5-MINUTE FRIDAY: Escaping the Comparison Trap

Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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🗓️ 30 April 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Earlier this week I had a difficult battle with the comparison trap at the track. I'm talking about it for this week's 5-MINUTE FRIDAY, and how to pull yourself out of a rut and refocus when things are going south.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Emily Abadi here bringing you another episode of 5 Minute Friday from
0:25.9	hurdle. I said this on Wednesday of this week. I'm going to say it again. I know I have a lot of new
0:30.9	hurtlers as I love to refer to my listeners listening to the show. So welcome. I'm so amped to have
0:38.1	you here on 5 Minute Fridays. This is what happens. I share a little story with you all some of
0:43.6	that's going down in my life. I offer you a thought prompt to take you into the weekend or
0:49.0	whatever you are listening to this. And then I share it with you some of my content picks,
0:53.6	some of my highlights of the week and finish things off with a listener question. One thing I want
0:59.4	to note also on Fridays, the weekly hurdle newsletter comes out. I'm going to put a link in the show
1:04.9	notes so that you can subscribe if you don't do that already. This week I'm chatting about the
1:10.3	biggest lessons I learned from my first full year of cycling. I got a road bike last year during
1:16.6	the pandemic. And I swear to God, without that thing, I would have been lost. So sharing all my
1:22.3	takeaways from a year of cycling, offering up some gear recommendations and giving you some
1:27.3	information as well about the new hurdle sessions that just launched. I'm so excited about this. I've
1:32.4	got two on deck. Firstly, a mid year reset. A lot of us got together back in December and January
1:39.3	to talk about our big goals for 2021. And sometimes, you know, life gets in the way. Maybe you're feeling
1:45.3	a little stagnant or maybe right now you're feeling super motivated. Whatever it is,
1:50.6	why ever you feel as though you need a reset, I'm here. I've got your back. So in that session,
1:55.5	I'm going to talk you through how to create an action plan to get the most out of the next six
2:00.4	months of the year. And the other hurdle session I have on deck, I couldn't be more amped about.
2:05.0	And that's because I am joining forces with the ladies from Brave Body Project. I've got Amber
2:09.8	Reese and Lindsey Clayton joining me for a hurdle session on ready for it. So you want to run a
2:15.7	marathon. I have run nine full marathons in my life and way too many halves to count. And I get
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