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Speaker 1: Life is your adventure. It's not a movie, it's not

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Speaker 2: Hey, everyone, EMILYA Badi here bringing you Episode one forty

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Speaker 2: three of Hurdle. While this focused podcast wears it down

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Speaker 2: with inspiring individuals to talk about everything from their big

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Speaker 2: wins to how they've gotten through some of life's toughest moments.

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Speaker 2: Vulnerability, motivation, and candid discussions with everyone from top athletes

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Speaker 2: to aspiring entrepreneurs and what it really takes to follow

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Speaker 2: your passions. My mission is simple to inspire you to

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Speaker 2: fun along the way. I am geeked out about being

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Speaker 2: back in the regular Hurdle flow back to three episodes

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Speaker 2: Now I am bringing an episode to the feed that

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Speaker 3: A long time coming.

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Speaker 2: Probably one of the most requested guests that I get

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Speaker 2: It's crazy to me that we have never crossed paths irl.

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Speaker 1: My adoration for running kind of came flooding back in

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Speaker 2: How did you get away from those disorder eating habits

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Speaker 2: and develop this healthier relationship, not just you know, with food,

503
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Speaker 2: but with exercise in general.

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Speaker 1: I think it was it was accepting having a big

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Speaker 1: change in your life for the positive is very, very

506
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Speaker 1: obviously different to a negative change. A positive change, I

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Speaker 1: think it reverberates through your whole being that you are

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Speaker 1: on a better and stronger path. And I think, whether

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Speaker 1: it's consciously or subconsciously, your homeostasis becomes becomes prevalent in

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Speaker 1: your day to day rather than you struggling for homeostasis

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Speaker 1: within your body. And I think the fact that I

512
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Speaker 1: wasn't trying to escape anything anymore. I wasn't trying to

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Speaker 1: use two hours of running to escape my thoughts or

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Speaker 1: to run off a bite of a cookie I'd had,

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Speaker 1: or whatever it was. I was actually understanding more about

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Speaker 1: the body through the course I was doing. I was

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Speaker 1: meeting such a massive array of people from all over

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Speaker 1: the world who were doing this, who are on the

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Speaker 1: course that I was on, all different shapes, we were

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Speaker 1: all different sizes, we were all different people, And I

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Speaker 1: think it brought me back to reality of Okay, you

522
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Speaker 1: don't need to be like skin and bones. It's not

523
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Speaker 1: going to do any good for you. And the strong

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Speaker 1: guy I was getting by. You know, these classes aren't

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Speaker 1: just academically classroom style classes. You're doing workouts most of

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Speaker 1: the day as well as learning from a textbook. And

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Speaker 1: I was getting so strong, and I talk about this

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Speaker 1: in my strength classes all the time. I still need

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Speaker 1: to get back to being able to do as many

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Speaker 1: push ups as I could when I was in PT

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Speaker 1: school because it was so amazing to see my body

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Speaker 1: get to this level of strength that I just yeah,

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Speaker 1: I just couldn't believe how proud I could make myself

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Speaker 1: in that.

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Speaker 3: Way, which is really special.

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Speaker 2: So you go to PT school and you get this

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Speaker 2: job with Nike, and then how does that enable you

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Speaker 2: and empower you to start doing what it was that

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Speaker 2: your uncle said to you, which was you've got to

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Speaker 2: share this passion of other people.

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Speaker 1: The team who kind of approached me for the Nike

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Speaker 1: Training Club role, they obviously knew that Nike Running Club

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Speaker 1: was coming out in the future, but they couldn't share it.

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Speaker 1: So they took me on board as a trainer who

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Speaker 1: did runs and training very much like a kind of

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Speaker 1: run boot camp sort of thing. And once we could

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Speaker 1: be told about Nike Run Club being launched globally, I

548
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Speaker 1: was one of the leads with one other guy called Cory.

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Speaker 1: It was the two of us who spearheaded it. We

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Speaker 1: were one of five in the world who traveled the world,

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Speaker 1: created these incredible communities in I think in the end

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Speaker 1: it was something like forty seven cities in the world.

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Speaker 1: And it was just that was the biggest flap of

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Speaker 1: a switch in my mind. Of leading runs and warm

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Speaker 1: ups with a bunch of pacers who became really good friends,

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Speaker 1: of organizing every single run route and pace groups to

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Speaker 1: make sure that not one person was ever left out

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Speaker 1: or left behind. And seeing the joys of these people

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Speaker 1: coming week by week two sessions and getting stronger, getting faster,

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Speaker 1: signing up to their first races, doing their tenth race.

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Speaker 1: That it was really I don't know, it was a

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Speaker 1: real big wow moment. To reflect on it with my

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Speaker 1: uncle and I would constantly send him pictures of me

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Speaker 1: at big events and doing you know, we had a

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Speaker 1: run with Kevin Hart in Battersea Park and I was

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Speaker 1: just looked at my colleague at one point I was like,

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Speaker 1: running with Kevin Hart, this is.

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Speaker 3: I was there. I was there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we did them every It was just, you know,

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Speaker 1: there's just these weird things and like I'm sitting next

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Speaker 1: to Paula Radcliffe, who I had the pleasure of working

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Speaker 1: with many times, and Mo Farah and all these people

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Speaker 1: who are and continue to be idols and inspirations to

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Speaker 1: me that you know, I just I really did have

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Speaker 1: to sit down and say to my uncle, I don't

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Speaker 1: know what skills or magical powers you have, and they

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Speaker 1: want you to see this passion would be good for me,

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Speaker 1: but also give me this opportunity to share and bring

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Speaker 1: out to join other people. Was you know if you

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Speaker 1: never asked me when I was little what I wanted

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Speaker 1: to be, it would fluctuate. I wanted to be a

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Speaker 1: lawyer one day, and then the next day I wanted

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Speaker 1: to be a marine biologist. But it was never like

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Speaker 1: somebody who gave back specifically to a community, do you

585
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Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like, it wasn't that sort of role.

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Speaker 1: And now I can't think of doing anything less. Like

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Speaker 1: I know, my calling in life is to help other

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Speaker 1: people believe that they can do anything that they put

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Speaker 1: their minds to do.

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Speaker 3: You believe in the power of manifestation?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, it happens too often for me not

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Speaker 1: to believe in it. I mean, it's you know, it's

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Speaker 1: not a given that it's going to happen, but I honestly,

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Speaker 1: it's always happened to me with my mom ever since

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Speaker 1: I I left him when I was seventeen, and I've

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Speaker 1: lived in so many different places around the world, and

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Speaker 1: whenever I've thought about her, she tends to text me

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Speaker 1: or call me, and it's almost like, I'm like, oh man,

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Speaker 1: I'd really like to speak to my mom. The next

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Speaker 1: thing I know, I get a text or a call,

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Speaker 1: she's there. Wow. I just manifested that into reality.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so we believe a manifestation because we are running

603
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Speaker 2: literally around the world and you're doing something that you

604
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Speaker 2: only had dreamed of. Maybe, so when you're at this

605
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Speaker 2: high point, how do you even comprehend like where to

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Speaker 2: go from there?

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Speaker 1: Like right now, it's super hard to keep putting up

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Speaker 1: these goals. And I mean, if you're talking racing wise,

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Speaker 1: I if I kind of hone it on my my,

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Speaker 1: let's call it semi professional running career.

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Speaker 3: Wellait, wait, wait, let's dial it back first.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So I think what we haven't touched yet is

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Speaker 2: talking about just.

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Speaker 3: How elite of a runner you are.

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Speaker 2: So when do you get to the point where you're

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Speaker 2: running fast, fast, fast, Like, let's first articulate like how

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Speaker 2: fast of a runner that you are? Okay, so let's say, Bex,

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Speaker 2: what is your half marathon.

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Speaker 1: PR one sixteen casual?

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Speaker 3: What is your marathon PR?

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Speaker 1: Two thirty seven?

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Speaker 3: And how fast can you run a mile?

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Speaker 1: Ooh? I never really do a mile time trial, but

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Speaker 1: I would guess around like five twenty five, five fifteen

625
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Speaker 1: something like that.

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Speaker 2: No big deal, okay, So just putting into context what

627
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Speaker 2: we're dealing with here when it comes to Bex Gentry, Bex,

628
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Speaker 2: when do you start like properly racing races in the

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Speaker 2: scheme of things here.

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Speaker 1: I'll let you know when it happens.

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Speaker 3: Oh oh my god, you are totally already doing it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you don't go out and hammer through a

633
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Speaker 2: one sixteen half marathon, you know, like just because you're like,

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Speaker 2: you know what I'm gonna do today. I'm going to

635
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Speaker 2: go recreationally run a half marathon. So talk to me

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Speaker 2: about when like you kind of start really getting into

637
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Speaker 2: running in this way, because it doesn't just happen overnight.

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, no. I mean my first marathon time

639
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Speaker 1: was a three point thirty and that was London Marathon

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Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen, So that's a gay to progression. My

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Speaker 1: my marathon pr was last November New York City Marathon

642
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Speaker 1: two thirty seven.

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Speaker 3: So big differences here, very big differences.

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Speaker 2: Someone hears that and their first question for you is

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Speaker 2: what changed?

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Speaker 3: What do you tell them?

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Speaker 1: A routine? Yeah, you're a routine understanding where my strengths lie.

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Speaker 1: Like you asking me what my mile time is. I

649
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Speaker 1: know my strength is not explosive speed. It is definitely

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Speaker 1: not let's go from the blocks out for one mile

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Speaker 1: as fast as you can. I'm no Allison Felix. You

652
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Speaker 1: know that's the level of runner. I am long distance.

653
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Speaker 1: My powers lie in that mental game of endurance, also power,

654
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Speaker 1: but in a very different way. So I think it

655
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Speaker 1: was recognizing like, Okay, I'm not necessarily going to be

656
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Speaker 1: the firstest five k or ten k runner, but I

657
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:05,359
Speaker 1: need to get some routine and some understanding about how

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Speaker 1: to become a long distance runner.

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Speaker 2: What happened between the three point thirty and the.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, in all honesty, I had that time

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Speaker 1: of my life. I called it the eight weeks of Crazy.

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Speaker 1: I ran my first marathon. So all of this happened

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Speaker 1: in eight weeks, two marathons, two ultra marathons, I turned thirty,

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Speaker 1: and I got married. They were all within the same

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Speaker 1: eight weeks. And the marathon's thing.

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Speaker 3: Going on here, nothing go on here? Okay.

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Speaker 1: Only one of the races was in the UK, in London,

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Speaker 1: that was London Marathon. Everything else that I did was

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Speaker 1: outside of the UK, and the ultra races were insane,

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Speaker 1: like up and over mountains and volcanoes and very very

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Speaker 1: tough races. And I think it's just doing those kind

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Speaker 1: of back to back every other weekend something insane happened,

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Speaker 1: or like weekends in a row. My body just went like, wow, okay,

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Speaker 1: you're tougher than you thought, so let's let's see where

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Speaker 1: we can go with this. And the two mathons I

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Speaker 1: did were London and Rome Marathon, and they were so

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Speaker 1: three thirty and then Rome Marathon was three twenty seven

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Speaker 1: or it was vice versa, but pretty much the same

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Speaker 1: finish time for both of those. And I met Blue

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Speaker 1: Benadam it was early that year, February of that year,

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Speaker 1: who is a very good friend, very accomplished running coach,

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Speaker 1: and he was a fellow Nike running coach as well,

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Speaker 1: and we'd gone for a run at like four in

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Speaker 1: the morning before a big day of coaching in Germany,

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Speaker 1: and I told him my marathon time, my London marathon time,

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Speaker 1: and he remembered thinking, this girl is not a three

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Speaker 1: point thirty marathoner because we're running at in the six

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Speaker 1: minute mile paces at four in the morning and she's

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Speaker 1: still having a full conversation with me. So I He

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Speaker 1: and I became very good friends through Nike Coaching, and

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Speaker 1: we just spent a lot of time talking about different

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Speaker 1: ways of training and different ways of coaching people and

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Speaker 1: trying these things out on ourselves. He is the found

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Speaker 1: one of the co founders, should I say, of the

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Speaker 1: Speed Project, which is a relay race, multi multi team

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Speaker 1: relay race that happens from you run from Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: to Las Vegas. It's three hundred and forty miles and

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Speaker 1: you do it as quickly as your team possibly can. He,

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Speaker 1: as I said, is one of the co founders of this,

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Speaker 1: and the second year of it, he was like, Bex,

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Speaker 1: do you want to join my team for this? So

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Speaker 1: I've done it four times now I think something like that.

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Speaker 1: Four times yeah, and three times running and once hosting,

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Speaker 1: and we are still the record holders on our team.

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Speaker 3: I love that.

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Speaker 2: So you're running and you're getting faster and faster, and

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Speaker 2: you're you're finding these new personal bests and then talk

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Speaker 2: to me about then how this journey of sorts leads

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Speaker 2: you to Peloton.

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Speaker 1: I I think it was. It really honestly, it all

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Speaker 1: stemmed from from Nike. Through Nike Training, I met Rebecca Kennedy,

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Speaker 1: who was also a Nike training coach, and I mean

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Speaker 1: meets then met through like a screen back in the

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Speaker 1: days when you could meet people in person. But she

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Speaker 1: was obviously Northern American territory. I was Europe and we

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Speaker 1: I think we'd been at virtual summits together and through

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Speaker 1: social media we became friends. And she reached out to

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Speaker 1: me in August of twenty seventeen and just said, look,

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Speaker 1: I have this really exciting project. I can't tell you

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Speaker 1: much about it. It's running based. It's an opportunity you

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Speaker 1: don't want to miss. Would you be willing to move

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Speaker 1: to New York? Casual casuals like word okay, very long

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Speaker 1: process of interviews, and I was sort of coming out

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Speaker 1: to New York every month to do on camera auditions,

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Speaker 1: and I just I guess I fit into the team

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Speaker 1: into the cast that they wanted and very very lucky

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Speaker 1: to have been offered the job in December twenty seventeen,

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Speaker 1: and that started my whole life uprouting over here to

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Speaker 1: the US, which was the best thing in the world

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Speaker 1: for me. It sorted out again. It sort of had

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Speaker 1: a trait of bad relationsip and chips of my having

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Speaker 1: the strength to move countries I had the strength to

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Speaker 1: and a bad marriage and restopped in every single way

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Speaker 1: over here in New York.

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Speaker 2: You've mentioned in both of these circumstances and both of

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Speaker 2: the bad relationships that you referenced that at both times

761
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Speaker 2: you were leaning into sport, maybe more so than before.

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Speaker 2: Talk to me about how sport helps you get through

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Speaker 2: tough times.

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Speaker 1: It's cathartic for me. I have definitely learned not to

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Speaker 1: abuse my body when it comes to using sport or

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Speaker 1: running as a release. I've learned that the most gentle

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Speaker 1: run can be the most therapeutic for me, and so

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Speaker 1: the act when I'm feeling a little bit frantic in

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Speaker 1: my own brain or overwhelmed or sad. The act of

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Speaker 1: putting on my running kit, lacing up my trainers, and

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Speaker 1: that almost literal beep on my watch of start transports

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Speaker 1: me into what some people may say a selfish mode,

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Speaker 1: what I would argue to my last breath as being

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Speaker 1: a something that's so far from seth which I don't

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Speaker 1: even think of the right word. It's a saving into

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Speaker 1: my own saving mode, and it clears my mind, It

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Speaker 1: focuses me, It helps me flick through the rolodex of

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Speaker 1: crap that sometimes is my brain. And even if it's

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Speaker 1: not a conscious thing, quite often it is. You know,

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Speaker 1: you're literally going through, like almost turning the pages of

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Speaker 1: your own brain. But sometimes it just you switch off,

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Speaker 1: you go into a meditative state, and you come back.

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Speaker 1: And either way that it happens. I feel like once

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Speaker 1: I get in the shower or when I'm stretching, when

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Speaker 1: I get home, I feel so much calmer. And even

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Speaker 1: if nothing about my day has changed, if I know

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Speaker 1: that the minute I'm dressed it's going to go back

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Speaker 1: to being quite a frantic day, I just feel a

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Speaker 1: little bit more prepared to handle it in a logical

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Speaker 1: and correct way.

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Speaker 2: Correct No, I mean I can totally identify. I think

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Speaker 2: sometimes by taking that time to give back to ourselves

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Speaker 2: that we can better show up for, you know, the

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Speaker 2: people that we care about, our obligations, the things that

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Speaker 2: are on our to do list, and so on and

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Speaker 2: so forth.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, I mean I stay it in class all the time,

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Speaker 1: and I've said it already to you. As an individual,

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Speaker 1: you are the only person in the way of your goals.

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Speaker 1: There's nobody else who's actually stopping you. People can give

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Speaker 1: you all the attitude and or the opinion that they

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Speaker 1: want on your goals, but if you don't go for

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Speaker 1: that run because you can't be bothered, or you don't

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Speaker 1: make that training session because you'd rather watch the next

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Speaker 1: TV show, you're the person putting up the roadblock there,

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Speaker 1: and if you can't be the person who finds a

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Speaker 1: way to get through the potential roadblock. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you've listened to Matthew McConaughey's book Green Lights, but

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Speaker 1: his way of explaining this of like, people think that

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Speaker 1: successful people have always got green lights that always just

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Speaker 1: on a free flowing road, and that they never have

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Speaker 1: those amber or yellow lights. But the difference is between

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Speaker 1: these people is that the person who you think always

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Speaker 1: has the green light has actually taken the time to

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Speaker 1: look ahead, identify the amber lights and the red lights

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Speaker 1: and pick and choose either how to get around them

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Speaker 1: or how to use them as a stop or a

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Speaker 1: pause to their advantage.

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Speaker 3: Love that, Yeah, it's just.

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Speaker 1: Like wow, oh my gosh.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I also use I also love your use of

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Speaker 2: the word amber personally. So something that I have struggled with,

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Speaker 2: and I wonder if you feel this way as well,

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Speaker 2: is that as someone who wants to encourage the best

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Speaker 2: for people literally, like my personal mission is helping to

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Speaker 2: encourage the hurdlers to live healthier and happier lives and

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Speaker 2: find motivation.

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Speaker 3: I struggle sometimes with getting to this place where.

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Speaker 2: I can only do so much and I can't make

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Speaker 2: that person actually take the step right Like, I can

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Speaker 2: provide them with inspiration, I can help provide them with

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Speaker 2: the tools, but if they don't want that health for themselves,

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Speaker 2: if they don't want to take that step actually, then

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Speaker 2: I can't.

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Speaker 3: Force it on them. Do you ever feel that way?

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, yeah, on so many different levels as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think it's just like sometimes I hear,

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Speaker 2: you know, in my DMS or in emails, it's just

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Speaker 2: like the excuse making and sometimes I just want to

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Speaker 2: I want to shake these people that I care about

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Speaker 2: so much because I want them to get out of

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Speaker 2: their own way. Like, what would you tell someone who

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Speaker 2: is the person that's standing in their own way, who

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Speaker 2: is the person that's you know, watching the TV show

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Speaker 2: or you know, they're on the couch, they're not taking

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Speaker 2: that leap of faith.

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Speaker 1: I think I generally bring it back to the kind

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Speaker 1: of the speculation or the reality of your goals. We

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Speaker 1: can all sit back and speculate about the what ifs

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Speaker 1: or perhaps or oh I should do this. And I

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Speaker 1: I hate the word should. It's such a bane of

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Speaker 1: my vocabulary because I think it's it's something that doesn't

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Speaker 1: isn't necessary to exist. That if it's a should, it's

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Speaker 1: more than likely if you've got that opportunity, it's and

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Speaker 1: I can or I will or I hope to. Should

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Speaker 1: is just so so annoying to me. But anyway, reverting that,

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Speaker 1: I would say to that person that if you don't try,

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Speaker 1: and it's so cute, you're never gonna know. So rather

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Speaker 1: than just sit back and be almost that's more selfish.

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Speaker 1: I think personally on your on yourself to sit back

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Speaker 1: and not try and just to presume that you'll get

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Speaker 1: the opportunity to do it another day. It's quite selfish.

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Speaker 1: I think that getting the opportunity to wake up and

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Speaker 1: give life a damn good go every single day is

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Speaker 1: something that we definitely all should do and as that

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Speaker 1: should again and how many of the gratitude journals, and

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Speaker 1: I mean, I personally don't keep one, but I reflect

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Speaker 1: on my day. My boyfriend and I were having this

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Speaker 1: conversation literally the other night of He's like, do you

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Speaker 1: actually like go through your day when you get into

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Speaker 1: bed and like close your eyes? And I was like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I genuinely do. Every night, I kind of go through

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Speaker 1: my day. I don't necessarily pinpoint out something that makes

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Speaker 1: me feel grateful or made me feel great, but I

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Speaker 1: just sort of do an overview of what happened, and

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Speaker 1: I make sure that if there was something pretty big,

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Speaker 1: it's filed in a memory bank. I don't want to

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Speaker 1: forget it. And I would hate for that person who

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Speaker 1: just doesn't take the opportunity to go to bed every

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00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:24,560
Speaker 1: night wishing that their day had been different, Because you're

881
00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:27,160
Speaker 1: the person like you're going to end up hating yourself

882
00:52:27,719 --> 00:52:28,760
Speaker 1: and that's really sad.

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Speaker 2: What has been one of the biggest lessons that you

884
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:38,800
Speaker 2: have learned in your last couple years with Peloton.

885
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Speaker 1: That real life is very different to stuff that is

886
00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:50,920
Speaker 1: portrayed through a screen, whatever screen that is. And with that,

887
00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:54,880
Speaker 1: comparing yourself to other people, be it on any screen,

888
00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:59,719
Speaker 1: in any publication, or even on the street sitting next

889
00:52:59,719 --> 00:53:04,560
Speaker 1: to your your sofa is never going to set you

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Speaker 1: up for consistent positivity. I definitely yeah. I just think

891
00:53:11,080 --> 00:53:13,360
Speaker 1: it's too much today, Like we live in such a

892
00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:17,760
Speaker 1: world of it's almost like one upping all the time,

893
00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:21,279
Speaker 1: you know, I think I'm I love social media, but

894
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Speaker 1: I also hate it also. I think it's sometimes really

895
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Speaker 1: manipulative and used in the wrong way, but it's also

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00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:34,880
Speaker 1: invigorating and inspiring and gives people an outlet. It allows

897
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Speaker 1: people to feel better if they read something they you know,

898
00:53:39,719 --> 00:53:42,880
Speaker 1: may pour certain people out of a terrible place. But

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Speaker 1: at the same time, I think we definitely need to

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Speaker 1: understand that comparing yourself to somebody on the other side

901
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Speaker 1: of a screen who you don't know, especially in running

902
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:56,879
Speaker 1: or training, like it doesn't matter if you can't run

903
00:53:56,880 --> 00:54:01,400
Speaker 1: as fast as like I don't myself to Paula Radcliffe

904
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Speaker 1: the fact that we both run. I aspire to have

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Speaker 1: a career as long as hers and as wonderfully happy

906
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Speaker 1: as hers, alongside having a beautiful family. But I don't

907
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Speaker 1: necessarily put myself down because I don't have a two

908
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Speaker 1: fourteen marathon under my belt.

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Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, No, I totally get it.

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Speaker 2: And as someone who is, you know, on the other

911
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Speaker 2: side of the screen for so many people, so often

912
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Speaker 2: as a peloton instructor, how are you giving back to

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Speaker 2: yourself to help better show up for these people in

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Speaker 2: your community.

915
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Speaker 1: I am a real advocate for real talk. I will

916
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Speaker 1: happily jump on my Instagram as and when I please.

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Speaker 1: I have no schedule, as you probably have noticed, I'm

918
00:54:51,239 --> 00:54:53,080
Speaker 1: definitely not a person who's like, all right, I post

919
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Speaker 1: on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednday, Thursday, Fridays Essay at this time,

920
00:54:56,560 --> 00:54:59,960
Speaker 1: and that may be to detriment of what people perceive

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Speaker 1: to be a good following, but to be honest, I

922
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Speaker 1: can't let it take over my life that much. I

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Speaker 1: post when I have something genuine to say. I some

924
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Speaker 1: days may post fifty Instagram stories because I'm just having

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Speaker 1: a particularly interesting or what I deem to be interesting

926
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Speaker 1: to other people's day, which, to be honest, is kind

927
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Speaker 1: of rare in this current climate, but I definitely try

928
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Speaker 1: to On days when I'm with family and friends, I

929
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Speaker 1: put my phone away. I don't think the world needs

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00:55:34,760 --> 00:55:38,480
Speaker 1: to know what Austin and I are doing on a Saturday,

931
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Speaker 1: unless it's something cute. See like we went to shop

932
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Speaker 1: a Christmas tree down you know, something that everybody's doing,

933
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Speaker 1: but they don't need to know that we're sitting watching

934
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Speaker 1: Netflix and having a bottle of wine. But that's just

935
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Speaker 1: my personal opinion. Other people love sharing every element of

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Speaker 1: their life and that's very on brand for them, But

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Speaker 1: for me personally, I have to give myself back private time.

938
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Speaker 1: I don't want everybody knowing everything about me and my

939
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Speaker 1: personal life. Whatever I give at Peloton is it's open,

940
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Speaker 1: but behind the scenes, I really pick and choose what

941
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Speaker 1: I share and how often my phone's in my hand.

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Speaker 2: When someone goes to your Instagram page, they see Beck's Gentry,

943
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:30,359
Speaker 2: the Peloton instructor with seventy one thousand plus followers. When

944
00:56:30,400 --> 00:56:33,040
Speaker 2: you look in the mirror, what is it that you

945
00:56:33,239 --> 00:56:34,239
Speaker 2: see looking back at you?

946
00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:41,759
Speaker 1: A tired version of the kid I've always seen.

947
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Speaker 2: Me.

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Speaker 1: I honestly, you know, I'm sure we all do this.

949
00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:52,000
Speaker 1: We look in the mirrorm and we're like, wow, when

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00:56:52,080 --> 00:56:54,960
Speaker 1: did this happen? I think I still live at home

951
00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:57,479
Speaker 1: with my parents in my mind, and I'm thirteen, should

952
00:56:57,480 --> 00:57:02,680
Speaker 1: be going to school. But I mean it changes. There

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Speaker 1: are days when I do have a bit of a

954
00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:12,520
Speaker 1: low day, or you know, I'm certainly like everybody right now,

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Speaker 1: I'm really missing my family. I haven't seen them in

956
00:57:15,880 --> 00:57:18,160
Speaker 1: a year, and I'm not going to be able to

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00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:22,440
Speaker 1: see them for a really long time. And it's just

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00:57:22,520 --> 00:57:24,960
Speaker 1: that you get yourself a little bit down and you

959
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:30,440
Speaker 1: feel a little bit blur about everything, even though I

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00:57:30,560 --> 00:57:33,480
Speaker 1: know that I am so blessed and very very lucky,

961
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Speaker 1: very privileged in my life, and I think sometimes I

962
00:57:38,120 --> 00:57:39,800
Speaker 1: just have to look at myself in the mirror and

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00:57:39,800 --> 00:57:42,680
Speaker 1: look at myself in the eye and remind myself of

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00:57:42,720 --> 00:57:48,600
Speaker 1: that and that you know, these times will pass, and

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Speaker 1: that I am a badass runner. And I finish New

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Speaker 1: York City Marathon. It's the first non elite female and

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00:57:56,960 --> 00:58:03,440
Speaker 1: I can thrive in situations that I don't necessarily or

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00:58:03,440 --> 00:58:06,440
Speaker 1: I didn't necessarily think I could, So I just have

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00:58:06,560 --> 00:58:09,000
Speaker 1: to sort of bring some of those strong moments to

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00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:14,400
Speaker 1: my mind, and it helps reinforce that present, that moment

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Speaker 1: of strength that I need in a moment of weakness.

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Speaker 2: That first non elite female sentence. Does that ever get old?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 3: Definitely not.

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Speaker 2: Describe to me quickly how you felt when you crossed

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Speaker 2: the finish line in two thirty seven oh one.

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Speaker 1: I cried someone who actually I think she's a Peloton member,

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00:58:41,760 --> 00:58:45,120
Speaker 1: or she may be a Peloton employee. I apologize if

979
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Speaker 1: you're listening to this and I get it confused. I

980
00:58:48,240 --> 00:58:51,080
Speaker 1: know that you are a wonderful person, that's for sure.

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Speaker 1: She was at the finish I'm working for, working at

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00:58:55,760 --> 00:59:01,520
Speaker 1: the marathon that day, and she happened to I don't

983
00:59:01,520 --> 00:59:04,600
Speaker 1: know whether she saw me coming or what, but got

984
00:59:04,680 --> 00:59:08,000
Speaker 1: her phone out and recorded me literally like on the

985
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:11,400
Speaker 1: finish line coming over. And I my really good friend

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Speaker 1: Matthew Mayer was on the finish line. He'd finished three

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Speaker 1: minutes ahead of me, and we shared some miles together

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Speaker 1: during the race. He was I hobbled towards him and

989
00:59:24,720 --> 00:59:31,400
Speaker 1: just re embraced and cried, and nothing was real. I

990
00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:34,800
Speaker 1: didn't know. I just remember seeing my time and thinking

991
00:59:35,160 --> 00:59:37,680
Speaker 1: it was wrong. I didn't know I was the first

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Speaker 1: female at that point. I'd been told since the fifth

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Speaker 1: kilometer that I was leading as a non elite female,

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Speaker 1: which just FYI was a very big weight on my

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Speaker 1: shoulders for the remaining such a seven kilometers and no race,

996
00:59:55,200 --> 01:00:00,360
Speaker 1: but yeah, it was. It was crazy. It was one

997
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Speaker 1: of those moments like, I you run New York, right.

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01:00:04,840 --> 01:00:08,080
Speaker 3: Yes, four times? I guess five times if you count

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Speaker 3: virtual Kay.

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Speaker 4: You're crazy, by the way, but you know what it's

1001
01:00:15,080 --> 01:00:17,120
Speaker 4: like when you when you finish new your math and

1002
01:00:17,200 --> 01:00:20,960
Speaker 4: unless you've bought, like paid for that extra whatever it is,

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Speaker 4: you have to go up to eighty.

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01:00:24,240 --> 01:00:30,960
Speaker 1: Second to exit. Now that walk is a uphill, be

1005
01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:38,080
Speaker 1: in the shade in November, and it's let's say half

1006
01:00:38,120 --> 01:00:41,160
Speaker 1: a mile to a mile. Once you do a double

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01:00:41,200 --> 01:00:45,080
Speaker 1: back down to Columbus Circle, it's definitely over a mile

1008
01:00:45,240 --> 01:00:51,040
Speaker 1: of oh yeah. And so Matt had paid or he'd

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01:00:51,120 --> 01:00:54,360
Speaker 1: been given because he's such a feminous runner the early

1010
01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:57,160
Speaker 1: exit with you know the posh poncho that people get,

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01:00:57,320 --> 01:01:01,320
Speaker 1: not just the tinfoil one, and he bless him, tried

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01:01:01,360 --> 01:01:04,040
Speaker 1: to take me through. He was like, she's just finished.

1013
01:01:04,080 --> 01:01:06,200
Speaker 1: We think she's the first female, like let her come,

1014
01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:08,600
Speaker 1: and they were like, no, no, you don't have the

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01:01:08,680 --> 01:01:12,880
Speaker 1: right wristband. I was like, okay, whatever, fine, So he

1016
01:01:13,040 --> 01:01:15,120
Speaker 1: kind of he was like I'll give you mine and

1017
01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:19,960
Speaker 1: gentlemanly offerings, but I kind of carried on walking and

1018
01:01:20,440 --> 01:01:23,920
Speaker 1: plodded my way up to eighty second, finally got out

1019
01:01:24,080 --> 01:01:27,680
Speaker 1: and walked my way back down to Columbus Circle. And

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Speaker 1: this whole time I was like, wow, I may well

1021
01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:35,360
Speaker 1: have been the first female to finish, but it doesn't

1022
01:01:35,400 --> 01:01:38,000
Speaker 1: make a done of difference. I was still there with

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01:01:38,400 --> 01:01:43,320
Speaker 1: every other person who'd finished. We were all like grumbling

1024
01:01:43,360 --> 01:01:46,680
Speaker 1: at this like death march that we were doing to

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01:01:46,720 --> 01:01:50,360
Speaker 1: get back to our family and friends. And it was

1026
01:01:50,600 --> 01:01:54,800
Speaker 1: just that, to me was the most special moment of

1027
01:01:55,600 --> 01:01:59,160
Speaker 1: remembering why we go to these races, why we trained

1028
01:01:59,240 --> 01:02:04,440
Speaker 1: for weeks and months, not just a pr It is

1029
01:02:04,720 --> 01:02:10,120
Speaker 1: just to be in that incredible community and be No

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01:02:10,160 --> 01:02:12,560
Speaker 1: matter what your finished time is, you're all the same.

1031
01:02:12,680 --> 01:02:15,720
Speaker 1: You're all grumpy runners who have just run twenty six

1032
01:02:15,760 --> 01:02:18,480
Speaker 1: points two want to take your shoes off and sit

1033
01:02:18,520 --> 01:02:19,280
Speaker 1: down and have a beer.

1034
01:02:21,000 --> 01:02:23,520
Speaker 3: What excites you right now? Bet?

1035
01:02:25,080 --> 01:02:28,280
Speaker 1: My puppy is my main sort of excitement in my

1036
01:02:28,320 --> 01:02:32,160
Speaker 1: life right now? Who has just added snoring, so I

1037
01:02:32,240 --> 01:02:41,680
Speaker 1: apologize around snoring his head off. I'm excited by what

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01:02:41,720 --> 01:02:45,160
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one could bring us in racing. I think

1039
01:02:45,320 --> 01:02:48,640
Speaker 1: that there's been a lot of people who've stayed very

1040
01:02:48,680 --> 01:02:52,080
Speaker 1: fit and very healthy throughout this past year and who

1041
01:02:52,120 --> 01:02:54,720
Speaker 1: are going to be jumping at the bit to go

1042
01:02:54,840 --> 01:02:57,840
Speaker 1: for it in some races if they happen next year.

1043
01:02:57,880 --> 01:03:02,800
Speaker 1: And I'm so I'm very excited to see what culminates

1044
01:03:02,880 --> 01:03:07,440
Speaker 1: on those finish lines in certain big races.

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Speaker 2: I love that. Okay, And so we come to the

1046
01:03:10,840 --> 01:03:16,520
Speaker 2: final question. Right now, you have an opportunity to give

1047
01:03:16,800 --> 01:03:21,480
Speaker 2: yourself a piece of advice looking back perhaps on that

1048
01:03:21,600 --> 01:03:24,720
Speaker 2: trip to Naples, Florida, on the bes going through that

1049
01:03:24,880 --> 01:03:28,200
Speaker 2: huge hurdle moment in her life, feeling like she's struggling,

1050
01:03:28,360 --> 01:03:31,960
Speaker 2: feeling unhappy in her own body. You have an opportunity,

1051
01:03:31,960 --> 01:03:34,320
Speaker 2: looking back on that now to offer her a piece

1052
01:03:34,320 --> 01:03:35,520
Speaker 2: of advice in that hurdle moment.

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01:03:35,640 --> 01:03:37,240
Speaker 3: What do you tell her?

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01:03:39,520 --> 01:03:45,160
Speaker 1: Well, my main piece of advice that I've always sort

1055
01:03:45,200 --> 01:03:51,320
Speaker 1: of stayed true to saying that I would kind of

1056
01:03:51,480 --> 01:03:56,800
Speaker 1: tell a younger self, life is your adventure. It's not

1057
01:03:56,880 --> 01:03:59,520
Speaker 1: a movie. It's not a book, it's not an advert.

1058
01:04:00,160 --> 01:04:04,200
Speaker 1: It's something that you create and it's not necessarily always

1059
01:04:04,320 --> 01:04:08,240
Speaker 1: going to have happy parts. But you are the only

1060
01:04:08,360 --> 01:04:13,480
Speaker 1: person in control of how your story plays out, So

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01:04:13,520 --> 01:04:15,720
Speaker 1: why don't you make it the most epic adventure you

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01:04:15,800 --> 01:04:16,480
Speaker 1: possibly can?

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Speaker 2: Beautiful Banks, Let me know, how do the hurdlers keep

1064
01:04:21,400 --> 01:04:23,200
Speaker 2: up with you? How do we follow along with you?

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01:04:23,480 --> 01:04:25,160
Speaker 2: Give me all of the details.

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01:04:25,320 --> 01:04:28,240
Speaker 1: Well, you can find me on Instagram. It's at best gentry,

1067
01:04:28,400 --> 01:04:32,240
Speaker 1: super simple, or you can hop on to Peloton through

1068
01:04:32,280 --> 01:04:34,360
Speaker 1: the app, or if you have a piece of hardware,

1069
01:04:34,520 --> 01:04:38,360
Speaker 1: you can find me on Peloton in running classes, in

1070
01:04:38,440 --> 01:04:45,280
Speaker 1: strength classes, in stretching classes, and when the studio opens

1071
01:04:45,520 --> 01:04:49,240
Speaker 1: in the future, I hope to see people in real

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01:04:49,280 --> 01:04:50,760
Speaker 1: life running as well.

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Speaker 2: I ar Elle, thank you so much for your time today.

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01:04:54,600 --> 01:04:56,200
Speaker 2: I can't tell you how much I appreciate it.

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01:04:56,560 --> 01:04:59,400
Speaker 1: Thank you for your time. It's been amazing to talk

1076
01:04:59,440 --> 01:05:02,400
Speaker 1: to you, and I hope that we can get some

1077
01:05:02,480 --> 01:05:04,080
Speaker 1: mild in together in the future.

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Speaker 3: Amen.

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Speaker 2: Amen, I'm over at Emily a Body and at Hurdle

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Speaker 2: Podcast Another Hurdle Conquered.

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Speaker 3: Catch you guys next time.