1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:04,200 Speaker 1: Marathon for two is the public event in between the 2 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:07,680 Speaker 1: Men's Olympic Marathon and the Women's Olympic Marathon. It's one 3 00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:09,800 Speaker 1: of the first times ever the public have been invited 4 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:13,480 Speaker 1: to be on the course, the same course in between 5 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:16,760 Speaker 1: two events. I want to know why on earth people 6 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:18,520 Speaker 1: are traveling from around the world to do this, Like, 7 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:20,960 Speaker 1: what's there? Why for being there? Because I think there's 8 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:22,800 Speaker 1: going to be some really incredible stories. 9 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 2: Hey everyone, Emily Abadi here. You are listening to another 10 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:45,360 Speaker 2: installment of our limited series on Hurdle called Going for It. 11 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:48,239 Speaker 2: It's a monumental time for women in sport, as more 12 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:51,479 Speaker 2: and more eyes are rightfully paying attention to her in 13 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 2: pursuit of what lights her on fire. Leading up to Paris, 14 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:57,639 Speaker 2: I'm ringing conversations to the forefront from women who will 15 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 2: be involved in this year's games, from athletes to journalists 16 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 2: and today's guest, perhaps your favorite Peloton instructor. I am 17 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:10,679 Speaker 2: talking about the one and only Beck's gentry. You know 18 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 2: her from her teaching at Peloton and perhaps her new 19 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 2: gig as a podcaster for New York Roadrunners Set the 20 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 2: Pace podcast presented by Peloton. In today's episode, Bex talks 21 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 2: about what she's getting up to in Paris, her gig 22 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 2: with NBC, and how she feels to be towing the 23 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:34,680 Speaker 2: line for marathon Poor two, which, for those of you 24 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 2: that don't know, an evening start on the exact same 25 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 2: route and on the same day as the men's Olympic event. 26 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:44,559 Speaker 2: In just a few hours before the woman's event, Bex 27 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:47,920 Speaker 2: will be running the Olympic marathon course. 28 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:48,640 Speaker 3: Now. 29 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 2: Because she is a dear friend of mine, we talk 30 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 2: about many other things as well, but I absolutely loved 31 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 2: having her back in the studio and I'm honored to 32 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 2: bring this conversation to the feed. Make sure you're follwing 33 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 2: along with us over on social It's at Hurdle podcast. 34 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 2: I am over at Emily you body and with that, 35 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 2: let's get to it. Let's get to hurdling. 36 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:16,280 Speaker 3: Today. 37 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 2: I'm sitting down with Beck's gentry. You know her and 38 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:22,359 Speaker 2: love her as a peloton instructor. She's also now a 39 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:24,919 Speaker 2: podcaster set the Pace podcast. 40 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 3: How's that going for you? 41 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 1: Phenomenal? 42 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:27,399 Speaker 3: Yeah? 43 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 1: Like you, my girl. You get to sit down and 44 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 1: talk with people who you adore, who inspire you on 45 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:37,119 Speaker 1: a daily basis, who you are starstruck by, Like it's 46 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:40,960 Speaker 1: never ending, and you get to learn and admire. It's great. 47 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:41,680 Speaker 3: I love that. 48 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:43,520 Speaker 2: I love to hear that you're loving that because it 49 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 2: is a new thing, and new things can be a 50 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 2: bit overwhelming as well. 51 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 1: It took some time, I think, to find my flow, 52 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 1: but I'm definitely in it now. Yeah, definitely. Like hold back, brob, 53 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:53,520 Speaker 1: I got this. 54 00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:56,800 Speaker 3: She's coming for you. She's coming for you. 55 00:02:56,960 --> 00:03:01,400 Speaker 2: Do you feel like getting a quaint with podcasting was 56 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:04,959 Speaker 2: easier or more difficult than getting comfortable being in front 57 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:06,239 Speaker 2: of the camera at peloton? 58 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 1: Oh? Good question. Easier, I think, but because I didn't 59 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:14,359 Speaker 1: have to look in ten different directions whilst running, right, 60 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:16,639 Speaker 1: that's probably was always the hottest thing. 61 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's helpful that you don't have to run wall podcasting. 62 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:22,840 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you wait, you wait, She's like, just. 63 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 2: You wait till they give me a microphone and you're 64 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:27,040 Speaker 2: training with all of these people for the New York 65 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 2: City Marathon. Yeh, She's like, it's loading. This isn't foreshadowing 66 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 2: now we know. Well, I'm so excited about your new 67 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 2: venture and always I love being able to sit down 68 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 2: with you because you're in my bud and we're here 69 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 2: today to talk about what's going on for you in 70 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:45,840 Speaker 2: this chapter of heading to Paris. 71 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, wow, wow, I can't believe it's finally here. 72 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 1: It's finally here. It is. We're like two weeks away. 73 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 1: Three weeks away? Where are we? I know it's weeks 74 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:59,360 Speaker 1: two weeks Yeah, oh e they I so kind of 75 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 1: get my head around the fact that I'm going to 76 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 1: be going to Paris for the Games. We'll be able 77 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 1: to see and witness greatness in front of us and 78 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:09,720 Speaker 1: absorb it. 79 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, like it's absurd. 80 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 1: I lived in London when the Games were on and 81 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 1: I didn't go, and I'm slightly scattered crowds, so yeah, 82 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:20,919 Speaker 1: I'll have to back up a little bit at times. 83 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 1: But the good thing is the main thing I will 84 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 1: be doing by myself will be the marathon Port two, 85 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:29,279 Speaker 1: and I'm moving so that's fine. I'm just moving through 86 00:04:29,279 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 1: the crowd. 87 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:31,400 Speaker 3: Okay. 88 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:33,839 Speaker 2: So let's kind of break down the different things that 89 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 2: you will be doing while in Paris. You just mentioned 90 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 2: the marathon Port two. Talk to me a little bit 91 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 2: about that. How you're feeling. 92 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 1: So here's the thing my mindset at the beginning of 93 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:47,240 Speaker 1: this year, unbeknownst to most people on the other side, 94 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:52,120 Speaker 1: of my camera world, I Instagram and Peloton was changing 95 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:55,280 Speaker 1: my mindset to just getting it done, to being in 96 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:58,479 Speaker 1: that we're just going for a run. There is not 97 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:02,480 Speaker 1: any pace pressure on me anymore. And I think I 98 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:08,039 Speaker 1: subconsciously accepted that after I had Tallula, because so many 99 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 1: things were complete, like I think I may have run 100 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 1: my fastest marathon at the Olympic Trials, I had my baby, 101 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:16,920 Speaker 1: I put my body through all this other stuff and 102 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:19,560 Speaker 1: everything felt good, and I was just like, you know what, 103 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:21,880 Speaker 1: pace doesn't define me. That's when I came up with 104 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:23,760 Speaker 1: my mantra, forward is a pace. It doesn't matter. As 105 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:27,160 Speaker 1: long as you're moving forward, great, whatever the speed is, 106 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 1: that's your speed. And so I've had to let that 107 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 1: sit with me. This year Tokyo Marathon was the first 108 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:36,320 Speaker 1: time that I had to just be like, you're running, 109 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:39,320 Speaker 1: You're doing the distance, it's not about the time. That 110 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:43,720 Speaker 1: was really beautiful for me. So Marathon Part two is 111 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 1: the public event in between the Men's Olympic Marathon and 112 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 1: the Women's Olympic Marathon. It's one of the first times 113 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 1: ever the public have been invited to be on the 114 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:57,480 Speaker 1: course the same course in between two events. I mean, 115 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 1: if you know much about the Olympics. It's a very 116 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 1: high security, very closed off event. This very much still is. 117 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,680 Speaker 1: But I think it's wow that normal people get to 118 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 1: come and experience what the men have just run and 119 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:14,839 Speaker 1: the women will run the next morning. So I'm going 120 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 1: to be doing that with NBC. I will be out 121 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 1: on the course, running, talking, stopping, chatting, experiencing the tiny 122 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:29,080 Speaker 1: six point two at night with people from all over 123 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:30,599 Speaker 1: the world. I mean, I know, for my pearls on 124 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 1: leaderboard there's people from the US who are flocking over 125 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 1: there to see it. There's different distances. I think it's 126 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:39,560 Speaker 1: marathon down to five k that they're doing. So that's 127 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:42,159 Speaker 1: going to be the kind of the big bulk of it. 128 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:44,680 Speaker 1: The rest of it's going to be some social opportunities, 129 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:48,920 Speaker 1: talking to people, collaborating with NBC's other platform on her turf, 130 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:52,120 Speaker 1: and then there will be some commentary from me in 131 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:56,120 Speaker 1: some capacity on the women's marathon event, which is. 132 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:58,120 Speaker 3: My goodness, wow, so much to unpack here. 133 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:02,440 Speaker 2: First and foremost, I am obsessed with this mantra, for 134 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:05,920 Speaker 2: it is a pace I too, am certainly confident that 135 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:10,440 Speaker 2: my fastest marathons are behind me. That is entirely fine 136 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 2: and great with me. And I say that firmly. You 137 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:15,880 Speaker 2: also said it firmly. But talk to me a little 138 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:18,160 Speaker 2: bit about how you got to this place where you 139 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 2: believe it, because I think that there is a hope 140 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 2: or a or a feeling you want to embrace this 141 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 2: knowing that it's like this isn't what I'm meant to 142 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:32,960 Speaker 2: do anymore in terms of I know that running to 143 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:36,320 Speaker 2: run fast isn't what feels good for me anymore. Running 144 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 2: fast in its definition, as it evolves with me as 145 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 2: I progress in my life, is one thing. 146 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:44,280 Speaker 3: But I know that running. 147 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:46,720 Speaker 2: The way that I did five years ago does it 148 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 2: just doesn't feel right for me. Talk to me about 149 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 2: your journey about getting to this place where you feel 150 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 2: confident in that sentence, because I know it wasn't an 151 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 2: easy one. 152 00:07:55,680 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 1: No, it was humbling. The journey to feel telling it, 153 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 1: going to agreeing with it was huge. And I say 154 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 1: that because I had to learn grace. And I think 155 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:16,800 Speaker 1: that me before Tallula was really mean to myself. I 156 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 1: punished myself in many ways of past things in my life, 157 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 1: and I would use running as such a release of 158 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:27,480 Speaker 1: like you screwed up that in the past. You've got 159 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 1: to keep running. And I think it's not It's probably 160 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 1: not talked about very much, but I think runners, when 161 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:36,559 Speaker 1: we push ourselves, we have some really dark conversations, and 162 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:39,840 Speaker 1: I'm sure people discuss it with their therapists. I certainly do, 163 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:43,839 Speaker 1: and we all unpack those things privately, and they're probably 164 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:45,079 Speaker 1: not things you want to discuss. Like you and I 165 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:46,719 Speaker 1: wouldn't sit down with a glass of wine and I'll 166 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 1: be like, hey, guess what I thought about when I 167 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 1: was running today, and you'd be like, I'm gonna leave. 168 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:54,680 Speaker 3: I would never leave you, never. 169 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:58,720 Speaker 1: But it's that like, we use a lot of and 170 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:01,600 Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this word, please take it in the way. 171 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:06,319 Speaker 1: I mean weapons to push ourselves and challenge ourselves and 172 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:10,960 Speaker 1: get really uncomfortable. And I think, as I referred to 173 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:14,280 Speaker 1: earlier after the trials, after Tallula, there were so many 174 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:17,400 Speaker 1: boxes that were ticked in my mind and I felt 175 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:22,400 Speaker 1: this like this joy, this happiness, and I no longer 176 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:26,720 Speaker 1: felt this need to push myself to that limit anymore, 177 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:31,480 Speaker 1: because when I got that uncomfortable, I just wanted to 178 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:33,720 Speaker 1: get off the tread or finish my runt and come 179 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 1: back and cuddle my baby, or sit down, or I 180 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 1: think about the trials and be like, no, I don't 181 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:41,200 Speaker 1: want to go back to those five am, tears on 182 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:44,720 Speaker 1: the tread, tears afterwards, tears outside. I don't need to 183 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:47,959 Speaker 1: go back there. I am okay with that box being 184 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:51,040 Speaker 1: ticked and that box having been ticked in twenty twenty one, 185 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:54,679 Speaker 1: and it doesn't need to come back. And that filled 186 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:58,679 Speaker 1: me up so much in my post natal journey and 187 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:01,920 Speaker 1: now even my training for Tokyo. In my brain, I 188 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:03,599 Speaker 1: was like, you got to train harder, you got to 189 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 1: train harder. And I didn't and I didn't and I didn't. 190 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 1: I didn't really do speed work. I did distance. And 191 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:13,080 Speaker 1: that was part of the coming to the agreement with 192 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:19,120 Speaker 1: myself of just keep moving, finish twenty six point two, 193 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:24,400 Speaker 1: don't worry about the time, keep going forwards. And I 194 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:26,440 Speaker 1: tell you, when I got to twenty four miles, I 195 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 1: mean you and I were out there and it if 196 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:33,440 Speaker 1: somebody had told me I could leave that race at 197 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:36,640 Speaker 1: twenty four miles and there would be no consequences. I'd 198 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 1: never feel any regret and everything would be sort of deleted. 199 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:42,240 Speaker 3: I would have done it, amen, I would have done it. 200 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 3: It's a hard day, yeah, I want it out. 201 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:47,760 Speaker 1: I was. I couldn't have given a teeny tiny rats 202 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 1: bum that there was only two miles left to go. 203 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:53,320 Speaker 1: I want it out, And at that point I was 204 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:56,040 Speaker 1: just like, I don't care about the time anymore. This 205 00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:59,640 Speaker 1: is great and it was so Yeah, it just it's 206 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:02,200 Speaker 1: taken a while, but now I know, like going to 207 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:05,240 Speaker 1: Paris running that race, I'm not going to look at 208 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:09,080 Speaker 1: my watch training for my next challenge. I can't look 209 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:12,800 Speaker 1: at my watch because we all know to run a 210 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:16,920 Speaker 1: fast marathon, To run any marathon is depleting on the body. 211 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:19,560 Speaker 1: To train really hard, to run faster and faster and 212 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:25,360 Speaker 1: faster consecutively is very very challenging on the body. And 213 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:27,960 Speaker 1: some people do it. I've done it, like most of 214 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 1: my marathons work consecutive PR after PR. I'm not. I'm 215 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:32,720 Speaker 1: not game for that any Yeah. 216 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:35,000 Speaker 2: I love I love looking at your smile as you 217 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:38,000 Speaker 2: talk about this because it has been a journey, yes, 218 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:41,680 Speaker 2: but also you seem so at peace with it now 219 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:45,079 Speaker 2: and that makes me so genuinely happy for you. And 220 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:47,679 Speaker 2: it's definitely something that's so relatable because I'm sure a 221 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:50,120 Speaker 2: lot of people listening to this, whether or not it 222 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:53,120 Speaker 2: has to do with running, right, we are always competing 223 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:56,240 Speaker 2: with ourselves. We're always dealing with the way that we 224 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:59,440 Speaker 2: speak to ourselves, and so it is up to each 225 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 2: of us in individually to not only be mindful of 226 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:05,800 Speaker 2: what that conversation looks like, but then own up to 227 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:08,800 Speaker 2: it when you realize that maybe we should be shifting 228 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:09,920 Speaker 2: the tone here. 229 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:11,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure. 230 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:15,160 Speaker 2: I also am really excited about you talked about stopping 231 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:18,200 Speaker 2: and talking to people and doing all these social things. 232 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 3: So really, like, looking at the watch is a non option. 233 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:23,320 Speaker 1: It's a non option because the old me would have 234 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:26,640 Speaker 1: got incredibly frustrated about seeing a pace that I wasn't 235 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:31,440 Speaker 1: familiar with. And I think, I obviously I want to 236 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:33,560 Speaker 1: have the watch on because I want the GPS. 237 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:34,719 Speaker 3: And I was going to say, so. 238 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:38,719 Speaker 2: You want the watch on because Strabo didn't happen. Yeah, 239 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 2: pretty much totally. 240 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:43,040 Speaker 1: But I also want to remember of like the course. 241 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:45,280 Speaker 1: I want to look at that picture and be like, whoa, 242 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 1: I ran the Olympic marathon. Course didn't make the Olympics 243 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:50,719 Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, irony, And here I am 244 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:53,640 Speaker 1: out on the course. But no, I'm not going to 245 00:12:53,679 --> 00:12:57,839 Speaker 1: be trying to like steam between conversations to make up 246 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:01,320 Speaker 1: time now at all, because I really want to have 247 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:05,080 Speaker 1: good conversations with people. I want, genuinely I want to 248 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:07,599 Speaker 1: know why on Earth people are traveling from around the 249 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:10,079 Speaker 1: world to do this, Like what's their why for being there? 250 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:12,640 Speaker 1: Because I think there's going to be some really incredible stories. 251 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:17,680 Speaker 2: I am also interested in the mindset of running on 252 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:20,800 Speaker 2: the Olympic Marathon course as someone who has run the 253 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:24,200 Speaker 2: Olympic Marathon trials with the goal to ultimately run the 254 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:28,040 Speaker 2: Olympic Marathon. We've already unpacked a little bit about the 255 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:30,800 Speaker 2: feelings that go hand in hand with shifting the way 256 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:32,920 Speaker 2: you think about your running journey right now, But do 257 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:35,800 Speaker 2: you expect there to be emotion about the fact that 258 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:38,160 Speaker 2: you have this opportunity and it's so different than you 259 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 2: ever expected. 260 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:43,320 Speaker 1: It's funny. I sat down to start watching the new 261 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:47,960 Speaker 1: Netflix series Sprint, which is phenomenal by the way, and 262 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:50,920 Speaker 1: there was a lot of the footage is from Tokyo, 263 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:56,000 Speaker 1: and that would have been sort of my race in 264 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:59,560 Speaker 1: midst of COVID. You know, nobody around as per the trials, 265 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:04,000 Speaker 1: So I think there will be like this, this moment 266 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:09,280 Speaker 1: where I will allow my imagination to just probably as 267 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:11,600 Speaker 1: I come over the finish line, you know, just to 268 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:14,680 Speaker 1: look up and be like, this is what I could 269 00:14:14,679 --> 00:14:17,079 Speaker 1: have been like. But yeah, I'm still here, and I'm 270 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:20,240 Speaker 1: still grateful. I'm still running, you know, three years later 271 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:23,640 Speaker 1: after having a baby and I'm doing it. I'm still 272 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:25,720 Speaker 1: out here. But now I'm gonna let my little fency 273 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:27,960 Speaker 1: well just wander up for quick moments. 274 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:31,120 Speaker 2: Hey, I think that it's so beautiful when you take 275 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:35,240 Speaker 2: this step back and realize that this is the capacity 276 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:37,640 Speaker 2: that it was supposed to happen for you. Yeah, and 277 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:42,240 Speaker 2: how awesome is it that you have this opportunity to 278 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:45,280 Speaker 2: not only run the course with so many others, but 279 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 2: think about that you're running this marathon course as a 280 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 2: representative for nb C. 281 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:53,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, how does that feel when I say that back 282 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:54,200 Speaker 3: to you? 283 00:14:55,520 --> 00:14:58,400 Speaker 1: Not real it's a dream come true. Ever since I 284 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:02,720 Speaker 1: started doing come aryan broadcast for this sport that we love, 285 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:06,640 Speaker 1: nothing feels real until I get that microphone in my hand, 286 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:11,720 Speaker 1: until I'm sitting there actually talking. So I keep getting 287 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 1: my emails and credentials and all of these really exciting 288 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:18,520 Speaker 1: things from NBC part of the team, and I'm like, 289 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:21,080 Speaker 1: this is really happening. I'm sure you have that with 290 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 1: big events where you until you're in it, or even 291 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:26,960 Speaker 1: like a vacation you've planned forever. I am the worst 292 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:29,880 Speaker 1: person to holiday with because I'm like, it's not gonna happen. 293 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:32,920 Speaker 1: Something's getting wrong all the way until I am landed 294 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:36,760 Speaker 1: and at the destination. Yes, then I'm like, aed who 295 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:40,400 Speaker 1: we are? It's fine, But I just, you know, I 296 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:43,280 Speaker 1: just maybe that's the doubter in me, the catastrophized or 297 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:45,920 Speaker 1: as lost and calls. It just comes out when it's 298 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:48,200 Speaker 1: something that I really care passionately about and something that 299 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 1: I desperately want to happen. I'm like, know something someone, 300 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:53,200 Speaker 1: I'm just I'm used to something getting in my way, 301 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 1: so I'm just going to expect that. 302 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:56,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's tough. 303 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 2: That's a tough thing to befriend and then figure out 304 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:02,280 Speaker 2: how to share out of that mindset, Right, you said 305 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:03,320 Speaker 2: that catastrophizer. 306 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:06,680 Speaker 1: Yes, we don't want bex the catastatizer. Now. Honestly, being 307 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:08,240 Speaker 1: a mom's helped because you have to put on a 308 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:11,400 Speaker 1: braith face to someone else. So like, I'm sidetracked with 309 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:14,320 Speaker 1: Tallula running around the airport, so I'm no longer worried 310 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:16,800 Speaker 1: about getting to where we're going. I'm worried about this 311 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:19,240 Speaker 1: exact moment of her boarding a flight to Chicago by 312 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:24,760 Speaker 1: accident by herself. Yeah, it's very She very much centers 313 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:26,960 Speaker 1: me in the moment of focus. 314 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:29,880 Speaker 2: Just running down the jet bridge heading to wherever she 315 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 2: decides she wants to go in any one day. 316 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:33,480 Speaker 1: It's going to be home on the moment of like, 317 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:36,120 Speaker 1: where's t Lula Chicago? 318 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:38,800 Speaker 3: You need to chip her asa, I. 319 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:40,080 Speaker 1: Said that to Austin. I think I need to put 320 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 1: an attack around her, like as a necklace. 321 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:45,560 Speaker 3: We'll get her a really nice like casing for that. 322 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 1: It will be fine. 323 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:50,520 Speaker 2: So, speaking of NBC, I do want to rewind a 324 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:54,080 Speaker 2: little bit and hear about how you got involved with 325 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 2: working with them in the first place for so many again, 326 00:16:56,880 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 2: including yourself a dream opportunity. So what was it like 327 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:02,120 Speaker 2: when this first came on your radar? 328 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:05,080 Speaker 1: So I'm very lucky. I was introduced to the amazing 329 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:10,680 Speaker 1: Rebecca Chapman at NBC through a dear, dear friend of mine, Robernette, 330 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:14,320 Speaker 1: who was a writer. He's been in the industry for many, 331 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 1: many years, very hugely celebrated writer, and he and Becky 332 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:23,040 Speaker 1: go back a long, long way, and he introduced us 333 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:25,439 Speaker 1: and we got chatting, and then I went to the 334 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:29,080 Speaker 1: trials and we met and it was a very She 335 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:31,280 Speaker 1: knew me through Peloton, but didn't know really how to 336 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 1: connect with me. Molly Solomon NBC also knew me through Peloton, 337 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:38,400 Speaker 1: and it was just it was serendipitous moment of connection 338 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:42,359 Speaker 1: through and outside, you know, a seeming outside source bringing 339 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:47,320 Speaker 1: us together. And she basically we sat down and she 340 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:51,359 Speaker 1: thought up this role for me. It was like, Okay, 341 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:52,800 Speaker 1: we're going to get you, We're going to have you, 342 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:54,440 Speaker 1: we want you out there, we want to do something 343 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:57,080 Speaker 1: with you. Let me come back to you, and she 344 00:17:57,160 --> 00:17:58,960 Speaker 1: did within a couple of days and was like, I've 345 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:03,040 Speaker 1: got an idea. Would you like to do all of this? 346 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:06,439 Speaker 1: I was like, yes, I knew you'd love to because 347 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:09,359 Speaker 1: you're the person who can run a marathon and talk 348 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:12,240 Speaker 1: at the same time. There are so few and far between, 349 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:17,119 Speaker 1: right like, okay, yeah, there we go. So it was 350 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:19,320 Speaker 1: you know, a few a few phone calls of that 351 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:23,040 Speaker 1: disbelief of Wowja're on the floor walking down the middle 352 00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:25,440 Speaker 1: of SOHO one day when she called and like gave 353 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:27,920 Speaker 1: me the full offer, and I was just like, there's 354 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:31,200 Speaker 1: no one here. To tell I, like FaceTime, my mom 355 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 1: and dad screamed down the phone. I was like, I'm 356 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:36,959 Speaker 1: going to Paris with NBC, like just lost it, and 357 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:39,040 Speaker 1: it was one of those big moments. 358 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:42,800 Speaker 2: So this isn't your first time being behind the microphone, 359 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:45,680 Speaker 2: of course, with your time with Peloton, but then beyond that, 360 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:49,040 Speaker 2: you've also been doing some things locally with nyr R 361 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:51,920 Speaker 2: and beyond, So shed some insight for us on what 362 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:53,439 Speaker 2: that journey has been like for you. 363 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:57,840 Speaker 1: So I started the conversation came about when I was pregnant, 364 00:18:57,840 --> 00:19:02,240 Speaker 1: actually with Tallula about doing commentary for the broadcast of 365 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:06,560 Speaker 1: the New York City Marathon, and it was just too 366 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:10,199 Speaker 1: close to my due date to safely bring me on 367 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:12,399 Speaker 1: as part of the broadcast team. Even though I was 368 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 1: fully I was like, it's fine, she's not due for 369 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:17,439 Speaker 1: like I think it was November third, the race or 370 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:19,080 Speaker 1: something like that, and she wasn't duetil the twelfth. I 371 00:19:19,119 --> 00:19:22,200 Speaker 1: was like, I'll be fine, thought, you don't worry about it. 372 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:25,280 Speaker 1: She ends up coming early, so it wouldn't have been fine. 373 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:27,240 Speaker 1: So we kind of put a pin in that conversation 374 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:32,800 Speaker 1: and we recollected our conversation the following summer ahead of 375 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:36,960 Speaker 1: last year twenty twenty three TCS New City Marathon, and 376 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:40,080 Speaker 1: so I came on board with ABC seven at ESPN 377 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 1: to do commentary at the finish line, which was I'm 378 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:47,760 Speaker 1: a crier and like, I'm just you know, I will 379 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:50,360 Speaker 1: bore my eyes out on peloton and I think vaguely 380 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:54,399 Speaker 1: emotional touching said whatever, I just cry. So there was 381 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:57,000 Speaker 1: a lot of moments where I was like, let's got 382 00:19:57,200 --> 00:20:01,960 Speaker 1: me because I'm like especially when Alston came over the 383 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:02,760 Speaker 1: finish line, I. 384 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:03,600 Speaker 3: Was like, Okay, we're done. 385 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:04,239 Speaker 1: Wait, don't We're done? 386 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:04,439 Speaker 3: Right. 387 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:06,000 Speaker 1: I can't be cause I'm gonna cry and I'm not 388 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:08,600 Speaker 1: gonna be able to go back on camera. But it 389 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:12,920 Speaker 1: was really a wow moment. And I've never been more 390 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:17,040 Speaker 1: scared than when you know you have the producer in 391 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:20,080 Speaker 1: your ear, you have a pa right there with you, 392 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:22,800 Speaker 1: you have like four screens prompts. I had the big 393 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:25,600 Speaker 1: screen going on. I was literally at the finish line 394 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:30,040 Speaker 1: of my most emotional race and many people's most favorite 395 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:33,800 Speaker 1: race too, and I look up and I was I 396 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:35,800 Speaker 1: was dancing. I was so nervous. I just didn't know 397 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:37,439 Speaker 1: what to do with myself. I was just like, oh 398 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:39,960 Speaker 1: my gosh, I'm about to go live on ESPN. This 399 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:43,600 Speaker 1: is a dream come true. On ABC seven Local. I 400 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:45,400 Speaker 1: was just I was like, no, this is gonna go wrong. 401 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:48,240 Speaker 1: I'm gonna mumble. And I look up and on the 402 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:52,080 Speaker 1: screen everyone is starting the TCS New York City Marathon, 403 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:57,080 Speaker 1: and literally as I look up, there is Austin Selena, 404 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:02,880 Speaker 1: Tundae rad for Dennis who was running with them. Who 405 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:05,400 Speaker 1: else was running that day? Oh my god? But missing 406 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:08,080 Speaker 1: I'm sure I'm missing my colleagues. But they were all 407 00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:11,879 Speaker 1: starting together, and Austin jumped up and like high five 408 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,600 Speaker 1: towards the cameraman, and I like was like, that's my 409 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:18,919 Speaker 1: sign it's going to be okay. And it just settled me. 410 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:22,160 Speaker 1: And it was just no one around me was familiar faces, 411 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:24,680 Speaker 1: like the team I'd worked with, but I couldn't see them. 412 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:27,160 Speaker 1: There was like a new pa. I didn't know this 413 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:29,879 Speaker 1: person other than that morning, and like the New York 414 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:32,160 Speaker 1: Road Run, his team who I knew were nowhere around. 415 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:35,600 Speaker 1: So just that calm of seeing people you care about 416 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:38,879 Speaker 1: love just kind of settle those butterflies. I was like, 417 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:43,200 Speaker 1: and here we are. It couldn't have been like you know, 418 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:46,000 Speaker 1: when you're just like timing sometimes you couldn't write it 419 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:48,480 Speaker 1: in a better way, and it was got I mean 420 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:51,840 Speaker 1: everybody caught that on the on the stream because people 421 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:53,320 Speaker 1: when I got back to my phone, people were like, 422 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:55,400 Speaker 1: oh my gosh, we saw Austin and blah blah blah 423 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:57,560 Speaker 1: blah blah. As you came on screen, I'm like. 424 00:21:58,040 --> 00:22:03,240 Speaker 2: Oh, it is such a really beautiful, reassuring moment before 425 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:05,080 Speaker 2: a really scary thing. 426 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:05,480 Speaker 4: Yeah. 427 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:06,240 Speaker 1: It was. 428 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:13,840 Speaker 2: Taking a break from today's episode to give some love 429 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:18,920 Speaker 2: to my sponsor at Element for making this special series possible. 430 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:21,080 Speaker 3: Element helps anyone. 431 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:24,879 Speaker 2: Stay hydrated without the sugar and other dodgy ingredients found 432 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:29,080 Speaker 2: in popular electrolyte and sports drinks. 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Right, so 456 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:10,840 Speaker 2: many different anxiety inducing moments that you have managed to 457 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:15,600 Speaker 2: conquer in the past. So what do you lean into 458 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:21,600 Speaker 2: when those feelings of anxiety or nervousness naturally occur? How 459 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:24,800 Speaker 2: do you hype yourself up to show up to difficult moments. 460 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:29,640 Speaker 1: Honestly, I don't think I hype myself up. I really 461 00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:32,000 Speaker 1: am Like when I hear my other colleagues be like, 462 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:35,400 Speaker 1: and I'm your hype person, I'm like, I'm not. I'm 463 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:39,000 Speaker 1: so not anyone's hype person Like I don't. I'm like, wow, 464 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:41,760 Speaker 1: this is such a stark comparison. But that's why we 465 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:46,639 Speaker 1: are all in our different roles. I my, my, my, 466 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:49,560 Speaker 1: this is my train of thought. I catastrophize first. 467 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:51,200 Speaker 3: We start with catastical. 468 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:55,160 Speaker 1: We start with the absolute worst case situation, and from 469 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 1: there I work up to best case scenario. And then 470 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:01,760 Speaker 1: by the time I've got to best case scenario, I'm 471 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:04,640 Speaker 1: probably started and I'm running and I completely forget because 472 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:08,399 Speaker 1: when I start moving, everything just flashes out of my brain. 473 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:12,800 Speaker 1: It is like that Rolodex just suddenly goes like, Okay, 474 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:17,400 Speaker 1: let's go back and reset and restart, and I kind 475 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:21,840 Speaker 1: of forget the anxiety. But I definitely I definitely start 476 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:25,040 Speaker 1: with I think I think I could testrifize first because 477 00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:28,560 Speaker 1: I want to accept what could happen the worst case 478 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:33,160 Speaker 1: that what could happen. I'm like, okay, okay, if that happens, cool, 479 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:36,000 Speaker 1: but I'm not gonna let it happen because this is 480 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,400 Speaker 1: gonna happen, and like that's my hype. Yes, that comes up, 481 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:44,560 Speaker 1: But I'm weird and like I say this to my therapist, 482 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:48,879 Speaker 1: they will acknowledge this as well. When I'm overwhelmed and 483 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:51,240 Speaker 1: when I don't, like if i don't want to be somewhere, 484 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:54,920 Speaker 1: or if I'm starting to have like really anxious thoughts, 485 00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:58,760 Speaker 1: I have this strange visualization that I do and I 486 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:01,639 Speaker 1: don't have had it since I can remember, and it 487 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:08,440 Speaker 1: is me solo on a US school I'm English US 488 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:13,120 Speaker 1: school indoor basketball court, sitting on the like I don't 489 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:15,119 Speaker 1: even know what they're called the steps where people watch, 490 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:19,639 Speaker 1: by myself, and it's wooden and there's no one around, 491 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:22,280 Speaker 1: there's no basketball, there's nothing, but it's a basketball court. 492 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:24,879 Speaker 1: I know that. And I'm always just by myself and 493 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:28,440 Speaker 1: I'm very calmly just sitting and that's my weird visualization. 494 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:31,120 Speaker 1: I'm like, I think I've ever been in a wooden 495 00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:34,639 Speaker 1: indoor basketball court in this life, maybe in my bass life, 496 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:38,320 Speaker 1: but I grew up in England never played basketball. Like 497 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:41,159 Speaker 1: it's such a strange thing, but it's my calm, weird, 498 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:41,919 Speaker 1: calm place. 499 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:43,879 Speaker 3: So I love that for you. 500 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,080 Speaker 2: I mean, hey, if you're a weird calm place is 501 00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:50,560 Speaker 2: a safe basketball gym sitting on some bleachers. I think 502 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:54,639 Speaker 2: you're okay, right, Like, I love that visualization or that 503 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:58,320 Speaker 2: thought process that you go through asking yourself what's the 504 00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:01,119 Speaker 2: worst thing that can happen? Because nine point nine percent 505 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,720 Speaker 2: of the time, the worst thing that could happen is 506 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:06,920 Speaker 2: typically that you're just exactly where you started. And we're 507 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,480 Speaker 2: so scared about things not going to plan that we 508 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:15,480 Speaker 2: allow that fear to fester and we idate all of 509 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:19,520 Speaker 2: these unrealistic possibilities. But really, most of the time, the 510 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 2: worst thing that's gonna happen is you're exactly where you started. 511 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:25,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, And I always say this when this is referring 512 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,680 Speaker 1: to anything you trained for. Again, we're not just talking running. 513 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:32,399 Speaker 1: I know the audience is mainly running, but whatever you 514 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:36,000 Speaker 1: trained for, when we get to race day, we forget 515 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:40,600 Speaker 1: the training. I do. I know you like we've had 516 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:44,199 Speaker 1: I'm sure this conversation of like, huh, I have just 517 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:50,280 Speaker 1: busted my behind for months weeks, and you're on that 518 00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:54,120 Speaker 1: start line and it disappears. And even as you say, 519 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:58,080 Speaker 1: even if you get a meta off, that start line 520 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:02,320 Speaker 1: doesn't matter because you have to remember how hard you 521 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:07,400 Speaker 1: worked in the training. The race is a luxury. It's 522 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:10,560 Speaker 1: a blessing that you get to be there. I say 523 00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:13,240 Speaker 1: this in my classes. It is the cherry on top 524 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:16,159 Speaker 1: of the sprinkled icing, on top of the thousand tiered 525 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:19,439 Speaker 1: cake with all the cream or whatever in between that 526 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:22,679 Speaker 1: you've created. It is the teeny tiniest part of what 527 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,480 Speaker 1: you should be really proud about. It's a bonus. 528 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, so Paris is kind of the bonus right now. 529 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,760 Speaker 2: If you think about the fact that you have done 530 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:36,280 Speaker 2: so much and you got the opportunity right, And I 531 00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:38,920 Speaker 2: think that in itself is such a testament. There's so 532 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,960 Speaker 2: much that again we talk about or think about, like, oh, 533 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,240 Speaker 2: this could go this could happen, this could go wrong, 534 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:45,120 Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera. 535 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,000 Speaker 3: But the fact that they came to you. 536 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:53,719 Speaker 2: That is so special because there are so many people 537 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:58,520 Speaker 2: they could have come to. Yeah, but they thought Rebecca Gentry, 538 00:28:58,640 --> 00:28:59,959 Speaker 2: that woman's got or something. 539 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:01,880 Speaker 1: I don't know. I need to check if I'm Rebecca 540 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:03,880 Speaker 1: or Beck some my credentials. I would think Rebecca because 541 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:05,000 Speaker 1: it was all government stuff. 542 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:09,160 Speaker 2: So yeah, all government stuff. Okay, So but back to 543 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,640 Speaker 2: getting behind the microphone. You talked about your experience at 544 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:14,680 Speaker 2: the TCS New York City Marathon, the nerves anxiety that 545 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:18,680 Speaker 2: came with that. As you continued on throughout that day 546 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:21,480 Speaker 2: and did more and more on camera work, you heard 547 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:24,880 Speaker 2: the person in your ear what feelings thoughts were going 548 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:25,560 Speaker 2: through your mind? 549 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:29,440 Speaker 1: How can I do this better? How can I get 550 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:32,680 Speaker 1: this opportunity again? How can I grow here? It was 551 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,920 Speaker 1: so exhilarating in the moment, and it flew by, It 552 00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:38,640 Speaker 1: went so quickly, and I wanted there to be more. 553 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:41,520 Speaker 1: And anyone who's ever done it you know it soundbites. 554 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:45,239 Speaker 1: It's literally you work for weeks pulling this together and 555 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:47,800 Speaker 1: you're on for less than a minute here and there, 556 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:51,320 Speaker 1: and it's gone. And I just kept thinking, to my 557 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:53,320 Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I cannot wait for the feedback. I 558 00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:55,680 Speaker 1: cannot wait to see how I can be better at 559 00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:59,479 Speaker 1: this because I love doing it. It sparked something really 560 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:05,960 Speaker 1: really new in me, and I loved that feeling of Okay, 561 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:07,960 Speaker 1: I've got to grow this. This is the seed, it's 562 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,120 Speaker 1: been planted, it's being watered, and I need to just 563 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:11,000 Speaker 1: keep watering this. 564 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:16,680 Speaker 2: I think it's really admirable that you are looking forward 565 00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:20,640 Speaker 2: to someone telling you what to do differently, because it 566 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:24,880 Speaker 2: shows that you have an openness not only to that feedback, 567 00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:28,720 Speaker 2: but also to the potential that could come from someone 568 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,640 Speaker 2: saying something that maybe you don't want to hear. So 569 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:37,160 Speaker 2: in that exercise, in getting that feedback, what was the 570 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:39,600 Speaker 2: most useful for you to slow down? 571 00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:45,720 Speaker 1: I think from years of being a peloton instructor, of 572 00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:51,440 Speaker 1: having time blocks to fit certain things into, I thought 573 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:56,280 Speaker 1: it would be quite an easy transition to be okay, 574 00:30:56,320 --> 00:31:00,040 Speaker 1: you have roughly ninety seconds to conduct this interview. It 575 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:06,360 Speaker 1: something like, whatn't it so you the human brain? I 576 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:08,960 Speaker 1: think we are so weird with time, like all of 577 00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:11,000 Speaker 1: us are so different. Some of us think time moves 578 00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:14,320 Speaker 1: so slowly. But again, it's kind of what excites you. 579 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:18,160 Speaker 1: And I spoke I think too fast because I know 580 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 1: one of my points I had like ten seconds more 581 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:23,480 Speaker 1: and I could have carried on. I could have I 582 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:26,280 Speaker 1: don't know, just brought a little bit more passion or 583 00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:30,560 Speaker 1: energy into certain parts of the conversation. So that was 584 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,760 Speaker 1: a really great learning of watching it back and slowing 585 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:37,640 Speaker 1: down of I will always be told in your ear 586 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,920 Speaker 1: when we're wrapping up, and worst case scenario they just 587 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:42,920 Speaker 1: cast away, but you're always going to be told of like, okay, 588 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:47,760 Speaker 1: we're cutting to Brittany Bell or Sam Ryan, whoever it 589 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:52,640 Speaker 1: was at that point, okay, and a good host can 590 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:56,320 Speaker 1: pull a conversation to an end quite quickly and concisely, 591 00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,040 Speaker 1: and you move on. So that was really exciting to 592 00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:00,800 Speaker 1: hear that feedback and be like, oh cool, Okay, now 593 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:03,000 Speaker 1: I've got to really learn to have that confidence to 594 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:06,560 Speaker 1: be talking to a stranger about something potentially deep and 595 00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:09,520 Speaker 1: interesting and just have to go, thank you so much 596 00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:10,720 Speaker 1: for your time today, We're moving on. 597 00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:16,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, very wildly different than your experience at Peloton. What 598 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,719 Speaker 2: else would you say was the biggest shift from what 599 00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:21,400 Speaker 2: you're used to doing on camera. 600 00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:26,480 Speaker 1: I think having someone in my ear, yeah, because we 601 00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:28,320 Speaker 1: don't have anyone in our ears at Peloton. We have 602 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:30,320 Speaker 1: a screen in front of us where the control room 603 00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:36,200 Speaker 1: will give us alerts if something, music, sound, something is happening. 604 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:40,680 Speaker 1: We'll get almost safety style alerts, but we're not produced 605 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:46,680 Speaker 1: that way. So in amongst the outside noise, in ear noise, 606 00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:49,880 Speaker 1: that in your head noise, there was a lot going on. 607 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:52,600 Speaker 1: So the first like practice in the mornings of that, 608 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:55,440 Speaker 1: I was like, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa Okay, 609 00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:57,880 Speaker 1: and I mean I was. I was at the finish 610 00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:02,400 Speaker 1: line as the wheelchair race was and going in for 611 00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:05,840 Speaker 1: my second hit, and they were literally directing them on 612 00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:09,680 Speaker 1: either side. So it was like dodgems for me. I'm like, okay, 613 00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,080 Speaker 1: whilst being told to stand here, they're everywhere. I had 614 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,120 Speaker 1: the cameraman like directing me here. So that was a lot. 615 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:17,840 Speaker 1: It was really the looking at ten cameras that was 616 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,680 Speaker 1: really overwhelming. When I started, Peloton suddenly felt like a breeze. 617 00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:23,400 Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, very different, super different. 618 00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:30,520 Speaker 2: And also you're now speaking to a very different audience, right, 619 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:34,600 Speaker 2: So how was that experience for you? Because when you're 620 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:38,200 Speaker 2: at Peloton, you almost kind of know what to expect 621 00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:40,520 Speaker 2: at this point, Like you know that you're going to 622 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:42,800 Speaker 2: have people that are your people that are hanging out 623 00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:44,640 Speaker 2: with you. Yeah, you also know that maybe there are 624 00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:47,560 Speaker 2: going to be people that don't feel as passionately about 625 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:50,560 Speaker 2: you as your people, and okay, we've learned how to 626 00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:53,920 Speaker 2: navigate those people as well. But when you get to okay, 627 00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:55,960 Speaker 2: I'm going to be on local TV or okay, I'm 628 00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:58,400 Speaker 2: going to be on ESPN, it's a whole new can 629 00:33:58,400 --> 00:33:58,840 Speaker 2: of worms. 630 00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:03,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, it's very I think I kind of had 631 00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:07,800 Speaker 1: to almost block it out because the big difference between 632 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:11,360 Speaker 1: the two audiences is the Paladin Peloton audience is allowed 633 00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:14,040 Speaker 1: and they will slide into your DMS if they didn't 634 00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:17,640 Speaker 1: like something, or didn't agree with something, or thought one 635 00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:22,520 Speaker 1: track was not great. And I definitely don't think ESPN 636 00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:27,160 Speaker 1: ABC seven they don't care as much. It's again, it's 637 00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:30,640 Speaker 1: a small hit amongst a very big, very loved event 638 00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:34,920 Speaker 1: in New York City. So I think it was almost 639 00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:37,680 Speaker 1: freeing for me in that respect to be like, oh, okay, 640 00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:39,040 Speaker 1: I'm not going to have so and so we learn 641 00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:41,240 Speaker 1: I'm never gonna take your class again because you played 642 00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:44,880 Speaker 1: that music. Well, not today. 643 00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:47,359 Speaker 2: I'm probably still going to watch the New York City 644 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:49,799 Speaker 2: Marathon next year, even if BEX is doing this. 645 00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:52,640 Speaker 1: And I'm like, eh, yeah, because it's ninety seconds where 646 00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:54,359 Speaker 1: you can just go and get a cup of tea 647 00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:56,960 Speaker 1: and come back what I'm fine, Oh my god. 648 00:34:57,040 --> 00:35:01,000 Speaker 2: Well, obviously people are also tuning in to your ninety 649 00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:04,319 Speaker 2: seconds as we gear up for the Olympics. Tell me 650 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:08,239 Speaker 2: what is it that you are most excited about feeling it? 651 00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:12,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, the buzz Austin just got back from Paris himself 652 00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:15,600 Speaker 1: for fashion Week and he said the feeling, the vibe 653 00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,040 Speaker 1: in Paris was so different, and he's been going there 654 00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:20,880 Speaker 1: for ten years at this time, and he's like, it 655 00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:23,839 Speaker 1: was just it was a bit more like edgy, Like 656 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:25,759 Speaker 1: on Edgley, there was a bit more like WHOA, what's 657 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:29,239 Speaker 1: going on? What's going on? So I'm really excited to 658 00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:36,279 Speaker 1: have this old city filled with modernity and success of 659 00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:38,600 Speaker 1: this current generation of athletes. 660 00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:40,760 Speaker 3: Sport you're most excited to watch? 661 00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:45,680 Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. Honestly, is the marathon? I really am. 662 00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:49,000 Speaker 1: I think it's a it's a somewhat new field. I'm 663 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,160 Speaker 1: really excited to see Rose Harvey on the UK team, 664 00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:55,759 Speaker 1: see what she does. She's just her story is great her. 665 00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:58,960 Speaker 1: I've been following her training closely on Instagram and I 666 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:01,480 Speaker 1: really stoked to see her fly. 667 00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:02,839 Speaker 3: See her fly. 668 00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:06,080 Speaker 2: If you backs, aside from the marathon, had to participate 669 00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:07,680 Speaker 2: in any Olympic sport. 670 00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:08,560 Speaker 3: What would it be? 671 00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:09,480 Speaker 1: Dressage? 672 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:15,279 Speaker 2: Oh wow, we did not expect that one. Okay, tell 673 00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:17,120 Speaker 2: me about your why for dressage. 674 00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:20,160 Speaker 1: I really wanted to enjoy riding horses when I was younger. 675 00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:26,040 Speaker 1: My sister ride horses. I just never loved it. I 676 00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:29,480 Speaker 1: didn't trust them at all, but I would religiously go 677 00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:35,440 Speaker 1: and watch the dressage, and I am wowed by the outfits, 678 00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:38,200 Speaker 1: the humans where the braiding of the horse is Maine, 679 00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:41,320 Speaker 1: and their tail and I just I just the little 680 00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:43,319 Speaker 1: heel flakes. Oh my god, I just would love to 681 00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:47,160 Speaker 1: be up there in my cute little suit, waking my horse, dance. 682 00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:49,280 Speaker 3: In my cute little suit. 683 00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:51,279 Speaker 2: You know what I don't want to be doing in 684 00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:53,920 Speaker 2: a cute little suit is being in Paris. 685 00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:54,120 Speaker 3: No. 686 00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:57,200 Speaker 2: The heat, well right now it's cold. So I've been 687 00:36:57,239 --> 00:36:59,520 Speaker 2: told that it's been about seventy degrees or something. 688 00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:03,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, yesterday it was sixty four and raining. So if 689 00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:08,680 Speaker 1: it stays that way, heavens are happy. Because Paris and 690 00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:11,480 Speaker 1: Europe in the summer is I mean, for the Europeans, 691 00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:14,319 Speaker 1: they're fine, they understand and deal with it. But for 692 00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:18,560 Speaker 1: the one hundred and twenty track and field US team 693 00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:21,560 Speaker 1: and all the other athletes, but for sure the outdoor 694 00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:23,960 Speaker 1: teams here, they're going to be like ish. I know. 695 00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:24,520 Speaker 3: I know. 696 00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:26,840 Speaker 2: When I was I was looking for like where I 697 00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:28,680 Speaker 2: was going to stay and everything. The first thing was 698 00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:31,040 Speaker 2: just making sure it had air conditioning because a lot 699 00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:32,919 Speaker 2: of the homes in Paris do not. 700 00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:36,680 Speaker 1: Have any air Airbnb is now yeah wow, yeah, yeah, 701 00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:39,759 Speaker 1: it's going to be very interesting. But again, like what 702 00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:42,040 Speaker 1: Tokyo was really hot, wasn't it as well? And people 703 00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:45,640 Speaker 1: were really struggling. So the trials for the marathon this 704 00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:49,880 Speaker 1: year super hot day. Yeah, so maybe people are climatized. 705 00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:50,440 Speaker 1: We don't know. 706 00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:51,000 Speaker 3: Maybe. 707 00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:55,839 Speaker 2: Actually part of this series, I had Italian Minsburg, who's 708 00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:57,480 Speaker 2: a reporter for the New York Times, come in and 709 00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:00,359 Speaker 2: sit down and talk about what her experience has been 710 00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:04,440 Speaker 2: like reporting covering over three different Olympic Games. 711 00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:08,040 Speaker 3: Now this will be her fourth, I believe, and her. 712 00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:10,839 Speaker 2: Most recent article that went live on the Times is 713 00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:13,120 Speaker 2: about the fact that this could be one of the 714 00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:15,400 Speaker 2: hottest Olympics in recent history. 715 00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:17,719 Speaker 1: Oh yikes, here we go, here we. 716 00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:18,480 Speaker 3: Go, here we go. 717 00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:21,880 Speaker 2: Outside of you yourself running the marathon. When it comes 718 00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:26,200 Speaker 2: to the possibility of commentating on the women's marathon the 719 00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:29,440 Speaker 2: following day, do you feel as though this would be 720 00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:32,440 Speaker 2: different than your previous experience or where are we sitting 721 00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:32,719 Speaker 2: with that? 722 00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:36,560 Speaker 1: Yeah? I do. I think it will be very different. 723 00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:41,600 Speaker 1: I feel well this year, I know on track and field, 724 00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:48,720 Speaker 1: the US women's have completely outshone the men. Yeah, and 725 00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:52,279 Speaker 1: I think going into the I'm going to talk about 726 00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:57,080 Speaker 1: the marathon because that's my speciality. Going into this race specifically, 727 00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:02,200 Speaker 1: there is high hopes we have a really strong roster 728 00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:05,520 Speaker 1: of women up there, so I think it's going to 729 00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:10,400 Speaker 1: be very interesting to follow them because they don't have 730 00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:12,880 Speaker 1: a huge career behind them. There's a lot of the 731 00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:16,680 Speaker 1: time at TCS New York City Marathon, for example, you 732 00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:20,399 Speaker 1: are talking about the leaders with their decade plus of 733 00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:23,359 Speaker 1: running history behind them and their accolades, and like, oh, 734 00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:26,000 Speaker 1: someone is just on the you know, ten thousand meters 735 00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:30,200 Speaker 1: cross country, but you know, right now we're not looking 736 00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:34,400 Speaker 1: at people who have a huge like list of medals 737 00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:38,799 Speaker 1: behind them, which is really thrilling to think, Wow, this 738 00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:43,440 Speaker 1: is a whole new realm of athletes coming through the works. 739 00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:48,160 Speaker 1: Like I remember when it was the Nadal Federer, Djokovic 740 00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:51,440 Speaker 1: always at the top of the game. Then you rewind 741 00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:54,440 Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, yeah, it was sampress agacy, and 742 00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:57,520 Speaker 1: you just think about these waves of athletes coming through, 743 00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:00,440 Speaker 1: and the goat goes through. You've got like Lewis Hamilton, 744 00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:04,000 Speaker 1: Max Mustappen in Formula one, who's the new ones? Coming 745 00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:06,560 Speaker 1: rising up right now? Is it Lando or is it Charles? 746 00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:10,439 Speaker 1: Like is it? So that's what thrills me of. Where 747 00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:13,600 Speaker 1: are they the trials? We're just a wow moment to 748 00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:16,239 Speaker 1: see like Dakota coming through. I was standing right next 749 00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:19,959 Speaker 1: to her coach and he was like gripping the air 750 00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:24,000 Speaker 1: of like She's gonna do it, and just this this 751 00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:27,719 Speaker 1: moment was so huge for them. So I can't even 752 00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:30,360 Speaker 1: imagine this next level. And so I hope getting to 753 00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:34,399 Speaker 1: speak to them, their coaches, their teams, whoever we can 754 00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:36,279 Speaker 1: talk to, and then watch them do it on the 755 00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:40,400 Speaker 1: day in amongst athletes from all over the world, athletes 756 00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:44,120 Speaker 1: who I have not watched in the trials, like obviously 757 00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:46,719 Speaker 1: the UK team have paid very close attention to, but 758 00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:51,280 Speaker 1: I haven't seen. I don't know much about the other athletes. 759 00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:55,319 Speaker 1: And all of these women are so FIUs and you know, 760 00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:58,360 Speaker 1: big shout out to Alison Felix for making the moms 761 00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:00,919 Speaker 1: out there more comfortable at the Olympic village this year. 762 00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:04,279 Speaker 1: And there's so much change that's happening for women in 763 00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:08,840 Speaker 1: sport that's working towards making the experience for them smoother, 764 00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:13,600 Speaker 1: therefore allowing them to perform to their fullest potential and 765 00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:16,120 Speaker 1: this could be the first year we really see that shine. 766 00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:16,600 Speaker 3: Yeah. 767 00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:19,560 Speaker 2: Oh, I'm so excited not only to watch that event, 768 00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:23,320 Speaker 2: but just all of these women that are truly breaking 769 00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:27,400 Speaker 2: barriers and doing things in ways that we've really never seen. 770 00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:29,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, we're seeing. 771 00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:33,240 Speaker 2: I mean, every other day at the trials was personal 772 00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:35,520 Speaker 2: best to make the team, personal best to make the team. 773 00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:40,080 Speaker 2: And that is truly remarkable and definitely gives you some 774 00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:42,880 Speaker 2: goosebumps thinking about what's going to happen when we really 775 00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:44,040 Speaker 2: get on that big stage. 776 00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:47,720 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh my gosh. I am also really amped 777 00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:48,480 Speaker 3: for the marathon. 778 00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:52,080 Speaker 2: I think the thing that is so interesting about that 779 00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:56,400 Speaker 2: race specifically is the trials are so quote unquote early 780 00:41:56,600 --> 00:42:01,520 Speaker 2: comparatively so far, so it's almost as these athletes get 781 00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:04,319 Speaker 2: to go into their own little hidden cocoon for a 782 00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:07,200 Speaker 2: while and then emerge and show what they've been doing 783 00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:11,000 Speaker 2: over the last handful of months, whereas within track and field, 784 00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:14,280 Speaker 2: all of those athletes were just on display and it's like, okay, 785 00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:16,160 Speaker 2: three weeks, time to turn it around again. 786 00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:19,640 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, they are like peak, They're peaking right now 787 00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:23,400 Speaker 1: and peaking again in a few weeks. But the Olympic 788 00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:26,799 Speaker 1: marathon trials. We're back in February. It's so long and 789 00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:29,919 Speaker 1: we've seen the girls came down to do the mini 790 00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:32,399 Speaker 1: ten k, the Masteracar Mini ten k here in New York, 791 00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:35,839 Speaker 1: so there was a great you know, we got to 792 00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:41,160 Speaker 1: see them. That's it. It's really like oh wow, as 793 00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:43,480 Speaker 1: you say, they've got into this like recovery from the 794 00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:45,479 Speaker 1: trials and then back into a training block. 795 00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:47,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, stopped training. 796 00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:50,839 Speaker 2: They are not yet on the side of the coin 797 00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:55,799 Speaker 2: that we talked about, which we're graduating. No, yeah, are graduating. 798 00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:58,680 Speaker 3: We're moving on. Well, I'm so excited not only for 799 00:42:58,760 --> 00:42:59,160 Speaker 3: you and. 800 00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:02,160 Speaker 2: This major opportunity, but also selfishly that we get to 801 00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:02,800 Speaker 2: be there together. 802 00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:03,880 Speaker 3: It's going to be great. 803 00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:08,520 Speaker 2: What would you say right now outside of the working 804 00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:10,000 Speaker 2: aspect of being in Paris? 805 00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:11,879 Speaker 3: Is there anything you have to do while you're there? 806 00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:14,040 Speaker 1: I want to have a glass of red wine a 807 00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:16,640 Speaker 1: cute Well, last time I went, I was pregnant. 808 00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:17,480 Speaker 3: Oh my goodness. 809 00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:19,239 Speaker 1: Yeah, And it was the first time Austin and I 810 00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:19,840 Speaker 1: went together. 811 00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:24,040 Speaker 4: Oh so the City of Love and we had a 812 00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:29,000 Speaker 4: beautifully romantic dinner in one of his favorite restaurants, teeny 813 00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:33,600 Speaker 4: tiny restaurant, and we'd talked since we met about going 814 00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:36,000 Speaker 4: to Paris and sipping on a nice glass of wine together, 815 00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:37,719 Speaker 4: and we didn't get so not that he's coming on 816 00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:40,520 Speaker 4: this trip, So you and I have with lots of 817 00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:42,040 Speaker 4: friends and send him a picture. 818 00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:46,920 Speaker 2: I'm like secretly like yes, oh my god, Well I'm 819 00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:47,359 Speaker 2: so amped. 820 00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:48,640 Speaker 3: I can't wait to drink red wine with you. 821 00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:52,240 Speaker 2: I know that most everyone listening to this probably already 822 00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:54,200 Speaker 2: follows you on the socials, but if they don't, just 823 00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:55,479 Speaker 2: yet give us your info. 824 00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:57,000 Speaker 3: How do the hurdlers keep up with you? 825 00:43:57,600 --> 00:44:01,120 Speaker 1: Head over to you at Bee's Gentry on Instagram. 826 00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:03,520 Speaker 2: Bex Gentry on Instagram, and of course the podcast as well. 827 00:44:03,680 --> 00:44:06,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, of course that is and why set the Pace 828 00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:09,839 Speaker 1: presented by Peloton. You can find that on all platforms. 829 00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:12,280 Speaker 3: Oh my god, she's a natural. I'm over at Emily 830 00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:13,280 Speaker 3: Body at. 831 00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:17,120 Speaker 2: Hurdle Podcast Another Hurdle conquered. Catch you guys next time.