5-MINUTE FRIDAY: When Your Own Potential Makes You Giddy
Hurdle with Emily Abbate
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🗓️ 18 October 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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There's something happening right now that I didn't expect, and it's something that I can't quite explain. Talking about how I'm feeling going into the New York City Marathon on November 3, and answering a listener question on how to do a self-audit.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. |
| 0:19.0 | Hey everyone. Emily Abadi here. You are listening to Five Minute Friday from Hurtall. I am feeling a lot better than the beginning of the week. My voice has returned after cheering for friends and loved ones and complete strangers at the Chicago Marathon. And it's been a really great week. |
| 0:39.3 | I'm feeling really motivated and excited now that that's behind me with less than three |
| 0:45.1 | weeks to go until the New York Marathon. |
| 0:48.0 | And what I want to talk about today is this thought process I'm having around the concept of embracing my own potential. I am at a |
| 1:00.0 | point right now where I have no interest necessarily doing things that I did when I was in my |
| 1:07.8 | 20s or early 30s. And this specifically pertains to running. I am pretty confident |
| 1:14.2 | that my days of running sub 330 marathons are behind me. I am so content with the ability to chase my |
| 1:23.6 | own potential as it feels good to me right now as I am in this current body. |
| 1:30.8 | But I would be remiss if I didn't say that I am excelling and performing and running in a way |
| 1:37.2 | that even I am a little bit surprised by right now. |
| 1:42.0 | And so it's such a cool feeling to ask myself, like, |
| 1:48.0 | what could happen for me on November 3rd? And knowing that what my goal is isn't really rooted |
| 1:58.7 | in a number, but rather it's really rooted in a feeling. I want to feel so strong |
| 2:06.1 | and so powerful and really embrace all of this gratitude I have for this process and my city |
| 2:13.1 | and the people that show up on that day. I want to get to the finish line, ideally without hitting |
| 2:19.5 | that wall that we love so much, and have a great freaking time out there. That is my goal. That is it. |
| 2:29.4 | And would I mind snagging some sort of a personal best on the course in the process? Of course not. |
| 2:37.3 | But realistically speaking, I want to have a good time. I want to do what I didn't do in 2021. |
| 2:44.9 | When I totally bonked at Mile 8, I want to see my people and feel the energy and not be so dialed into my |
| 2:55.4 | splits and worrying about whatever it is that my watch says. I just want to experience it in |
| 3:02.5 | all of its amazingness and remind myself and bathe in this feeling that I get to do it. |
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