1 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:25,720 Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, Emily here you are listening to another installment 2 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 1: of five Minute Friday from Hurdle. Oh man, it feels 3 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 1: so dang good to be back in New York. Listen. 4 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:37,120 Speaker 1: I am so grateful for the traveling. I had an 5 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 1: unblieable time gallivanting around Italy and France and Chicago. But man, 6 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 1: there is just no place like home. And it's interesting, 7 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:49,280 Speaker 1: right because this is the first home that I've walked 8 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:52,639 Speaker 1: back into. And trust me, like I've traveled so much 9 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 1: over the last few years for work, I'm used to 10 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:58,360 Speaker 1: being away for little stints of time, but this is 11 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:00,640 Speaker 1: the first home that I walked back in and it 12 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:05,319 Speaker 1: just really really felt like home. And it's the best 13 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 1: damn feeling. Anyway, Five Minute Friday. This week I got 14 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:14,120 Speaker 1: to talk to you about Chicago. Wow. First off, how 15 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:18,160 Speaker 1: special was it to have the opportunity to be on 16 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 1: the sidelines of a major marathon for the first time 17 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:30,039 Speaker 1: in forever? You know, it made me think about the 18 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:32,760 Speaker 1: appreciation I have, or the opportunity that I have to 19 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:36,559 Speaker 1: just be on the sidelines, which isn't an easy place 20 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 1: to get to, right, especially when you hope to be 21 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 1: the one that's running the course. But standing there in 22 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 1: community and this moment over the weekend, it was truly special. 23 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 1: I think I've said this on the show before, but 24 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 1: think about life, right, Like, when is there any other 25 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 1: opportunity for so many different people of different backgrounds and 26 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 1: political beliefs, you know, opinions to stand together and come 27 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:08,080 Speaker 1: together for one common purpose. And the fact that this 28 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:12,120 Speaker 1: common purpose is individuals on a quest to go after 29 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 1: their big potential is so special. And what an intimate 30 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:20,040 Speaker 1: and beautiful moment and opportunity there is between the runner 31 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:25,240 Speaker 1: and the bystander, the cheerer to like share that energy. 32 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:29,119 Speaker 1: It's just awesome. It was interesting when I was out 33 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:31,280 Speaker 1: there on the sidelines and I was cheering. I went 34 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 1: to mile twenty four and a half and I actually 35 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:36,680 Speaker 1: wrote about this earlier this week on social media. But 36 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 1: if you want to see like the entire span of 37 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 1: every human emotion possible, go to mile twenty four and 38 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 1: a half, otherwise known as the forty k marker of 39 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:49,919 Speaker 1: a marathon. Like there are happy people, there are people 40 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 1: that are completely depleted. There are people that are beside 41 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 1: themselves with sadness. There are people that are questioning literally 42 00:02:56,720 --> 00:03:00,919 Speaker 1: everything in their life. Excitement, joy like everything right, and 43 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 1: to be at that point over the weekend, I found 44 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:11,359 Speaker 1: a great opportunity to serve a greater purpose. So many 45 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:13,000 Speaker 1: of the people I know that were running that marathon, 46 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:15,639 Speaker 1: and I think I was tracking like thirty five different runners, 47 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 1: but so many different runners. Some of you listening to this. 48 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 1: When you get to that point, as one would expect, 49 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:25,360 Speaker 1: it is just so difficult. And I decided to start 50 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:28,800 Speaker 1: hopping in with some of my friends, if only just 51 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:32,240 Speaker 1: to run for a few seconds. And in those few seconds, 52 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 1: I would start by doing like a gut check and 53 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 1: asking where they're at. And not a single person that 54 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 1: I hopped in with like was in a good place. 55 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 1: Everyone like fell borderline like emotional breakdown. The race hadn't 56 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:47,040 Speaker 1: been going as they had hoped, and I knew that 57 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 1: this was my chance to help them find some necessary 58 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 1: perspective so that they could finish off this whole thing 59 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 1: feeling really powerful. And so with that said, I asked 60 00:03:56,920 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 1: them how they were doing. You would get that expected 61 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:01,600 Speaker 1: like this is not how I hope things would go, 62 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 1: And I would say the thing that I love to say, 63 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 1: which is that you didn't come this far to only 64 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 1: come this far, and right now is your opportunity to 65 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:12,720 Speaker 1: take back the control that you have to go after 66 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:16,719 Speaker 1: the rest of your potential because you've already done a 67 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:19,360 Speaker 1: hell of a lot and you've just got this little 68 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 1: bit left to do, whether or not you're running a marathon, 69 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 1: whatever you've got going on. I think that that's really important, right, 70 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:30,159 Speaker 1: is understanding that at any given moment, you have the 71 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:34,480 Speaker 1: power to both come back to come and also grab 72 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 1: hold of your emotions. We all have feelings, right, and 73 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,799 Speaker 1: oftentimes these feelings can feel super out of control because 74 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:45,240 Speaker 1: that is that's what it's like to feel, But we 75 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 1: are in charge of how we respond and react to 76 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 1: those feelings. And I can't tell you how meaningful it 77 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 1: was to me. After the race was finished and I 78 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 1: jumped in with a handful of different friends and gave 79 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:00,840 Speaker 1: them my little pep talk, they reached out to me 80 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 1: and they said that was the thing, that was the 81 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:06,720 Speaker 1: thing that I needed to hear, even after what I 82 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 1: didn't want, I had to be reminded that I am 83 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:16,120 Speaker 1: in control. So a little special moment that I exchanged 84 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:18,040 Speaker 1: with them, a really special moment to be there over 85 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 1: the weekend, and man, this comes out on Friday. I'm 86 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 1: gonna be running a decent jungle miles on Saturday, hoping 87 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 1: to see what happens with me, how it feels, make 88 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:30,479 Speaker 1: some decisions about what I may or may not do 89 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 1: in New York. And so just remember that right you 90 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 1: are in charge of how you respond to your feelings. 91 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 1: My prompter you this week what is one way you 92 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:47,600 Speaker 1: can uplift someone in your life? Again, what is one 93 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:50,120 Speaker 1: way that you can uplift someone that you care about 94 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:56,599 Speaker 1: in your life? Maybe this weekend. Now a listener question. 95 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:00,640 Speaker 2: Hi, Emily, this is Shelly. I live in I'm a 96 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:03,280 Speaker 2: big fan of your podcasts, and my question for you 97 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:07,560 Speaker 2: is around running two marathons close together. I ran Boston 98 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:10,640 Speaker 2: on Monday, It's a great day, and I'll be running 99 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:14,040 Speaker 2: New York on November seventh. And I've never attempted to 100 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:17,000 Speaker 2: run two marathons this close together. So just wondering if 101 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:21,840 Speaker 2: you have any tips or recommendations on recovery versus maintaining 102 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 2: fitness for the next few weeks. Thanks so much, Shelly. 103 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:30,240 Speaker 1: Congrats on Boston. That's so awesome. This tugs at my 104 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:33,680 Speaker 1: heart strings. Okay, although I would not recommend necessarily that 105 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:36,480 Speaker 1: people do back to back marathons, if you have been 106 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:38,600 Speaker 1: listening to the show before, then you know that I 107 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 1: too have done this crazy thing once, because I am 108 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 1: truly just that a little bit out of my mind. 109 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:47,720 Speaker 1: I once ran the Dublin and New York marathons back 110 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 1: to back within a six day period. It was a 111 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:54,360 Speaker 1: truly crazy experience. I wrote about it in Runner's World 112 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:56,120 Speaker 1: on linked to that article in the show notes here. 113 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 1: But so all this to say, I have a soft 114 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:03,960 Speaker 1: spot for you, my friend. My tips and tricks for 115 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 1: doing them back to back. I don't think that these 116 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 1: are tips and tricks that anyone, really many people are 117 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 1: going to put into practice. But most importantly is listen 118 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:13,440 Speaker 1: to your body as they say that quote. I think 119 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 1: it's the hay is in the barn, like you've already 120 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,720 Speaker 1: done the work and you should not be racing back 121 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:23,000 Speaker 1: to back marathons. So when I did my back to back, 122 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:26,200 Speaker 1: I raced, so to speak, Dublin and I went on 123 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 1: what I called at the time, but I know it's 124 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:31,400 Speaker 1: a bigger effort what I called a fun run in 125 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 1: New York. So I didn't think for a second about 126 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:37,280 Speaker 1: pace in New York. Six days after running Dublin. All 127 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: I did was think about having a good time. I 128 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 1: ran it with a friend. We took selfies everywhere, I 129 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 1: hugged people everywhere, and that's just what it was. So 130 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:50,200 Speaker 1: all this to say, take time right now to recover 131 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 1: and give your body really what it needs and listen, 132 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:57,120 Speaker 1: there was absolutely no need, aside from some base mileage, 133 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:00,320 Speaker 1: for you to be going and out and tackling easy 134 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 1: interval workouts are really like doing tons and tons of load. Rather, 135 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:08,040 Speaker 1: make sure that you get in and talk to a pt, 136 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:10,720 Speaker 1: address any issues that you may be facing. Make sure 137 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:14,200 Speaker 1: that you're taking time beyond just like you know, non 138 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:17,880 Speaker 1: active recovery, to maybe integrate some more cross training into 139 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 1: your routine and just keep your body moving, because that's 140 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:22,520 Speaker 1: really what's important here, is just making sure that you're 141 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 1: keeping up that aerobic activity so that you feel comfortable 142 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:28,880 Speaker 1: in your body when you tow the starting line in 143 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 1: New York again. Back to back marathons not something necessarily 144 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 1: recommend for everyone at all, And if that is something 145 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:39,960 Speaker 1: that you're interested in pursuing, I definitely definitely would recommend 146 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:42,160 Speaker 1: that you reach out to an expert, like a physical 147 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:44,720 Speaker 1: therapist like our run coach, to talk about your goals 148 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:48,520 Speaker 1: and get a plan specific to you so that you 149 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:53,319 Speaker 1: can take care of you and your body. Who that's it. 150 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 1: Big weekend on deck, y'all, keep your fingers crossed for me. 151 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:00,439 Speaker 1: I'm hoping. I don't know. I'm just open. 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