Thank God it's Friday, Emily a body here coming into your feeds with an episode of 5 Minute Friday and let me tell you this week has been

a lot it's been a lot with the news it's been a lot of work it's been a lot of playing a little bit of catch up so personally I am really really ready for the weekend I am excited to announce that I am officially assigned up for the second time for the London marathon if you've been a herdler for a while then you followed along that last year with my journey to the London marathon ultimately an injury which prevented me from going to London

pivoting going to Italy the whole shebang and so now that I am on the brink of another training cycle 14 weeks for me gearing up to finally do this thing that has just been so long time coming I feel anxious and nervous and cautiously optimistic

I think a lot about where I am now just working on navigating what has been a little bit of planter fasciitis for the past few months and for more resources and information on navigating planter fasciitis and other foot conditions make sure that you check out Wednesday's episode with doctor Emily splick all so many good takeaways in there but

I have been working with a physical therapist over at motive in New York and also just diligently doing my exercises and really really making it a top priority to take care of my body

and I'm seeing the fruits of my efforts so to speak payoff my planter fasciitis has gotten much much better I'm now able to run without pain

that's not to say that pain doesn't pop in every now and again but I'm managing it I'm working with it and I am on the ups and I can say that confidently

now the thing about this training cycle that feels unlike maybe any other that I have gone through in some time I really feel like I'm starting at square one

I mean I essentially took off some solid time from any sort of distance running in April and May and so for me now starting this journey after just running

a half marathon and that experience went like pretty it was pretty difficult for me I'm humble and I'm honest and I'm working to meet

myself with where I'm at it was a conversation that I had with my PT the other day homing it on this idea that doing that being honest about my current status is going to be the thing

that enables me to get toward my goals if I'm chasing the version of Emily that was running in 2019 when I snagged my first BQ in the Chicago marathon that would be me doing

myself a disservice I am not starting in the same place that I started back in 2019 here in 2022 I am a different person I'm dealing with different situations I am emotionally physically and professionally like all in a different spot

and so I recognize that and I have graced with that and that doesn't mean that there aren't going to be moments where I am my own biggest critic

if you follow me on Instagram then you saw that I wrote a post about this I mentioned that I had a hard time in my last half marathon I really did

I ran this race here in New York called the midnight half and I went out there and just felt as though so much of my fitness was lacking

and because of that I felt embarrassed I felt frustrated I felt as though I wanted to curl up in a small ball and completely hide away

and in the days and weeks since that race I have come back to this place of having more grace with myself

although I needed to feel those feelings there are so many realities that go hand in hand with what happened that night

aside from taking some time off I also had it run more than eight half miles consecutively before going out to run that half

in some time I don't usually stay awake past 10 30 a night so going out to run half marathon at midnight isn't exactly a breeze I mean so many things

none of them excuses all just me learning to accept the facts and move forward doing the best I can with what I have

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