82. Dorothy Beal, 44-Time Marathoner & Creator @MilePosts
Hurdle with Emily Abbate
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4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
“The relationship you have with yourself is the longest relationship you’ll ever have; make it a good one.” To say this episode with runner Dorothy Beal is special would be a total understatement. With more than 75,000 people following along with her day-to-day body positive insights on Instagram as @mileposts, it’s difficult for the Virginia-born RRCA and USATF-certified run coach to remember a time when the sport wasn’t a part of her everyday life.
In episode 82, the mother of three talks to me about the #hurdlemoment she went through during her junior year of college, where she realized that social anxiety and an affinity for drinking were contributing to weight gain and a negative self-image. After braving the scale and seeing a number that frightened her, she had a heart-to-heart with her parents who offered to help her get healthy and foot the bill on some essentials, like a nice pair of shoes and fees for a local road race.
After that? In 2003 she ran her first marathon, and now at 44 total — the sport has forever changed her for the better. We talk about the moment she started blogging about her journey at mile-posts.com, the rise of @ihavearunnersbody and #irunthisbody, and how her community impacts her on the regular. Beal gets super honest about her toughest days, and offers up helpful advice for running newbies and veterans alike.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, hurdlers. Emily Abadi here with another episode of hurdle, a podcast that talks to everyone from entrepreneurs to top CEOs and athletes about how they've gotten through tough times, hurdles of sorts, by leaning into wellness. |
| 0:17.3 | Episode 82 coming at you today with a runner and 44 time marathoner Dorothy Beal. |
| 0:26.1 | Some of you might know her better and she jokes about this today in the episode as her |
| 0:30.9 | Instagram name, which is mile posts. |
| 0:34.1 | I was so happy to connect with Dorothy while she was in town to run the New York City Marathon last weekend, and she crushed it per usual, a sub four-hour performance, just one week after slaying the Marine Corps marathon. |
| 0:50.5 | Before we get into Dorothy's story, quick shout out to my friends at Whoop. Sponsoring today's |
| 0:55.9 | episode, Woop is a wrist-worn heart rate monitor that measures things like strain and sleep |
| 1:01.8 | and recovery. This week, I kind of geeked out, super excited over my 100% sleep score last |
| 1:09.6 | Wednesday night when I don't know whether to be embarrassed or just |
| 1:12.4 | stoked about this. I went to bed at 824 p.m. And it was amazing. The average whoop user actually |
| 1:21.4 | gets a dedicated 41 minutes of sleep more per night. And trust me, it is so, so beautiful. They are offering |
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| 1:38.1 | by using the code hurdle at checkout. Again, head on over to whoop.com. That's W-h-o-op.com and use the code hurdle at checkout to get |
| 1:46.3 | 15% off any membership of free whoop strap and to optimize the way you train. |
| 1:52.4 | Second shout out of the episode to my sponsor, Athletic Greens. With 75 whole food sourced |
| 1:58.7 | ingredients as well as prebiotics, probiotics, probiotics, adaptogens, superfoods. |
| 2:03.5 | Athletic greens is a part of my morning. |
| 2:05.7 | I look forward to every single day because it is me giving back to my body. |
| 2:11.3 | They are offering hurdle listeners a deal you have to take advantage of. |
| 2:15.0 | It is 20 travel packs, a $79 value, absolutely free with your first |
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