81 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 1: one Boston, I never ran in the rain, and I 82 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 1: ran in the rain for what felt like the first 83 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:43,840 Speaker 1: time in my life for a long run. That training 84 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:48,360 Speaker 1: cycle and that rainy long run instilled in me that 85 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:51,720 Speaker 1: I am capable of moving forward through something that is challenging. 86 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:55,480 Speaker 1: And then ultimately, when I ran that Boston, I remembered 87 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:57,840 Speaker 1: when I got hard, that you pushed through this once 88 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:01,080 Speaker 1: before and you are capable of doing it again. And 89 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:04,120 Speaker 1: so that's really where I went during this run yesterday, 90 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 1: during this difficult moment, I was reminded that I can 91 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:12,280 Speaker 1: do hard things and it can still be challenging. Something 92 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:15,920 Speaker 1: can be challenging and I can still do it. And 93 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:20,280 Speaker 1: so I know, I like in a lot of life 94 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:24,120 Speaker 1: analogies to things that happened to me on the run, 95 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:28,960 Speaker 1: But it's because it's so applicable, whether you are yourself 96 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:33,800 Speaker 1: someone that laces up or perhaps you indulge in challenging 97 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 1: activities in other ways. I support whatever your situation is, 98 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 1: but know that when we persist, when we conquer these hurdles, 99 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:48,800 Speaker 1: it is resiliency building. It is something that helps us 100 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 1: come back stronger each and every time. So if you're 101 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:55,120 Speaker 1: in the middle of a difficult season, or maybe you're 102 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 1: just going through a difficult moment trying to conquer a 103 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:04,760 Speaker 1: difficult hurdle, know that it can be difficult and you 104 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:08,920 Speaker 1: can do it. And I think that is where the 105 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 1: magic is. My question for you this week, how can 106 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 1: you reframe a difficult moment that's going on in your life? 107 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 1: What are the positives that this is bringing to you? 108 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:23,320 Speaker 1: Think about the positives of a difficult moment in your 109 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:27,080 Speaker 1: life that you are navigating right now. How can you 110 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 1: use this and think of it as a moment to 111 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 1: strengthen your resiliency muscle? And now a listener question. Hey Emily, 112 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:39,320 Speaker 1: longtime listener here. I love your five minute Friday, So 113 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:41,400 Speaker 1: here's a question. What shoes do you have your eye 114 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 1: on for the Chicago Marathon. I've run two marathons so far, 115 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:47,160 Speaker 1: each in different shoes, and for my upcoming third marathon 116 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:50,120 Speaker 1: in December, I'm interested in trying something new. I'd love 117 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 1: to hear what you're considering for yourself raced A shoe 118 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 1: choice is always such a fun topic. Love your podcast 119 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:59,520 Speaker 1: and cheering for you. Thanks tay So. I will be 120 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 1: right Chicago in the Alpha Fly three from Nike. I 121 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 1: have tried many carbon plated shoes, and I typically opt 122 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 1: for a carbon plated shoe on race day because of 123 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 1: the benefits of wearing something like this, the forward propulsion, 124 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 1: the running economy. I don't train super often. In the 125 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 1: Alpha Fly, I will wear it for a couple of 126 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:23,080 Speaker 1: long runs during the cycle. I save that feeling for 127 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:26,200 Speaker 1: race day, so it feels like and mentally it's like 128 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:29,720 Speaker 1: my personal super shoe. I have plenty of other super 129 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:32,080 Speaker 1: shoes that I like for different reasons. For instance, I've 130 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:35,680 Speaker 1: been running in the on Cloud Boom Max in Tokyo. 131 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:39,720 Speaker 1: It is so sturdy and secure while also having a 132 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:43,680 Speaker 1: plate as well. However, that extra boost I'm talking about 133 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:46,760 Speaker 1: it doesn't feel as noticeable in that shoe, So an 134 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:49,560 Speaker 1: option like that, for instance, might be good for someone 135 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:52,839 Speaker 1: who's never used a super shoe before. I'm a big 136 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:56,079 Speaker 1: fan of SOCNY super shoe the endorfin Elite. I really 137 00:08:56,160 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 1: like Brooks Hyperionally. There's so many options on the market, 138 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:03,640 Speaker 1: and I'm really listing super shoes again here for a 139 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:06,600 Speaker 1: race day option. But know yourself and know your body, 140 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:10,800 Speaker 1: and remember the golden rule. Nothing new on race day. 141 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:15,160 Speaker 1: So if you're someone that feels a lot more comfortable 142 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 1: in something with more support, more cushioning, it's okay not 143 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,840 Speaker 1: to use a super shoe on race day. You want 144 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:24,439 Speaker 1: to go with what you know, You want to go 145 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:28,600 Speaker 1: with what makes you feel comfortable. Of course, always here 146 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:32,360 Speaker 1: to answer other questions, feel free to reach out over 147 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:35,040 Speaker 1: email and ask listener question to be featured in an 148 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:39,920 Speaker 1: upcoming five minute Friday. That email address is hello at 149 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:43,960 Speaker 1: hurdle dot us Again, I'm over at Emily Body at 150 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:48,400 Speaker 1: Hurdle Podcast. Another hurdle conquered. Catch you guys next time.