Hey, everyone, Emily Abadi here. You are listening to Five Minute Friday from Hurtle.

I'm feeling really excited right now. I'm feeling really excited right now because this morning I woke up in Brooklyn and I rode a city bike over to McCarran Park, which is a park in Williamsburg. And I did a

mile time trial. And I did this time trial because I wanted to get a baseline of what my

mile time is right now, where I am in this phase, to design a training plan around for a 10K

that I'm running in June. It's the mini 10K that New York Roadrunners puts on.

And I ran the mile and it felt hard, but it felt good. And I did it in 652. And I felt so stoked and

excited about that. And I was doing my little cool down after

the mile that I ran. And I had this moment of great appreciation because I realized that for the first

time, in a long time, I'm like, no BS.

I was so proud of Emily as I am in this moment.

And I wasn't comparing that 652 to the Emily of the olden days.

Like my mile personal best time is, I think, I think it's 556. It's sub six. And that is something that I did in 2020. It's almost, it's three and a half years later now. And my mile is nowhere near that time. And I am not phased. I'm not phased at all because how can I expect

myself to do something right now that I haven't been preparing for? It's not like you wake up one day

and you have your dream job, right? You work toward this point. You work toward a point where you

achieve a certain amount of status and have a certain

amount of accolades and accrue a certain amount of accomplishments to get to that pivotal moment.

And the same goes for running.

I have had moments within running where I have been faster and other moments that I've felt

really accomplished like today that

really actually didn't have anything to do with speed. Today was about a feeling. And so I,

maybe I'm rambling, but I think that so often, you know, I'm telling myself, don't compare yourself,

don't compare yourself, don't compare yourself, don't compare

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