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Speaker 2: Hey, everyone, Emily A Body bringing you a special installment

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Speaker 2: of Hurdle, a wellness focused podcast where I sit down

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Speaker 2: today's special episode, I am bringing you my conversation from

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Speaker 3: I chatted with Samia Akbar. She's the marketing manager for

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Speaker 2: Mollie Ridderbeck, she is the fitness, training and health director

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Speaker 2: for Runners World Magazine and Bicycling, as well as Lindsay

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Speaker 2: and talked about how sport has made us who we

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Speaker 2: last note, it's crazy out there, guys. I feel it.

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Speaker 2: to hurdling. Let's introduce the ladies to my left, I'll

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Speaker 3: Hi, guys, I'm Lindsay.

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Speaker 1: I am a run coach, I am a senior instructor

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Speaker 4: Hello everyone, good to see your smiling faces. My name

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Speaker 4: is Samia Akbar and I work at New Balance Athletics, Inc.

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Speaker 2: Two quick things and then I'd love to hear from Molly.

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Speaker 2: First off, the jumpsuit is fire. Secondly, I sat down

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Speaker 2: To have that thing and if it's not, that's okay.

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Speaker 2: It's okay, Mollie.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I totally identify with all that.

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Speaker 6: I would train a different way.

443
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Speaker 3: But I trained by what I love to do.

444
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Speaker 6: I love to run, I love to ride my bike,

445
00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:34,560
Speaker 6: and so my body is just a result of that.

446
00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:38,600
Speaker 6: By doing those things, I've found so much pride and

447
00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:41,800
Speaker 6: self confidence in my body. It became something more than

448
00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:44,680
Speaker 6: just what it looks like. My body is what it

449
00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:48,800
Speaker 6: can do and what I can do. But similarly to you, Lynn,

450
00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:51,920
Speaker 6: I broke my ankle when I was sixteen years old, like.

451
00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:52,879
Speaker 3: A horrible break.

452
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:57,640
Speaker 6: I had a double for exture dislocation, and doctors told

453
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Speaker 6: me I would never run again, I would never do

454
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Speaker 6: much of anything.

455
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Speaker 3: And I was just a kid. So my mom was like,

456
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:06,000
Speaker 3: screw that.

457
00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:08,440
Speaker 6: I was told it couldn't curse, so I just had

458
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,200
Speaker 6: to make sure I didn't and like we got a

459
00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:13,600
Speaker 6: second opinion, and she was like, you're sixteen years old, Like,

460
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:15,960
Speaker 6: go be a kid. If you have to deal with

461
00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:17,760
Speaker 6: it when you're forty, then we'll figure that out when

462
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:21,160
Speaker 6: you're forty. And so I went back to playing soccer,

463
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:26,080
Speaker 6: and I've since run mile races to half marathon races.

464
00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:30,520
Speaker 6: I work at Runners World, and I started riding my

465
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Speaker 6: bike as a way to cross train because it's easier

466
00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,760
Speaker 6: on your joints. And I have then, you know, ridden

467
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Speaker 6: a bike and all the most beautiful places in the world.

468
00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:44,600
Speaker 6: It's taken me on adventures I could have never dreamed of.

469
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Speaker 6: And you know, I get to work in cycling as well.

470
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Speaker 3: And so.

471
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Speaker 6: The injury for me has changed my entire perspective on

472
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Speaker 6: everything that my body can do.

473
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Speaker 3: I'm so grateful to just be able to like walk every.

474
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Speaker 6: Day times same literally same, and I want to wish

475
00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:05,960
Speaker 6: it upon anyone. I don't want anybody to have to

476
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:09,080
Speaker 6: go through like a horrible injury to like develop that

477
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:11,040
Speaker 6: perspective or that gratitude.

478
00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:13,280
Speaker 3: But it's completely changed my life.

479
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:15,560
Speaker 6: Like I'm just so glad that I can do anything

480
00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:17,040
Speaker 6: that I'm able to do because of that.

481
00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:21,600
Speaker 3: To me, I has injury ever really stricken you? Obviously.

482
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 2: Lindsay and Molly talked about their experiences I had.

483
00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:28,000
Speaker 4: I had like a bad training stint because we had

484
00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:30,879
Speaker 4: a really rough winter in Virginia and our team didn't

485
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:35,679
Speaker 4: like go away somewhere else to train over like the

486
00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:38,920
Speaker 4: winter months, and so there was like snow and ice

487
00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:42,240
Speaker 4: and it kept like melting and refreezing, and I was

488
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:45,760
Speaker 4: running doing like some of my like long runs on

489
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:48,560
Speaker 4: that and I had like a like a weird thing

490
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:50,400
Speaker 4: with my hip that had to get a lot of

491
00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:54,840
Speaker 4: like treatment. But otherwise I haven't really I can't say

492
00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:57,359
Speaker 4: that I was like ever hindered by a lot of injury.

493
00:25:57,359 --> 00:26:00,600
Speaker 4: My coach at the time was big on like soft

494
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:04,280
Speaker 4: surface running, and so a lot of times, especially for

495
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:07,000
Speaker 4: longer races, if I had like two runs in a day,

496
00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,359
Speaker 4: I would do my shorter runs on like like through

497
00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:13,720
Speaker 4: the neighborhood on the asphalt. But almost everything else, even

498
00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:15,920
Speaker 4: my tempos, was done on like a dirt path or

499
00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 4: a gravel path.

500
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Speaker 3: Interesting.

501
00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 2: I'm curious to know from all of you if you

502
00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:26,200
Speaker 2: have a specific time, either growing up as an athlete

503
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:29,640
Speaker 2: or now as an athlete, that you reflect on as

504
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:34,200
Speaker 2: one of your most proud moments in your sports.

505
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:40,399
Speaker 3: I'll kick us off. You're welcome.

506
00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:45,520
Speaker 2: These days, I'm a runner, it's still like every time

507
00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:47,439
Speaker 2: I say it, it still never feels real, which is

508
00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:49,960
Speaker 2: just ridiculous because I probably run five or six days

509
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:50,320
Speaker 2: a week.

510
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:52,119
Speaker 3: I'm sure a lot of you can relate.

511
00:26:53,480 --> 00:27:00,120
Speaker 2: I last year trained my butt off for Chicago, and

512
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:03,679
Speaker 2: I went into it after a summer for the first

513
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 2: time of what I would like to call for me

514
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 2: running fast. I was running faster than I ever had

515
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:13,720
Speaker 2: before because I was training for short distance races, which

516
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:17,359
Speaker 2: was so fun as someone who considers themselves a long

517
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:19,720
Speaker 2: distance person. And so I went out there and I

518
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 2: ran fast, and I tried a different couple of mile

519
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 2: races and they were a whole lot of fun. And

520
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:28,520
Speaker 2: so I showed up for Chicago and ran a BQ.

521
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:34,000
Speaker 2: And that was something that Emily in college, who struggled

522
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 2: with her weight and body acceptance and all of these

523
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 2: things like it was never in my vocabulary.

524
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:40,760
Speaker 3: It was never something I even dreamed of.

525
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:43,560
Speaker 2: So to do that for me and kind of let

526
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:46,439
Speaker 2: go of this version of myself, this self limiting version

527
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:50,359
Speaker 2: of myself, was so empowering. So I'd love to know

528
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 2: from you guys, when has sport truly empowered you to

529
00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:55,119
Speaker 2: be your best self.

530
00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:59,959
Speaker 1: The first marathon I ran was the New York City Marathon,

531
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 1: and the end I was like, Okay, this was obviously

532
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:05,199
Speaker 1: the most incredible experience of my life, but I think

533
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 1: I want to do it again just so I can

534
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:09,040
Speaker 1: do it just a little bit better. So even if

535
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:12,720
Speaker 1: it's just like my confidence, or if it's just like.

536
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:13,679
Speaker 3: A minute faster.

537
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:19,240
Speaker 1: And this earlier before the second New York City Marathon,

538
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 1: I ran I started reading Dina Caster's book let Your

539
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:24,200
Speaker 1: Mind Run, which if you haven't read it, it's such

540
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:27,400
Speaker 1: an incredible book and it really talks all about like

541
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 1: what are you saying to yourself?

542
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:30,120
Speaker 5: What?

543
00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 1: And you could take that in life or when you're running.

544
00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:34,600
Speaker 1: And it was like an exercise like go out on

545
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:36,680
Speaker 1: a run and just like listen to what you're saying

546
00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 1: to yourself. And I could not believe like the excuses

547
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 1: that I would come up with, the negative comments I

548
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 1: would like say to myself like oh, like I would

549
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 1: look at my watch and instantly like sabotage myself on

550
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 1: my run. So it started out small, and it started

551
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:54,080
Speaker 1: out with like a couple miles of me just like

552
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 1: like I feel like a psycho, but like on a

553
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 1: loop just being like yes you can, Yes you can,

554
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 1: Yes you can, you can do it. And like saying

555
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 1: these words over and over had such a great impact

556
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:08,400
Speaker 1: on me. So when the second marathon I ran. I

557
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 1: ran a forty one minute PR and I honest yeah,

558
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 1: like it was it was almost like and I know

559
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 1: you guys have probably had these runds before, you know,

560
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 1: when like everything is just flowing and you just feel

561
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 1: like someone's like carrying you forward, like and like you

562
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 1: wished for those moments and for it to haven't at

563
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 1: the marathon was just like I was so grateful and

564
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 1: it was just it was the PR was my body

565
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 1: could have done it always, but it was in my mind.

566
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Speaker 3: So that was like such a huge accomplishment for me.

567
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:41,200
Speaker 2: Isn't it so powerful when you realize that you did that,

568
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 2: Like you did that, you showed up and you put

569
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 2: in the work and that happened because you showed up

570
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 2: for you and that's just really empowered.

571
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:52,719
Speaker 1: It's well, it's like I never thought I could run

572
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:54,680
Speaker 1: a marathon. I never thought I could run a half marathon.

573
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:56,160
Speaker 1: I never thought I could run a ten k, And

574
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 1: it's like you do these things and you're like, who

575
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 1: is this girl? Like I look that and I'm like

576
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,680
Speaker 1: I knew she was always there. But like it's so

577
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:06,800
Speaker 1: cool because you're always becoming and to see like you

578
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:07,960
Speaker 1: your self evolved This.

579
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Speaker 3: Is so awesome. What a rock star. So thanks sm Molly.

580
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 3: What about you?

581
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Speaker 6: Last year, I did what's called a prestige bike race.

582
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Speaker 3: I don't know, it's hard to call it a race.

583
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 3: It's a timed event.

584
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Speaker 6: But uh, it's not like a it's not like a

585
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:29,840
Speaker 6: sanctioned by grace.

586
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 3: It was out in Boulder, Colorado.

587
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:35,719
Speaker 6: I had ridden there a couple of times prior to that,

588
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 6: and I'm garbage at altitude, like truly just no oxygen

589
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 6: to be had, and so I've ridden out there before,

590
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:46,200
Speaker 6: but I could only make it like twenty miles and

591
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 6: then I'm You're out. Like it's very hard coming from

592
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:55,160
Speaker 6: New York City. So this Prestige was I think it

593
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:59,400
Speaker 6: was ninety miles over ten thousand feet of climbing, so

594
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 6: it's just it's a bear. I had a lot of

595
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 6: anxiety going out to it. You do it in teams

596
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,080
Speaker 6: of four, and this event was all women, which was

597
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:13,720
Speaker 6: really special and awesome. I did it with my one

598
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 6: girlfriend from New York and two women from la We

599
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 6: were the sea level team because everybody else was local,

600
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 6: and we were like, this is gonna be so difficult

601
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 6: for us, but you just roll out and you take

602
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 6: it one climb at a time, and during the biggest

603
00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:33,600
Speaker 6: climb of the day, you get to the top of

604
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:35,600
Speaker 6: the mountain and you'd like look out into the most

605
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:39,480
Speaker 6: beautiful vista you can ever imagine, and I just I

606
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 6: was just sobbing, and.

607
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 3: My friend's like, are you okay, are you hurt?

608
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 5: Like what's wrong?

609
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 6: And I was just I was just so proud, Like

610
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 6: I set my mind to doing this thing. I was

611
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 6: going through like a lot of stuff in my personal life,

612
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 6: and I went out there with like a few of

613
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:59,360
Speaker 6: my closest girlfriends and we just did it together. And

614
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 6: finishing that day was just such a huge moment of

615
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 6: pride for me. And you just feel so accomplished. And

616
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 6: it's exactly what you say, You just show up for yourself.

617
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:12,280
Speaker 6: Nobody else did it for you. You know, there's a

618
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 6: ton of people that help you get there, and a

619
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 6: ton of things in your mind that helped you get there,

620
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 6: but at the end of the day, it's just you.

621
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 3: So I think that was really powerful for me.

622
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:21,320
Speaker 5: I think.

623
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Speaker 4: Probably the most like kind of limiting thought that I

624
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:31,400
Speaker 4: had was maybe earlier on in my running career when

625
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:33,520
Speaker 4: I was in college and my coach was trying to

626
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 4: get me to transition to longer distances in high school,

627
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 4: every anybody that's running college kind of goes through this anyway,

628
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:44,080
Speaker 4: where you think you're like so fast at something shorter

629
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 4: than you really are, and you end up being like

630
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 4: encouraged to move up, and that's kind of like where

631
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 4: you shine. So for in high school, I think I

632
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 4: ran like mile two miles, so I was always on

633
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 4: the longer end of the spectrum. And basically I made

634
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 4: a move from doing like cross country and five k

635
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 4: on the track to the ten k. And I really

636
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 4: fought my coach forever about this. I mean I was like,

637
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:13,040
Speaker 4: people go get hot dogs during the ten k? I mean,

638
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 4: how many laughs is it? Like what is the point?

639
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 4: Like it's so boring, like what are we even doing?

640
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 4: So I ran it twice in college, and the second time, no,

641
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 4: I ran it three times in college. And the third

642
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:27,800
Speaker 4: time is when I became one of the first female

643
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 4: All Americans at American University. And so I was like,

644
00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 4: well that went pretty good at NCAA's and so I

645
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 4: think I'm okay with this like really long. You know,

646
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 4: it's still kind of boring, but I'm okay with it.

647
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 4: And so that really helped shape the rest of my

648
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:46,120
Speaker 4: career and get into a lot of road running and

649
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 4: stuff after that. I would say that, you know, my

650
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 4: proudest moment was when I was in this weird transitional

651
00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 4: period between college and running professionally. I was like a

652
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 4: fifth year, like first year master's degree student in psychology

653
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:11,839
Speaker 4: at AU and I wasn't really sure what was going

654
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,560
Speaker 4: to come next. I really wanted to run full time,

655
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 4: and I basically on like Father's Day in June, I

656
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:23,280
Speaker 4: ran this five k because I was living at home,

657
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 4: I didn't really have any money, and my dad was

658
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:32,360
Speaker 4: always so proud of every like running achievement I ever had.

659
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 4: So we did this five k race together and I

660
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:36,440
Speaker 4: want it and I want a new pair of shoes,

661
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:39,799
Speaker 4: and I gave them these shoes. And that's when I

662
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:43,359
Speaker 4: met my professional what would become my professional coach, and

663
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:49,360
Speaker 4: eventually got this sponsorship with Reebok. But it was it

664
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 4: went from something that made me feel really like sad

665
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:54,280
Speaker 4: and kind of like, you know, a loser.

666
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:56,400
Speaker 5: A lot of my friends were going off.

667
00:34:56,480 --> 00:35:01,400
Speaker 4: To like start their careers and getting married and having kids,

668
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:06,279
Speaker 4: all kinds of stuff, and I was really proud of

669
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 4: myself for kind of you know, holding on tight to

670
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:14,120
Speaker 4: my own goals and dreams, because something that seemed very

671
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 4: like attractive and kind of what everybody else was doing

672
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 4: at the next stage of their life ended up being

673
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 4: like the best adventure of a lifetime. You know, running

674
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:27,880
Speaker 4: is giving me everything, traveled around the world, meant wonderful people,

675
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:32,320
Speaker 4: and learned a lot about myself. And so yeah, I

676
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 4: think that was probably like the beginning of, you know,

677
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 4: a very proud moment for me.

678
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:39,560
Speaker 3: I love that. So we talked proud moments.

679
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:42,800
Speaker 2: But what I think is important also to touch upon

680
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 2: might be some of those more difficult times injuries aside.

681
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:47,319
Speaker 2: I know we've wrapped on that a little bit, but

682
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:49,880
Speaker 2: if you can reflect on a certain moment growing up

683
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 2: in sport that taught you a really important lesson for me, I,

684
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:57,440
Speaker 2: as everyone does freshman year. Everyone's a lot on the

685
00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:00,800
Speaker 2: freshman volleyball team in high school, but not the JV

686
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 2: volleyball team fun back. So I came back personally my

687
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 2: sophomore year, not really considering myself an athlete, and I

688
00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 2: had worked so hard over that summer to try to

689
00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:13,400
Speaker 2: run a mile in under ten minutes, and I was

690
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:16,400
Speaker 2: running all the time and was running all the time.

691
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 3: And then it came the day that I had to

692
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 3: run the mile and I.

693
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:21,800
Speaker 2: Couldn't do it in under ten minutes and I didn't

694
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 2: make the JV volleyball team.

695
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 3: And it's funny because.

696
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 2: I look back on that time now because that experience

697
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:29,400
Speaker 2: actually deterred me from sport for a while. I felt

698
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:31,839
Speaker 2: like I wasn't good enough, and how horrible is that

699
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 2: that that's how we talk to young woman.

700
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 3: You're not good enough.

701
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:37,560
Speaker 2: You can't be on this team because you can't do

702
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 2: this little itty bitty thing.

703
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 3: I was great at serving the ball, just FYI.

704
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 2: So that was a moment that really, I mean sadly

705
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 2: at the time to turn me from sport. But I

706
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 2: look back on it now almost with like affection because

707
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 2: I'm like, well, take them be cute. So anything tough

708
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:57,360
Speaker 2: that you guys went through as young athletes, that has

709
00:36:57,440 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 2: framed who you are today.

710
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 1: Just again and being a professional dancer and like on

711
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:05,440
Speaker 1: when I was I was eighteen when I did my

712
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 1: first national tour. I did the Broadway show Grease and

713
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:12,440
Speaker 1: I literally left college for it, Like I left and

714
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:13,800
Speaker 1: was on like a bus.

715
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:14,359
Speaker 5: The next day.

716
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 1: I was like I don't even know what I'm doing,

717
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 1: Like it was wild and even you know, growing up

718
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:23,799
Speaker 1: and dance, weight was a big issue, but we were

719
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 1: being weighed weekly by a male stage manager on Greece

720
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 1: and like now, now me, I would be like absolutely

721
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:35,480
Speaker 1: not like no way. But at the time, you're just

722
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 1: like this is normal and you're standing in line with

723
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:41,359
Speaker 1: girls and now that girl is skinnier than you, and

724
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 1: like it was so damaging. So like the relationship that

725
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 1: and I've like truly I've never been skinny or larger,

726
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 1: like I just I feel like I'm a very just

727
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 1: average looking woman. But my relationship with like the way

728
00:37:57,520 --> 00:37:59,319
Speaker 1: that I looked and the way that other people looked

729
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:02,640
Speaker 1: at it felt like almost competitive, like these girls will

730
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:05,719
Speaker 1: get the best jobs or the best shows because of

731
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:08,600
Speaker 1: how their body looks. So it was really like it

732
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:10,839
Speaker 1: was really hard for me and it took some time

733
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 1: to overcome.

734
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:12,319
Speaker 3: And again it was my.

735
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:14,880
Speaker 1: Injury that really taught me to care less about how

736
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:16,240
Speaker 1: I looked and more about how I feel.

737
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 3: But that was it was rough.

738
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:25,160
Speaker 2: I think your stellar thanks and non average any tough

739
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:26,799
Speaker 2: moments for the two of you to reflect on.

740
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 3: I mean, I talked about my injury.

741
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 6: It certainly changed the trajectory of my life. So that

742
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:37,680
Speaker 6: that was probably the hardest thing I've ever gone through.

743
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:40,640
Speaker 6: And it's something when you have chronic arth, write is,

744
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:43,799
Speaker 6: it's something you it just never goes away. So when

745
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 6: I got the job at Runners World, it's hard for

746
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:52,160
Speaker 6: me to I feel so proud that I could represent

747
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 6: a different voice.

748
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:54,280
Speaker 3: At Runners World.

749
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:58,279
Speaker 6: I didn't grow up running track and field or that

750
00:38:58,400 --> 00:38:59,280
Speaker 6: just wasn't my background.

751
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 3: My background was fit.

752
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 6: So I'm all about sexy pace. That's the pace I run.

753
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 6: It's not slow, it's sexy. You look good running it.

754
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,600
Speaker 2: Molly, talk to me, like, give some more definition to

755
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:14,439
Speaker 2: sexy yea, yeah, yeah, I use sexy pace so much.

756
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 3: And people are like, what does that mean.

757
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 6: It's at runners Leve will go for lunch runs and

758
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:22,880
Speaker 6: you want to, you know, tell people what pace you're running,

759
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:26,960
Speaker 6: and we just don't ever want to.

760
00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 3: Call anything slow.

761
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 6: It's it's negative, it's it just has a negative connotation,

762
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:32,760
Speaker 6: and so we started calling them sexy pace runs.

763
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 3: And you just look good doing it. I mean, nobody

764
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:37,280
Speaker 3: looks good.

765
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:40,560
Speaker 6: Sprinting to a finish line, like you're like drooling at

766
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 6: your mouth. That's not sexy pace. That's like your fast

767
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:47,239
Speaker 6: sprint pace, that's your mile pace. So I'm a big

768
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 6: believer in sexy pace runs. And for me, like it

769
00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:54,480
Speaker 6: the injury. As I became an adult, I had to

770
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 6: learn how to like own this part of me and

771
00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 6: and know that that's valuable too, and that it's okay

772
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:01,839
Speaker 6: that my badackground isn't a certain thing and actually it's

773
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 6: a positive aspect. I can bring a different perspective to things,

774
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 6: I can bring a different voice to things.

775
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:08,480
Speaker 3: So I feel like that's.

776
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 6: Been a journey that I've I've been on, I'm still on,

777
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 6: and but it's it's been really good for me.

778
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 4: I think that I touched on, you know, the most

779
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 4: difficult sort of thing earlier, which is just creating a

780
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:29,640
Speaker 4: life in a space and a career and something that

781
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 4: like wasn't really a thing. You don't get like drafted

782
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 4: to be a professional runner. It's not like you're like

783
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:41,320
Speaker 4: on television like an NBA player, like waiting for somebody

784
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:44,360
Speaker 4: to like pick you for a team and then you

785
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 4: go off and like I don't know what they do,

786
00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:49,440
Speaker 4: like right out of the stadium in a Lamborghini.

787
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,320
Speaker 5: That's not what it was with running.

788
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:59,040
Speaker 4: And you definitely you know everything that you do because

789
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:01,319
Speaker 4: running is kind of an individual sport. You know, there's

790
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:05,480
Speaker 4: aspects of a team sport and cross country, but you

791
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:09,120
Speaker 4: know it's it's on you, right, and so that's a

792
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:11,920
Speaker 4: good thing and a bad thing. The best part is

793
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:13,920
Speaker 4: that you know you can give yourself credit, you know,

794
00:41:14,040 --> 00:41:17,040
Speaker 4: for persevering. And I ran in as a professional for

795
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:20,640
Speaker 4: seven years and I had a really like awesome career

796
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:25,719
Speaker 4: that I'm very proud of, and I think that you know,

797
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:28,879
Speaker 4: it's a it's a non traditional way to go.

798
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:30,440
Speaker 3: Like I said, there was a lot of.

799
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:33,600
Speaker 4: Things happening around me with my peers and people that

800
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:38,400
Speaker 4: ran with me on my college team, and it takes

801
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:42,440
Speaker 4: a lot of courage to do something that's not like, okay,

802
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:45,520
Speaker 4: step one in life is like this, and then you

803
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:48,879
Speaker 4: know step two is that, and you know a lot

804
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 4: of things. I got married, you know later in life.

805
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 4: You know, I don't have any children to this day.

806
00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 4: Like a lot of things that people don't always like

807
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 4: talk about, right, I talked about it all the time

808
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:04,239
Speaker 4: I'm with my colleagues. But again it comes down to

809
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:08,360
Speaker 4: you know, thinking about what it is that you really want,

810
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 4: you know, like what really lights you up right, and

811
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:14,719
Speaker 4: trying your best to like create a life for yourself

812
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:20,800
Speaker 4: that kind of falls around that instead of doing what's

813
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:22,560
Speaker 4: always expected of you.

814
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:27,120
Speaker 2: So definitely, so right now, if this room was full

815
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:35,040
Speaker 2: of young girls, young women, young athletes that you were

816
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:37,319
Speaker 2: just like at one point, if this room was full

817
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:39,799
Speaker 2: of young women and they were looking to you for

818
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:42,919
Speaker 2: some sort of advice on you know, should I keep

819
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:43,919
Speaker 2: with this sport thing?

820
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 3: What should I do? What shouldn't I do? What piece

821
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:53,359
Speaker 3: of advice would you offer these young girls?

822
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:57,759
Speaker 6: I would just I mean, if I'm thinking about my

823
00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:01,480
Speaker 6: younger self, I would just say to believe in yourself.

824
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:05,919
Speaker 6: I mean, the self limiting thoughts and some of those insecurities.

825
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 6: I think that's just a part of being human and

826
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:11,920
Speaker 6: not necessarily a part of being a female. But unfortunately

827
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:18,000
Speaker 6: for females, you know, there's like systemic problems that emphasize

828
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:20,920
Speaker 6: that for us, and some of the things that you

829
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:24,640
Speaker 6: mentioned and the struggles that we've all had are the

830
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:29,000
Speaker 6: system failing us and not necessarily us self limiting because

831
00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:33,320
Speaker 6: of our gender. And so I would want young women

832
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 6: out there to know that they can do whatever they

833
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:38,959
Speaker 6: put their minds to, and that you know we're all

834
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 6: I hope we're all working as hard as we can

835
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:44,960
Speaker 6: to change that for them and to change the root

836
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:48,239
Speaker 6: of the problems and to help them see their potential

837
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:49,719
Speaker 6: and so that they can fulfill it.

838
00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:55,120
Speaker 1: Jeez, I would say, I would say, stop comparing yourself

839
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:57,319
Speaker 1: to the person to the right and left of you,

840
00:43:57,400 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 1: because it's so easy to do. And the more you

841
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:03,760
Speaker 1: can yourself, the more you're taking away all the gifts

842
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:04,919
Speaker 1: that you have to bring.

843
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 3: You know.

844
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:07,799
Speaker 1: I used to think it was like me against this girl,

845
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:10,360
Speaker 1: me against that girl. And the second I realized like, no,

846
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 1: we can all do this together, and we can all

847
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 1: rise higher and vibrate higher together, Like that really changed

848
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:18,880
Speaker 1: everything for me.

849
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:21,320
Speaker 3: And I think it's so important that women.

850
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 1: Encourage and respect and lift up other women, and that

851
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:27,400
Speaker 1: should start from a young age.

852
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:29,719
Speaker 3: Doesn't have to start when you're older. It can start

853
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:30,840
Speaker 3: as kids, you know.

854
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:35,920
Speaker 4: And I think to piggyback off of that, I think

855
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 4: that you know, you can lift other people up if

856
00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:43,240
Speaker 4: you are happy, if you feel lifted, you know, generally,

857
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:45,120
Speaker 4: And I'm not one of those people that thinks like

858
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:48,319
Speaker 4: happiness is like a destination, like check happy. Now I

859
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:51,120
Speaker 4: can just like chill I think, you know, life is hard,

860
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 4: there's lots of struggles. You should try really hard to

861
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:59,360
Speaker 4: find joy. But to that end, I think, especially for women,

862
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 4: we do many things for other people, whether it's like

863
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 4: the comparison thing or like I said, I'm not a mom,

864
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:08,319
Speaker 4: but I have a lot of friends and family who

865
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:11,320
Speaker 4: are you know, just like doing stuff for your family

866
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:16,160
Speaker 4: or your spouse or whatever, or for other people's approval.

867
00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:20,319
Speaker 4: And I think that you know, people forget that, you know,

868
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:24,520
Speaker 4: it's okay to like think about your life in terms

869
00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:26,879
Speaker 4: of like what it is that's truly going to make

870
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:29,840
Speaker 4: you happy, you know, in the race of like trying

871
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 4: to make sure that you can take care of yourself

872
00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:34,399
Speaker 4: and have like food and shelter and do the fun

873
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:36,440
Speaker 4: things that you want to do, make sure that like

874
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 4: that's always at the core of whatever it is. And

875
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:42,200
Speaker 4: you know, I feel like you'll find your way if

876
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:43,880
Speaker 4: you can kind of like stick to that path.

877
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:46,000
Speaker 2: And I think just one other thing that I would

878
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 2: add is that it's okay if things don't go as

879
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:53,080
Speaker 2: you had hoped. And there's so much beauty in what

880
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:56,799
Speaker 2: we might commonly refer to as failure, because when those

881
00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 2: things happen that's an opportunity for us all to learn

882
00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 2: and then reshape that and then move forward. And oftentimes

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00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:05,920
Speaker 2: when we move forward, we're better than when we started. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: winding down here, what does sport look like for you

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Speaker 2: guys today and do you have any goals on the horizon?

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Speaker 6: What does sport look like for me today? Honestly, it's

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00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:22,000
Speaker 6: exactly what you were speaking to. I just try to

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00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:25,120
Speaker 6: do what makes me happy. I'm running a little bit,

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00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:27,000
Speaker 6: riding my.

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Speaker 3: Bike a little bit.

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00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:30,279
Speaker 6: I do a bit of yoga and strength training, and

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00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:36,520
Speaker 6: I'm just in the pursuit of balance, like physically and mentally.

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00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:39,359
Speaker 6: I just you know, I try to wake up every

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00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:41,200
Speaker 6: day and just say, like what do I feel like

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00:46:41,239 --> 00:46:44,000
Speaker 6: doing today? What's going to make me feel good? So

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00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:46,960
Speaker 6: I don't have any races on the calendar, any big events.

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00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 6: I'm just really trying to enjoy it. A lot of

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00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:52,759
Speaker 6: what I remember from being an athlete as a kid,

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Speaker 6: or like the mundane things, like my dad was my

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00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:59,319
Speaker 6: coach and we would lose games, but we'd get in

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00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:01,920
Speaker 6: the car and like play music and sing together. And

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00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:05,479
Speaker 6: I'm trying to as I get older, remember like those

903
00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:06,960
Speaker 6: are those are the big things it's not like if

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00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:08,799
Speaker 6: you won the game or lost the game. It's like

905
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:12,400
Speaker 6: that minutia. It's like being present in those moments and

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00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:14,960
Speaker 6: so on. That's really what it looks like for me today.

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Speaker 5: I'm not racing at all these days. I just want

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00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:21,920
Speaker 5: to run forever, you know.

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00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:24,640
Speaker 4: I just want to go out on a green space

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00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:28,359
Speaker 4: with not too many people, listen to some music, come

911
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:32,560
Speaker 4: back and be like not grumpy, and have my head

912
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:37,279
Speaker 4: feel like clear and sharp, and be available to you know,

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Speaker 4: be able to pour love in every other aspect of

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Speaker 4: my life.

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Speaker 1: So jeez, I mean, yeah, I'm running. I guess I

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Speaker 1: am kind of running a lot this year. I'm taking

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Speaker 1: a break from the New York City Marathon because my

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00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:52,719
Speaker 1: pr was so epic. I'm gonna let it settle, Oh

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00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:55,640
Speaker 1: your subtle vermanute. But I'm going to run the Chicago

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00:47:55,719 --> 00:47:58,239
Speaker 1: Marathon this year. I'm excited for that because it's I

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Speaker 1: hear it's flat.

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Speaker 3: It's very flat. There's one hill that's very at the end. Great.

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Speaker 3: I'm thrilled for that.

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00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:07,360
Speaker 1: I'm running Seaweeds in Vancouver, which I'm like really excited

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00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:10,160
Speaker 1: for because that's supposed to be like the most incredible

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Speaker 1: half marathon, and I just want to continue encouraging other

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Speaker 1: women to enjoy running and find your why behind it

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Speaker 1: and to worry less about your splits and your pace,

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Speaker 1: and just like I just want us all to like

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Speaker 1: get out there because we love it and because it

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Speaker 1: makes us feel good.

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Speaker 2: So well, I just want to take the time to

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Speaker 2: thank the three of you for coming to sit down

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Speaker 2: with me. And again, if you don't subscribe to Hurdle yet,

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Speaker 2: please head on into the iTunes store, rate, subscribe, review,

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Speaker 2: and tune in on the regular.

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Speaker 3: Let's give it up for these ladies right here. Thank you.