#HURDLEMOMENT: Running My Fastest Mile EVER, A Recap
Hurdle with Emily Abbate
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🗓️ 14 October 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
5:56. FIVE FIFTY-SIX! I'm still pinching myself. Last Friday, I ran a mile time trial with a friend with the goal to break 6:00. Well, I did it, and I have the Strava data to prove it. For #HURDLEMOMENT this week, I'm chatting about why the mile distance means so much to me and all the details surrounding the build-up to this particular effort. I offer up my pre-race routine, talk about my strategy going in, share the hardest part of the entire shebang, and how the entire experiment made me feel. (FYI: Super emotional TBH.) A huge, huge thanks to my teammates at Brooklyn Track Club for supporting me on race day, and to the friends, family, and Hurdlers who reached out!
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| 0:00.0 | running reminds us that we can feel sometimes when we feel numb. It reminds us that we can do |
| 0:08.8 | hard things when life feels hard. And it reminds us that each and every one of us have this |
| 0:16.0 | beautiful fucking opportunity to go after what it is that we want every single day on our own terms, |
| 0:24.4 | regardless of anybody else. |
| 0:47.4 | Music Hey, hurdlers, Emily Abadi here, bringing you another installment of Hurtle moment from Hurtle. |
| 0:48.6 | And this week, a much requested episode. |
| 0:53.4 | I am giving you all of my thoughts, all of my feelings from the |
| 0:59.0 | mile time trial I ran last Friday. I can't believe I'm saying this, but my new personal best mile time is five minutes and 56 seconds. Oh my God. I've been a little |
| 1:24.9 | nervous and excited to record this recap because one of the most commented on episodes of Hurtle is my Chicago Marathon recap. |
| 1:38.5 | And I think that's because, and I listened to it again recently myself, it never gets old. |
| 1:45.9 | Me just sitting in my apartment, |
| 1:52.3 | listening to myself. I listened to it again recently and I recorded that episode like I'm going to record this episode, which was just completely off of the cuff, talking to you honestly |
| 1:57.8 | about my experience and and just being open and and candid and so hopefully |
| 2:04.7 | this episode stands the tests of time like that one has before i get in to the swing of things |
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