1 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: Hey, hurdlers, it's Emily popping in with five minute Friday. 2 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:28,280 Speaker 1: I've thought about renaming this episode because it's never actually 3 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:32,040 Speaker 1: only five minutes, but I mean, it rolls off the tongue. 4 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:34,239 Speaker 1: It doesn't seem to be a sticking point for any 5 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:37,680 Speaker 1: of you, so I think we just roll with it. Also, 6 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 1: I just need to say this. There's like a cute 7 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:44,240 Speaker 1: older gentleman that lives like on the same floor as 8 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 1: me across the street, and usually on Thursdays, definitely on Fridays, 9 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:56,760 Speaker 1: at four o'clock, he starts jamming out to music on 10 00:00:56,800 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 1: his balcony like loud enough for literally the entire blo 11 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:03,480 Speaker 1: to hear it. And I don't want to be the 12 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 1: cynical person that says this can be a little bit distracting. 13 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:12,320 Speaker 1: I still have some stuff to get done. But I 14 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 1: am definitely that person right now. Am I horrible? 15 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 2: Anyway? This week, I'm talking to you about a thought 16 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 2: I had this morning. 17 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 1: I was digging through my laundry, as one does when 18 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 1: they're trying to find a certain pair of shorts that 19 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:32,319 Speaker 1: they swore were in their dresser and they're not there. 20 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:35,600 Speaker 1: I wasn't digging through the laundry because I was going 21 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 1: to wear the shorts if they were in the laundry. 22 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:39,839 Speaker 1: But part of me kind of thought that I may 23 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:44,319 Speaker 1: have dropped said shorts when I was doing my actual 24 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 1: laundry the other day, so the anxious person inside of 25 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 1: me wanted to find the shorts. Anyway, I'm digging through 26 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 1: the laundry it's like six am, and I can't find them, 27 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:56,760 Speaker 1: and so I decide that I'm going to wear my 28 00:01:56,880 --> 00:01:59,760 Speaker 1: second favorite pair of shorts, and I put them on, 29 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 1: and I'm like hustling and bustling around my apartment trying 30 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 1: to get myself together before I want to be out 31 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:08,680 Speaker 1: of the apartment within like the next ten minutes. And 32 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:11,239 Speaker 1: as I take a quick second to pause and drink 33 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:15,040 Speaker 1: my small espresso cup, I have this moment where I 34 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 1: realized that it is almost the end of October and 35 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:23,239 Speaker 1: I am still wearing shorts, and not just that I'm 36 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 1: like wearing shorts that like I'm preferred to wear shorts, 37 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 1: And my thoughts kept going, as I will explain to 38 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 1: you that I started to wonder, like, when did you 39 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:37,959 Speaker 1: become this person that wanted to wear shorts all the time? 40 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 2: Like that has never been me. I have never. 41 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:46,080 Speaker 1: Until you know twenty twenty the kind of person that 42 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 1: felt comfortable wearing shorts often. I certainly wasn't reaching for 43 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 1: them in October. Nevertheless, I was still not really reaching 44 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:58,120 Speaker 1: for them all that often in the summer months. And 45 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 1: when I reflect on this, I start to wonder or 46 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 1: ask myself, like, what has changed? And I've come to 47 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: realize that two things have really changed, if I'm being honest. 48 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:13,920 Speaker 1: The first is that although I had found shorts in 49 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:16,919 Speaker 1: years past that I liked, I feel like I finally 50 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:19,080 Speaker 1: hit the nail on the head when it comes to 51 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:23,360 Speaker 1: the few Goldilocks options that I have in my rotation, 52 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 1: and I'll put links to all of those in the 53 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 1: show notes. Which is funny because I thought that I 54 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:32,239 Speaker 1: had some good shorts before and I would wear them 55 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 1: and pair it with like bodyguide or Megababe thigh chafe 56 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:40,160 Speaker 1: or whatever. But still, like, I never felt one hundred 57 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 1: percent comfortable, always worrying that I was going to get 58 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 1: like ridiculously uncomfortable chafing. And if I could prevent this 59 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 1: from happening, then why wouldn't I want to do that 60 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 1: by wearing Capriz. Well, spoiler alert, wearing Capriz can be 61 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 1: pretty uncomfortable, especially if it is hot outside. And I 62 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 1: have always felt this way, whether I Emily circa two 63 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 1: thousand and seven that was tipping the scalet over two 64 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 1: hundred pounds or the Emily now, I just have always 65 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 1: had what I love to refer to as these thunder 66 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:15,120 Speaker 1: thighs that just didn't ever really make me feel super 67 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:16,880 Speaker 1: comfortable when it came to working out. 68 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 2: I digress. 69 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:21,919 Speaker 1: I think the biggest difference now though, and why I 70 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:25,360 Speaker 1: am wearing shorts, and something that I'm thinking many of 71 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:27,719 Speaker 1: you will be able to relate to, is that I 72 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:30,000 Speaker 1: just got to a point where I wanted to feel 73 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:33,320 Speaker 1: comfortable and I stopped worrying so much about what someone 74 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:38,120 Speaker 1: else might think about me wearing shorts. And in this realization, 75 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:40,719 Speaker 1: I also kind of came to terms with this idea 76 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaker 1: that maybe this was all in my head, that maybe 77 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 1: no one else actually had a thought or an opinion 78 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:51,839 Speaker 1: of me wearing shorts at all, and the story that 79 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:56,080 Speaker 1: I was telling myself was really just based in the 80 00:04:56,240 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 1: old Emily, in the Emily that wasn't comfortable in her body. 81 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 1: Not to say that I still don't have days where 82 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:08,840 Speaker 1: I struggle with my personal body acceptance but now I 83 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:11,680 Speaker 1: know how good it feels to feel comfortable on my 84 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 1: run because I am cool. I know how great it 85 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 1: is to feel confident when I'm running down the street, 86 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:22,480 Speaker 1: thinking about my pace and how great that is, and 87 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 1: not worrying about what people might think about the way 88 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 1: that I look. And so I just had this little realization, 89 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 1: you know, this morning, thinking to myself how great it 90 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:38,280 Speaker 1: is and how far I've come, and how I'm sure 91 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:42,480 Speaker 1: that this is certainly something that many of you can 92 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:46,679 Speaker 1: relate to, regardless of your size or your body shape, 93 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 1: that we all at times struggle to feel confident and 94 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:53,880 Speaker 1: comfortable in our own skin. And you know, lately I'm 95 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 1: feeling really positive about it. My prompt for you this week. 96 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:01,720 Speaker 1: So the story I was telling myself, as I just referenced, 97 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 1: was that other people must have felt some kind of 98 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:06,800 Speaker 1: way about me wearing shorts, And really, I believe that 99 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:11,120 Speaker 1: that is just a story. So what story have you 100 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 1: been telling yourself that might not be all that true? 101 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:15,679 Speaker 2: Again? 102 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:19,880 Speaker 1: What story have you been telling yourself that might not 103 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:25,320 Speaker 1: be all that true? Highlights of the week. All the 104 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:28,520 Speaker 1: links of this stuff will be in the show notes. 105 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:32,479 Speaker 1: First up, read how to wash sneakers in the washing 106 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:35,480 Speaker 1: machine and by hand. I get so many DMS about this, 107 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:39,279 Speaker 1: especially I need to note this. When I wear white 108 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 1: sneakers and lace them up on social media, nine times 109 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 1: out of ten in real life, those white sneakers do 110 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:48,279 Speaker 1: not look as white as they just magically appear to 111 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:53,680 Speaker 1: be on social I digress. Still, it is something that 112 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 1: I do. I do clean my sneakers from time to time. 113 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 1: And Woman's Health has this awesome article that gives you 114 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:01,800 Speaker 1: all the tips you need to wash yours on your 115 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:06,479 Speaker 1: own hot tip quick takeaway, never ever, ever, ever put. 116 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:07,080 Speaker 2: Them in the dryer. 117 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 1: Another read for you an article about a man that 118 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:15,080 Speaker 1: is ordering ice cream. I kid you, not at every 119 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 1: US McDonald's to see which machines are broken. This makes 120 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:22,960 Speaker 1: me laugh. This makes me laugh so much because when 121 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 1: I was going through like the summer where I was 122 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:29,400 Speaker 1: learning to love running and I was working really hard 123 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 1: to eat better, the McDonald's dollar cone, which is actually 124 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:37,240 Speaker 1: like no longer a dollar at any McDonald's you go to, 125 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:41,520 Speaker 1: but the dollar cone was my favorite snack. I loved it. 126 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:44,400 Speaker 1: I still love it. I know that it's not the 127 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 1: best thing for me, but it is delicious and refreshing, 128 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:51,240 Speaker 1: and so it cracks me up because this man totally 129 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 1: is onto something and that these machines are often broken 130 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 1: and the public deserves to know where they can get 131 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 1: their cones from. Listen Get Shit Done. Seven habits to 132 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:06,040 Speaker 1: increase productivity. It's a theme that we're talking about a 133 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 1: lot on the show lately, and here in the newsletter 134 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:12,360 Speaker 1: is feeling stuck, feeling unproductive, feeling like you could be 135 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 1: doing better. And I thought this twenty minute listen from 136 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 1: the Mindset Mentor was really really helpful in kind of 137 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:23,400 Speaker 1: aiding me to get out of my own way. Worth 138 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:25,520 Speaker 1: checking out. If you are a Whoop user, Woop has 139 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 1: a new dashboard that I think is super helpful. It 140 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 1: allowed me to be able to locate other groups that 141 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:34,280 Speaker 1: I wanted to be a part of and kind of 142 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:37,960 Speaker 1: gamify the whole concept of strain and sleep and recovery, 143 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:40,480 Speaker 1: and I ten out of ten would recommend it. If 144 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:44,240 Speaker 1: you are a Whooper, I definitely want you to join 145 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:46,920 Speaker 1: the Hurdler's Group. 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First, I 155 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:23,320 Speaker 1: can't believe, as someone who swore that she would never 156 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:27,439 Speaker 1: do a virtual race, that a virtual marathon is in 157 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:28,400 Speaker 1: my immediate future. 158 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 2: But here we are. I feel like many of you 159 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:33,320 Speaker 2: aren't actually surprised at all. 160 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:38,280 Speaker 1: I am raising money for an organization back on my feet. 161 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 1: They are trying to combat homelessness through the power of 162 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:47,199 Speaker 1: running and community building. It's an organization that I volunteered 163 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:49,600 Speaker 1: with here in New York City before, and it would 164 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:51,680 Speaker 1: mean the world to me if you just could spare 165 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:55,120 Speaker 1: a few dollars to support. I know that you know 166 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 1: regular marathons have their fair share of challenges, and that 167 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:01,000 Speaker 1: virtual marathons certainly have them as well. 168 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:05,480 Speaker 2: So when my motivation might be waning just a little bit. 169 00:10:05,559 --> 00:10:08,960 Speaker 1: Come next Saturday, I will think about all of you 170 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:12,520 Speaker 1: and your support and it'll keep me going. So thank 171 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:15,400 Speaker 1: you so much for even considering it, and I also 172 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 1: will be more than happy to accept all of your 173 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 1: well wishes via the DM. Of course, I'm always available 174 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:26,000 Speaker 1: for you over at Hurdle Podcasts and over at Emily 175 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 1: a Body. Last little bit of housekeeping for this week. 176 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 1: If you have yet to rate and review Hurdle, this 177 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:35,000 Speaker 1: is it. 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