5-MINUTE FRIDAY: Are You The Only Thing Holding Yourself Back?

Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

For the past couple years, I’ve been running with other journalists and members of the media on Thursday mornings out of Nike’s New York headquarters. When the coronavirus pandemic struck, the #mediamiles group was put on hold. But as May approached, we were presented with the challenge of logging 50 miles solo (and of course, at a safe social distance) on the Nike Run Club app. At first, dealing with injury, I felt scared. I was worried about not doing it to the "best of my ability," and missing out on this time with my friends that have come to feel like family. Today for 5-Minute Friday, I’m talking about the journey, and how I’m #betterforit.

PROMPT: What’s one thing you don’t want to do this week that could positively impact you in the long run? What can you learn from checking a tough to-do off your list?

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0:00.0	Hey, Hurtlers. Emily Abadi here with five minute Friday from Hurtle.
0:20.4	I have an exciting announcement. This Friday, what day are we on here?
0:26.6	May 15th is the first installment of the five minute Friday newsletter that goes with this episode.
0:34.7	So I have a new newsletter. It's called The Weekly Hurtle. It's going to
0:39.9	come out on Fridays. And with the newsletter, the idea is that it will follow the same format as
0:45.5	Five Minute Friday. So you can read the newsletter or you can listen to the podcast. And either way,
0:50.4	just looking for a different way to connect with all of you. Of course, you'll also there
0:56.0	get my content picks. And with time, I will expand this to a little bit of a subscription
1:02.6	model so that hurdle newsletter subscribers can get special awesome stuff in their inbox
1:08.7	that free newsletter consumers will not receive. Of course,
1:12.3	I'm still figuring this all out. I'm brand new to the platform that I'm using. It's called
1:16.2	Substack and I've heard really great things. So stick with me. And if you want to subscribe,
1:21.8	either head on over to hurdle.us and you'll get a prompt to do so over there or click on over to the show notes and
1:28.8	there will be a link in there to subscribe to hurdle weekly. So for this week's five minute
1:35.1	Friday story, I did a lot of reflecting this week and really this month because at the
1:41.2	beginning of the month or right before the beginning of the month, I would say, I was mad. Okay, well, maybe mad as a stretch. I was frustrated. For the past few years,
1:51.5	every single Thursday morning I would wake up at 5.45 a.m. I'd linger around in bed until 5.52-ish,
1:58.4	then get up, pack my bag, and make my way down the four flights of stairs
2:03.6	out the door and down three different escalators toward the New York City subway at 86th Street
2:10.0	on the Upper East Side. Now, I'd emerge from the Q train at Herald Square. I'd be finishing up my
2:15.4	coffee in an episode of the Daily before walking
2:18.2	into Nike's New York headquarters. There at promptly 7 a.m., I would join a handful of
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