#HURDLEMOMENT: Your Biggest Listener Questions, Answered
Hurdle with Emily Abbate
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🗓️ 30 September 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Have a lot of extra special guests on the show today! Thanks so much to everyone that submitted listener questions for this episode. I had a lot of fun putting it together and I'm looking forward to doing these more regularly — with your help. In today's episode, I'm chatting about everything from my morning routine and finding my fast to making money as a freelance journalist and how I'm navigating this pandemic (and life in general) as a single 30-something.
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MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
Episode One: Emily Abbate, Creator of Hurdle
Runner's World: In Defense of Walking More and Running Less
131. Emily Infeld, Olympic Runner
#HURDLEMOMENT: The Chicago Marathon, A Recap
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CHECK OUT: HURDLE SESSIONS
All past Sessions are now available on the Hurdle website. Other upcoming sessions that I would love for you to be a part of:
Media Strategy for Fitness Professionals, 9/30 at 7:00 p.m.
October Handling #HURDLEMOMENTS Workshop: 10/7 at 7:00 p.m.
Check out the SECRET Hurdlers Facebook group.
HURDLE BOOK CLUB
This month, we’re reading Untamed by Glennon Doyle. Book club will be on October 20 at 8 p.m. Register to join, here! First come, first serve, up to 100 attendees!
ALSO! Don’t forget about our One Million Miles for Justice team! This time around, a portion of the race proceeds will support the Children's Defense Fund, national child advocacy organization that works to uplift all children — especially poor children and children of color.
Click the link above to join team “Hurdlers." First time joining? Use the code “HURDLERS5” for $5 off registration. If you participated previously, use “RETURNPHASE2” for a discount.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Hurdlers. |
| 0:14.9 | Emily Abadi coming here with another installment of Hurtle moment from Hurtle. |
| 0:19.4 | This week ending out season three with a listener |
| 0:23.1 | questions episode featuring voice notes from all of you. This was really, really fun to make. |
| 0:30.2 | It's definitely something that I'm going to do again for sure. If at any point you ever have a |
| 0:34.6 | question that you want to submit for possible inclusion on the show. |
| 0:38.7 | Simply record a voice note and then send it to me over email. It's Emily at hurdle.us. |
| 0:43.6 | In today's episode of listener questions, I'm covering everything from how I've coped with injury |
| 0:50.9 | in the past, how I quote unquote got fast, how I started making money |
| 0:55.5 | as a freelancer and what that looked like and so much more. A huge thanks to all the hurdlers |
| 1:01.3 | that submitted questions that are featured in today's episode. I am so grateful. And again, |
| 1:07.4 | I'd love to keep doing this stuff. So send me your cues. Connect with me on social at Emily Abadi at hurdle podcast. |
| 1:14.4 | Last little bit of housekeeping before we get into it. |
| 1:16.7 | If you've yet to sign up for the weekly hurdle newsletter, I would love for you to join in the fun. |
| 1:23.1 | Head on over to the show notes and click the link to subscribe today. And with that, let's get to |
| 1:30.3 | hurtling. |
| 1:37.2 | Hey, Emily, it's Olivia. So we know the beginning of your running story and we know where you are |
| 1:43.2 | now and you're a pretty experienced |
| 1:46.0 | runner and you're pretty damn fast, which is awesome. But what happened in between? Like, |
| 1:52.4 | how long did it take you to run your first race and to improve those times? Like, is this a |
| 1:59.3 | multi-year journey or did it all kind of take off really |
| 2:02.4 | fast? Great question. I started running just in general back in 2008-ish in college. And I talk a lot |
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