Hey everybody, Emily Avadi here coming to you from the AG studio.

You are listening to another installment of five minutes Friday from hurdle. I feel like

it's been a moment since I've sat down and candidly talked to you all. Do you miss

me? I hope your year is off to a good start. I said this to a friend yesterday. I feel

like I have been holed up in my apartment partly a little just anxious about all of the

things just as loosely with COVID and then partly because I'm just working really hard

to set a stellar foundation for what it is I hope to build this year on that note of

setting a stellar foundation today. I want to talk to you about something that I haven't

been committed to. I would say arguably I mean with the with the caveat of physical therapy.

I haven't been committed to this to this level since maybe like 2016 and that my dear

hurtlers is strength training. You know, it's so funny, right? I identify as a runner and

you'll hear runners say all the time like I am going to a strength train. If I strength

train and do single leg stuff and think about balance, then I will be a better runner.

Because I have all of these lofty running goals and I'm going to make it a priority. But

like how many times have you or at least I mean, I won't, okay, I won't project on you.

But how many times have I told myself I am going to do that? I'm going to make this priority.

And yet I do the bare minimum just so I can get by. Well, I finally decided after navigating

injury this marathon season that I was going to commit to strength training and to act

on that goal and make it something that really happened. I took it to the next level and

decided to start working with a trainer, not one on one in a physical setting here in

New York, like inside of an equinox, but rather via the future app. I wrote an article all

about my experience to read about it. You can click on over to the show notes and check

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