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Speaker 1: Hey everyone, Emily Badi here. You are listening to five

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Speaker 1: Minute Friday from Hurdle. Happy for the July everyone. I

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Speaker 1: don't usually release on holidays, but it's been a second AKA.

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Speaker 1: This is exactly what I'm going to talk about today.

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Speaker 1: Last week I was doing the most. I get the

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Speaker 1: opportunity to do a lot of different things that I enjoy,

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Speaker 1: from writing and editing to podcasting and hosting, and I

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Speaker 1: did so many of those things last week. I was

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Speaker 1: in Paris for Breaking, which I was reporting on for

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Speaker 1: Marie Claire as a writer, and I was also podcasting

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Speaker 1: them while I was there, and working through emails and

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Speaker 1: edits on other projects that I'm working on, and planning

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Speaker 1: months ahead at the same time, and taking meetings and

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Speaker 1: so many things. And it came to be Wednesday, and

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Speaker 1: I got to this point when I realized that something

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Speaker 1: had to give, and I am bad at that. I

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Speaker 1: am bad at letting something fall by the wayside when

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Speaker 1: I commit to something like I am all in. And

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Speaker 1: as many of you know, I have a newsletter that

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Speaker 1: comes out every Friday.

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Speaker 2: It's called the Weekly Hurdle.

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Speaker 1: And upon evaluating all the different things that I was

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Speaker 1: doing and all of the obligations that I had. I

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Speaker 1: made the conscious decision that I had to let the

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Speaker 1: weekly hurdle go last week.

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Speaker 2: It had to happen.

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Speaker 1: I thought about the repercussions, I thought about the other

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Speaker 1: things on my to do list, and I made the

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Speaker 1: decision that this was the thing that I was going

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Speaker 1: to let slide.

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Speaker 2: And I got home on I.

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Speaker 1: Ended up getting home on Monday because they canceled my

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Speaker 1: flight on Sunday, which is a completely different story. But

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Speaker 1: when I got home on Monday, I had two meetings

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Speaker 1: back to back. I got home to my apartment around

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Speaker 1: twelve thirty in the afternoon, two meetings back to back.

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Speaker 2: I hit a deadline that I needed to hit.

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Speaker 1: I finished something for the podcast, like I was doing

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Speaker 1: a lot of things, and I remember thinking in that moment, Wow,

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Speaker 1: like you did it. There were so many things that

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Speaker 1: were on your plate going into last week, going into

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Speaker 1: the international travel, and I gave myself the grace to

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Speaker 1: choose what I could do, execute what I could do

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Speaker 1: to the best of my ability, and release the rest.

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Speaker 1: I have been in so many different phases, at so

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Speaker 1: many different points where my best I would get down

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Speaker 1: on that being not good enough. And now I recognize

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Speaker 1: that all I could do is the best I can

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Speaker 1: with what I've got. And so last week that's exactly

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Speaker 1: what it looked like. It looked like no newsletter, and

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Speaker 1: next week it will look entirely different. And that grace

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Speaker 1: is something that has grown with me. That grace is

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Speaker 1: like a muscle. It is something that I am strengthening.

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Speaker 1: How does a muscle strengthen? You give it something to

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Speaker 1: push up against. My grace with myself is pushing up

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Speaker 1: against challenge and adversity and moments where I feel frustrated,

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Speaker 1: right and in those moments, it is growing, it is developing,

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Speaker 1: and for that I am so grateful.

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Speaker 2: You've got to be easy on yourself. We only have

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Speaker 2: this one shot. Right.

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Speaker 1: Not to be corny or anything, but there is no

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Speaker 1: use spending your time shoulding on yourself, woulding on myself

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Speaker 1: saying I could have done something this way. I refuse

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Speaker 1: to live my life like that. I accept that in

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Speaker 1: all circumstances, I have the best intentions, and so I

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Speaker 1: exercised those intentions last week. I chose myself. I chose

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Speaker 1: my colm and for that I am better for it.

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Speaker 1: My question for you this week is where could you

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Speaker 1: be offering yourself some more grace. It's hard. I get it.

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Speaker 1: I've been there. Where could you be a bit easier

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Speaker 1: on yourself? And what would that look like in practice?

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Speaker 1: And now a listener question. Hey, Emily, I've been your

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Speaker 1: listener and follower for quite some time, and even to

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Speaker 1: say hi in person a few times when you visited Boston.

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Speaker 1: I am also a runner, and even after ten plus

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Speaker 1: years of running marathons, I still struggle to balance strength

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Speaker 1: training and running. It's always in either or for me.

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Speaker 1: If my running is going well, it's almost inevitable that

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Speaker 1: my lifting sessions will drop to zero or maybe one

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Speaker 1: per week with no progression. Following you on Instagram, I

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Speaker 1: can see that you are able to successfully combine the

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Speaker 1: two and it's very impressive to me. So my question

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Speaker 1: is can you describe how you did it and what

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Speaker 1: are the principles you follow. I've been working with a

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Speaker 1: strength trainer tends to overload my legs and my running suffers.

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Speaker 1: Any advice on this, thanks so much, best, Svetlana. So, Svetlana,

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Speaker 1: great question, and honestly, I want you to know that

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Speaker 1: you are not alone in this You know how many

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Speaker 1: I mean this was me. I wasn't strength training at

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Speaker 1: all at all until I had to because running was

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Speaker 1: taken from me. And so what I've done over the

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Speaker 1: last year is really prioritize strength, but really take a

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Speaker 1: step back to zoom out on my goals. Right now,

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Speaker 1: my goals are twofold one. I'm having a lot of

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Speaker 1: fun chasing my own potential on the run, and I'm

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Speaker 1: also having a lot of fun chasing my own potential

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Speaker 1: in the gym. It is hard to do both of

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Speaker 1: those things simultaneously. The best way that I can is

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Speaker 1: by creating an open avenue communication with my strength coach

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Speaker 1: about where I'm at with my running goals. So I

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Speaker 1: right now strength train for days a week. I run

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Speaker 1: fortays a week. As you can tell, they are only

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Speaker 1: seven days a week, which means that one or two

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Speaker 1: of those days, depending on what's happening, might be a double.

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Speaker 1: To that note, I work on my schedule in a

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Speaker 1: way that I am not over doing it on my legs.

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Speaker 1: So if I'm doing an interval session which is leg heavy,

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Speaker 1: I will try to do my life strength workout on

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Speaker 1: group of muscles, that muscle group time to recover and repair.

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Speaker 1: Fun fact, your muscles create small tears when you are

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Speaker 1: strength training. It's totally natural, something to worry about. But

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Speaker 1: those typically need at least forty hours to repair themselves,

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Speaker 1: and in that act of repairing themselves, they get stronger.

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Speaker 2: It's important. It's good.

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Speaker 1: It's good, I promise. So I'm giving you all this information.

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Speaker 1: I'm giving you some insight into how I operate. What

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Speaker 1: does this mean for you? It means that, dependent on

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Speaker 1: your goals, it will be helpful to talk one on

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Speaker 1: one with a trainer. I love that Svetlana is saying

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Speaker 1: that she has a strength trainer and a running coach, right,

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Speaker 1: So communicate with those people about what you're excited about,

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Speaker 1: and those individuals might need to communicate with one another

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Speaker 1: as well. I cannot even stress how helpful it has

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Speaker 1: been for me to go to physical therapy, to talk

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Speaker 1: to my guy Luke and then have him give me

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Speaker 1: information that I can then pass along to my strength coach.

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Speaker 1: It's so helpful and above all else, at the end

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Speaker 1: of the day, listen to your body, because when you've

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Speaker 1: got a bunch of different goals, there are going to

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Speaker 1: be times where you can't do things as planned and

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Speaker 1: that's okay. This goes back to our topic of having

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Speaker 1: grace with ourselves. So listen, don't judge yourself, do the

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Speaker 1: best you can with what you have, and take things

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Speaker 1: one day at a time.

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Speaker 2: I hope that helps. I hope my insight helps.

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Speaker 1: And like I said above all else here, having your

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Speaker 1: expert team communicate with one another and listening to your

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Speaker 1: body will be majorly helpful in the pursuit of the

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Speaker 1: things that excite you. Make sure you're following along with

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Speaker 1: Hurdle Over at Hurdle podcast, I'm over at Emily a

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Speaker 1: Body another hurdle conquered.

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Speaker 2: Catch you guys next time.

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Speaker 1: I do in my heir