#HURDLEMOMENT: How To Beat Anxiety & Nerves Before Your Next Run (Or Really, Any Time)
Hurdle with Emily Abbate
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4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Got a listener question recently that prompted me to flesh out a #hurdlemoment on how to navigate anxiety and worries that go hand-in-hand with gearing up for a big, scary [insert life event]. This particular hurdler wanted to know about navigating pre-run jitters, but the lessons and takeaways in this episode are certainly applicable for anyone gearing up for a big, scary hurdle.
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| 0:00.0 | the nerves that you're feeling, that anxious feeling, that if-iness in your stomach, |
| 0:05.5 | it's a reminder that you care, it's a reminder that you are alive and it is a reminder that you |
| 0:10.6 | get to show up each and every day and go after whatever the hell it is that sets your soul on fire. |
| 0:30.1 | Hey everybody, Emily, a body here. You are listening to another installment of Hurtle Moment |
| 0:38.8 | from Hurtle. A wellness-focused podcast where I sit down with everyone from your favorite |
| 0:43.6 | athletes to top experts and industry CEOs to talk about their highest highs, toughest moments, |
| 0:49.7 | and everything in between. We all go through Hurtles in Life and my goal through these |
| 0:55.1 | discussions is to empower you to better navigate yours and move with intention so that you can |
| 1:00.8 | strive toward your own big potential and of course have some fun along the way. Today I'm doing |
| 1:09.1 | something a little bit unconventional for Hurtle Moment and I am turning a listener question into |
| 1:15.8 | a full-length episode of sorts. No, it's not of sorts, it's a full-length episode. Without |
| 1:22.5 | further ado, let me play you Christine's listener question. Hi, my name is Christine. I currently |
| 1:30.0 | live in Chicago and I'm training for my first marathon. In the past few long runs have been |
| 1:35.7 | pretty hard mentally. I just before I even started I get nervous about the distance and the |
| 1:40.4 | beginning of each run ends up being really hard. So I wonder if you have any advice for |
| 1:46.2 | starting runs, especially long runs with positive vibes and positive energy to try to push you |
| 1:51.9 | and propel you through your run. Thank you. All right, I'm just going to put this out there. Whether or |
| 1:56.6 | not you like running the answer to this question, well answers to this question are 100% relevant to you |
| 2:07.5 | because what Christine is asking is how can I kind of keep my act together? Notice how I didn't |
| 2:14.0 | cost there. How can I keep calm and literally carry on and continue to level up to do hard things |
| 2:23.2 | and whether you're a new Hurtler or a veteran Hurtler, I appreciate you just the same. But you know |
| 2:31.1 | that this is a lot of what we talk about on the show. And so when I heard this question come in, |
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