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Speaker 1: Hey, Hurdler's Emily a body here with five Minute Friday

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Speaker 1: from Hurdle. I have an exciting announcement this Friday. What

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Speaker 1: this episode. So I have a new newsletter. It's called

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Speaker 1: the Weekly Hurdle. It's going to come out on Fridays.

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Speaker 1: to subscribe to Hurdle Weekly. So for this week's five

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Speaker 1: minute Friday story, I did a lot of reflecting this

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Speaker 1: week and really this month, because at the beginning of

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Speaker 1: the month, or right before the beginning of the month,

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Speaker 1: I would say I was mad, okay, well maybe mad

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Speaker 1: as a stretch. I was frustrated. For the past few years.

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Speaker 1: Every single Thursday morning, I would wake up at five

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Speaker 1: forty five am. I'd linger around in bed until five

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Speaker 1: fifty two ish, then get up, pack my bag and

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Speaker 1: make my way down the four flights of stairs, out

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Speaker 1: the door, and down three different escalators toward the New

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Speaker 1: York City Subway at eighty sixth Street on their ber

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Speaker 1: East Side. And now i'd emerge from the que train

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Speaker 1: at Harold Square. I'd be finishing up my coffee in

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Speaker 1: an episode of The Daily before walking into Nike's New

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Speaker 1: York headquarters. There at promptly seven am, I would join

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Speaker 1: a handful of journalists for what we came to call

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Speaker 1: Media Miles. And this was a weekly run that was

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Speaker 1: fun because camaraderie and challenging because we had great access

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Speaker 1: to Nike's top coaches on the regular. Now we have

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Speaker 1: run in everything. We've run in the rain and the snow,

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Speaker 1: and the wind and the sun, and we've run in

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Speaker 1: good times and bad times and during layoff times. Because publishing,

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Speaker 1: we've celebrated personal bests, and so many of the Media

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Speaker 1: Miles Squad runners they've crossed off marathons from their bucket lists,

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Speaker 1: largely due in part to the motivation that they have

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Speaker 1: garnered from this weekly meetup. It's inspiring, really, But when

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Speaker 1: coronavirus took hold over life as we know it in

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Speaker 1: quarantine began and many of us started to order way

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Speaker 1: too many pairs of sweatpants online, this gathering was honestly

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Speaker 1: one of the first things to be put on hold,

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Speaker 1: and it was also one of the things that I

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Speaker 1: missed the most from my regular routine. Now, don't get

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Speaker 1: me wrong, there are other weekly constants, like heading into

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Speaker 1: my twenty fifth Street we work office and seeing my

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Speaker 1: favorite community leaders, or sitting at the dimly lit bar

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Speaker 1: at Bar Preami with a glass of Barillo and hand

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Speaker 1: debating between the Bucatini or the Natella Sunday. I missed

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Speaker 1: those two, but in New York City. Your friends become

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Speaker 1: your family, one big, diverse, all over the place family.

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Speaker 1: And while I am so lucky to have made friends

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Speaker 1: in my time here, I've just never had one big

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Speaker 1: group of friends that did everything together. No Charlotte, Samantha Carrey,

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Speaker 1: Miranda situation where we meet up at the diner every

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Speaker 1: other Tuesday to talk about everything from the fling of

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Speaker 1: the week to work woes. But the media miles in

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Speaker 1: a weird way. This group of humans, it kind of

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Speaker 1: felt a little bit like that, and the good and

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Speaker 1: the bad times. I kept showing up and my family

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Speaker 1: and I just put air quotes around that talking to

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Speaker 1: this microphone. They would be there waiting, without a doubt,

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Speaker 1: the family. They wanted you to be your best, whether

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Speaker 1: I just I think that's pretty special. Anyway, back to

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Speaker 1: the whole frustrated part, So the feelings of aggression, they

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Speaker 1: no longer meet up. As May one approached, we were

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Speaker 1: up to this challenge, according to my garment, I was

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Speaker 1: Come April, I ran twenty six miles total. I was sidelined,

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Speaker 1: as I've talked about here before, with some discomfort in

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Speaker 1: my left glute, my left performance, and I struggled so

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Speaker 1: much with wanting to indulge in the thing that feeds

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Speaker 1: my soul versus taking a step back for the betterment

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Speaker 1: of my body. I was on my fourth week of

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Speaker 1: no running when the challenge came through my inbox, and

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Speaker 1: so yeah, I was frustrated. How would I do this

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Speaker 1: with how things are now? I asked myself, Am I

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Speaker 1: capable of this? I can't even run. We won't be together,

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Speaker 1: it's not the same. I had so many complaints complaining

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Speaker 1: stage one and I did a lot of it to myself.

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Speaker 1: I wrote a slew of expletive filled rants in my journals.

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Speaker 1: I vented on the lightly lined pages about the things

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Speaker 1: that weren't. But by the time May one rolled around,

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Speaker 1: I had to make a commitment to myself. I would

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Speaker 1: stop complaining about the thing I couldn't change and recognize

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Speaker 1: the facts. So these were the facts I wanted to participate.

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Speaker 1: I shouldn't be running a ton, so I decided to

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Speaker 1: start walking. Even if every single one of those fifty

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Speaker 1: May miles were at a seventeen minute mile coffee sipping pace,

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Speaker 1: I would get them done. I knew it. I would

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Speaker 1: be included and I would feel like I was back

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Speaker 1: with my family again. The scenario was a little bit

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Speaker 1: different than before. Granted, no alarm or eerily quiet subway

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Speaker 1: and the sounds of the birds chirping perched on my

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Speaker 1: fire escape permeated through the windowpane. Around six eighteen am,

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Speaker 1: to be specific, I'd put up a kettle, do a

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Speaker 1: series of stretches, and change into a sports bra and

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Speaker 1: leggings and get going with a tumbler of coffee in

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Speaker 1: my right hand. I'd walk down the four flights of

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Speaker 1: stairs and get on my way, not just on Thursdays,

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Speaker 1: though every day. With time, I became less mad about

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Speaker 1: the difference between my new routine and my old routine,

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Speaker 1: and in fact I even came to enjoy the regularity.

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Speaker 1: The familiar scent of fresh tool of signaling springs descent

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Speaker 1: on New York, something that doesn't wane if you're not

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Speaker 1: moving at a sub nine minute mile pace. The sweet

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Speaker 1: bit regardless of just how careful I am. The familiar

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Speaker 1: foot traffic is at an all time lull, and with

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Speaker 1: once I crossed the thirty mile threshold, I got the

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Speaker 1: in oh Man. Was I excited, And on the final

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Speaker 1: I finished off the effort with a five minute stretch

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Speaker 1: of running, pushing the pace. As I saw my watch

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Speaker 1: I started with excuses. I finished optimistic. I finished period.

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Speaker 1: Things just don't always go as we'd hope, But when

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Speaker 1: you're willing to accept them as they are, move forward

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Speaker 1: with what you have and do what you can, there

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Speaker 1: are always going to be lessons to learn and something

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Speaker 1: to gain. As I walked back up the four floorist

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Speaker 1: my apartment with an iced coffee reward in hand, I

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Speaker 1: felt grateful at a hole for the slow miles and

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Speaker 1: the fast miles, my New York City family and the

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Speaker 1: opportunity to keep pushing through. So this week's prompt, what's

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Speaker 1: something you've been dreading that you can do this week

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Speaker 1: and take hold of the opportunity to learn from Again?

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Speaker 1: What is something that you've been dreading that you can

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Speaker 1: learn from all Right, so content picks. I took a

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Speaker 1: virtual cooking class with the New York City Wine and

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Speaker 1: Food Festival alongside Daniel Holtzman and Michael Churnell. You've heard

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Speaker 1: founders of the Meatball Shop and it was so much fun.

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Speaker 1: I highly recommend they're doing a string of these for

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Speaker 1: I also purchased the Meatball Shop cookbook on Amazon immediately

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Speaker 1: following the class. You know, I'm Italian. I have that classic, awesome,

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Speaker 1: guys with an excerpt for my book pick of the week.

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Speaker 1: It is Let Your Mind Run, a memoir of thinking

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Speaker 1: my way to Victory. It's by Dina Cast, another past hurdler. Wow,

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Speaker 1: so much good hurdle vibes in the mix. I am

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Speaker 1: reading it right now. I'm in the home stretch and

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Speaker 1: I cheated myself a little bit because the quote I

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Speaker 1: what I will leave you with. Dina writes on some days,

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Speaker 1: the positive path is harder to find and we have

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Speaker 1: to be relentless in its pursuit. But a better outlook

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Speaker 1: other side our potential and possibility at Emily a Body

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Speaker 1: at Hurdle Podcast, another Hurdle Conquered. Catch you guys next week.