5-MINUTE FRIDAY: Flexibility in Every Season
Hurdle with Emily Abbate
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4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Diving into the highs and lows of the Scottsdale trip for the Final Four. Plus: How what started as an ambitious plan for a high-mileage run along the canal turned into a powerful lesson in grace, body awareness, and the "both/and" of recovery.
Also! Answering a listener question from Christine about navigating energy slumps after long runs, offering practical advice on recovery windows and the essential role of post-run nutrition.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:20.5 | Hey, it's me. Emily here. You're listening to Five Minute Friday from Hurtle. And wow, I was just looking at the forecast for next week. It's going to be 85 degrees in New York on Tuesday. This is what I'm talking about, although it is a little concerning that it was |
| 0:38.6 | literally 38 degrees today. So I'm not too sure what's going on there. I digress. What's going on? |
| 0:47.8 | Hi. Hello. I need to tell you about my run last weekend. So last weekend, I went to the final four. I talked to y'all |
| 0:57.5 | about my trip with my dad. It was so much fun. We, we being Yukon, did not make it to the final, |
| 1:05.0 | but I'm so happy that we went nonetheless. I'm so happy that we took the trip. I'm happy I listened to the whisper. |
| 1:12.6 | It was really nice to be in the sunshine there and really great to spend some quality time |
| 1:17.1 | with my dad on Saturday, Saturday morning in Scottsdale where we were staying. I decided to go for a run. |
| 1:26.9 | They have a really beautiful |
| 1:28.9 | running path along a canal there that I love to hit whenever I'm in town. And so I went out |
| 1:34.5 | and I had aspirations to run like eight or nine miles, which before what I went through |
| 1:43.0 | over the last few weeks was very much within the wheelhouse. |
| 1:47.0 | And I've been feeling good in my body. |
| 1:49.3 | I've been getting back into the swing of things with movement. |
| 1:52.6 | And so I thought, let's go for it. |
| 1:55.9 | And so I got out. |
| 1:57.7 | And within, gosh, two minutes of running, I made the conscious decision. It was always going |
| 2:07.1 | to be an easy run. But I was like, I'm just going to take it really easy. I really don't |
| 2:13.8 | feel like doing it as I'm continuing on. And I tell myself, okay, just get to 10 minutes. |
| 2:17.7 | This is a benchmark rule for me in my wellness practice. Always do 10 minutes of something. And especially |
| 2:26.2 | when you don't feel like doing it, I promise you 99.9% of the time, once you get to 10 minutes, |
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