Hey, Hurdlers, Emily Abadi here bringing you this week's episode of Five Minute Friday.

What a week. I said that at the beginning of every one of these episodes. I am anxious and excited and feel like I'm forgetting things, but that happens all the time.

This week, a little bit more than usual, because I am setting out to run a virtual

marathon this weekend because why not?

And really, I mean, I wrote about that on social media earlier yesterday, just like this

idea that I feel as though in a year that is so

full of ups and downs and things that I am unsure of and feeling like you're like not enough

or that you have so much to prove and you're spending so much time alone, like so many things about

this year, so many hard things that this virtual marathon for me is a reminder. I know that I can do

the hard things. And so when I keep getting asked, you know, why would you do that? I'm just kind of like,

you know what? Why not? Anyway, for five minute Friday this week, I am talking a little bit more

about the virtual marathon. You know, I'll be lacing up on Saturday to do it. And, you know,

we all think a ton of things before any race,

whether it's a mile or a 5K, 10K, half marathon, marathon, what have you. You have a lot of

thoughts, right? This week, I have been thinking, like, I need to do laundry. I need to buy

bagels. I'm out of peanut butter. I, uh, should I wear a race bib?

I'm wondering if the temperature, which I think is like maybe a high of 48 right now,

like should I be wearing shorts?

Should I be wearing pants?

Should I be wearing a long sleeve?

Do I know what route I'm going? Which actually is kind of comical, considering you need to map out where you're going to go in some respects to

make sure that you have enough room to run 26.2 miles. But God, that makes it a lot more difficult

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