Hey, everybody, Emily Avati here. You are listening to Five Minute Friday from Hurtle.

Man, what a hot week here in New York. I am loving being in one place, but let me tell you, it is a hot place to be.

My focus right now is really getting my feet under me, getting ahead of some work.

In September, I'm going to have a fair bit of travel. So I am trying to get my ducks in a row,

organize my life, get things in order so that I can be a little bit more cool, calm, and collected

when I am no longer in one place.

This week also marks the beginning of my Chicago marathon training.

There I said it.

I am gearing up for lucky number 16.

Is number 16 a lucky number?

I am unsure, but it will be lucky for me.

I am setting out to do something that is both exciting and

scary, and that is ideally run my fastest marathon ever at my oldest age yet. I ran Chicago back in

2019, and it was such a special experience, one that I've talked about so many times here on the

show. And so I'm excited to give it another go with, one that I've talked about so many times here on the show.

And so I'm excited to give it another go with the fitness that I have now.

And I'm really ready to work for it.

Now, with that said, the beginning of marathon training is always humbling.

But the beginning of training for a marathon is quite

challenging when it is as hot as it is here right now. So for context, I think the real feel today

was something like 101 degrees. When I got out for my run this morning, it was maybe 72-ish, but that humidity, it comes, it comes to get you. On deck this

morning, I had a workout that felt a bit intimidating. I had a warm-up mile and then one rep at

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