Any run can be good when you're with good people, the pace is fun, you're looking around, you're enjoying it, you're in the moment, and you get home safe.

I mean, you're even saying here that like a bad run could be a good run.

Oh, I embrace my bad runs, for sure. They're the ones that probably give me the most amount of progress, right?

If I don't have a bad run, I'm probably not pushing myself hard enough or not going after big enough goals, so I love a good bad run.

Hey everybody, Emily Abadi here. You are listening to Hurdle. A wellness focus podcast where I connect with everyone from your favorite athletes to top experts in industry CEOs about their highest highs, toughest moments, and everything in between.

We all go through hurdles in life, and my goal through these discussions is to empower you to better navigate yours, and move with intentions so that you can stride toward your own big potential, and of course have some fun along the way.

Now if you're an avid hurdle listener, you may be wondering, what is this special episode doing in my feed on a Thursday? Well, I'm here to gift you the gift of better running this week.

I had the honor of sitting down with four amazing humans. I'll get to their names in just a second to have a conversation about tackling all of the hurdles that we face on the run.

In honor of the upcoming New York City marathon on November 7th. Now I hosted this conversation in that community with my friends at Louis Lemon.

We had it inside their fifth avenue store at their venue called Hub 17, and honestly it was such a joy, just such a wonderful opportunity to be able to get together with this New York City running community that has given me so much.

Now, like I said, I had some really great guests for this conversation that you're going to hear from today.

First up, Matt James, Louis Lemon Ambassador, and founder of ABC Food Tours, Cheryl Donald, a Brooklyn Track Club teammate of mine, a staple in running culture here in New York.

Also, Tim West, a founder of Bandit Running, another Brooklyn Track Club teammate of mine, and last but certainly not least, Melody Weston.

She is the SVP of development and marketing at back on my feed. Now we actually held a raffle on site and donated all of the proceeds to back on my feed.

So I was so, so stoked to be able to do some good and again that come together in a moment that we haven't had in quite some time leading up to my just my favorite time in New York City.

Like I mentioned, we did have a raffle. I do want to thank so many of the amazing brands that donated items for us to raffle off, including my good friends at Motiv, where I go for physical therapy down on Mount Street here in New York, as well as Athletic Greens,

Element Beam, Inside Tracker, Bandit, Louis Lemon, and Hyper Ice. Now, this is exciting on the Hyper Ice Note.

If you are at the event on site in New York, then you may have seen a beautiful array of so many of my favorite Hyper Ice products and some of you even use them later around in some Norma Tech boots gained all of the benefits of solid recovery moment.

Well, I have some news. It's been a long time coming. Hyper Ice is hurdles newest sponsor. I have been, oh my God, I've been using Hyper Ice products for years now. They are 125% a part of my feel better solution to compact both the repercussions of my training and the strain of daily life as a woman running my own business and also literally running around everywhere.

A huge, huge thank you to the Hyper Ice team for supporting the show. I'm going to talk more about some of my favorite products in just a little bit, but in the meantime, of course, we do have a discount for you.

Do what you love more and discover their collection of Hyper Ice products at Hyper Ice.com. Use the code Hurdle10. That's Hurdle10. I check out to get 10% off all Hyper Ice tech, including Norma Tech and Hyper Vault.

Again, use code Hurdle10 at checkout to get 10% off your purchase today. This is something that so many of you have been asking me for for so, so long and so it makes me so happy to announce this and to be able to offer this to you and to move into this new chapter of this partnership with Hyper Ice.

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