#HURDLEMOMENT: How to Handle Post-Marathon Blues

Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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Health & Fitness

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Now what? It’s the inevitable question we all ask ourselves after we complete any race — whether it’s a 5K or a marathon. Often times, crossing that finish line is a gateway to all sorts of feelings, many of them difficult to handle. In today’s #hurdlemoment, I talk about what I call the “post-marathon blues” (PMB). Those hard-to-handle emotions that come once you’ve tackled your big crazy goal, often associated sentences like “I can’t stop eating” and “I feel like I have no purpose now.” I touch on different strategies you can use to manage PMB, and the best way to proceed to come out on the other side a more productive, happier person.

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0:00.0	Hey, hurdlers. Emily Abadi here with another episode of Hurtle moment from Hurtle, a podcast that talks to
0:07.6	everyone from entrepreneurs to top CEOs and athletes about how they've gotten through tough times,
0:12.9	hurdles of sorts, by leaning into wellness. I'm going to be honest with you. I probably started
0:20.0	recording three different topics for this
0:22.8	week's hurdle moment and none of them were resonating with me. Lately, I feel super sporadic and,
0:30.6	to be honest, a little upset. And you know what that is? It's post-marathon blues. And so instead of talking to something
0:43.2	that doesn't feel true to me in the moment, I'm going to break that down. Today, I'm going to talk
0:49.0	about how to navigate what's going on in your mind, how to downshift after a really intense training cycle,
0:56.4	and how to treat yourself with a little bit of kindness. If you just conquered a marathon,
1:01.6	no matter what your pace was, no matter what your goals were, you went through a lot. And that
1:07.7	is something to be celebrated. And just like something like a wedding for example you
1:14.0	prep so much for this one big day and then within a matter of hours all that work and the day
1:22.1	it's behind you it's normal to feel like you suddenly lack a little bit of purpose, that you feel
1:30.2	and inspired. Trust me, that is 100% how I feel now. But I keep reminding myself and we'll get
1:37.4	into this in today's episode that you had goals like this before. You conquered them before.
1:43.0	And now you have the opportunity to find
1:44.8	something new, to set your sights on something exciting and go after that too. You know the drill
1:52.0	at Emily Abadi at Hurdle Podcast. If you have a hurdle moment of your own to share, if you feel
1:57.7	what I'm feeling, can I get an amen?
2:02.3	Shoot me an email.
2:05.0	It's Emily at hurdle.us.
2:08.2	And with that, let's get to hurtling.
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