What's going on, everyone, everyone, Emily Abadi here.

You are listening to Five Minute Friday from Hurtle.

I am, this is coming out moments after I began what feels like technically my first long run training for New York City.

I've got 14 miles on deck this weekend and I finally feel like

it's really happening. I've run New York. I know it's six. I believe it's six times before.

There's one virtual thrown in the mix there. It's truly my favorite day of the year. And when it

came to deciding what I wanted to do this fall, I made the

decision to sign up for New York because I wanted to have a good time in all of the times that

I've run this marathon. And I'm like laughing as I hear myself saying this out loud. I've never done it

purely for fun in that I've never done it and not been cognizant of what was going on with my time and my watch.

I've always had like a certain, some sort of goal in the mix.

And truly in the mix this year, my only goal is to enjoy it and to be present in it and to hug people whenever I see them and fist bump people

along the course and cheers people along the course and do all the things. And so that first long run

is happening right now. I laugh because last weekend I had so many nerves going into Hood to Coast. So I talked about

running this relay on the show and I'm here to report now that it was an absolute blast. And it

gave me the confidence that I really needed to continue with this decision that I made to run

the New York Marathon. I went into the race feeling really anxious.

It's something that I write about in this week's weekly hurdle newsletter, say that five times

fast. And the nerves and the anxiety was rooted in the fact that there was a lot of unknown,

right? As with any goal, right? You can only do the best

you can with what you have. You can only set yourself up for the best possible scenario while

understanding that there are going to be things that are beyond your control. And so that's what I did

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