Hey everyone, Emily Abadi here.

You are listening to a 5 minute Friday.

Ha!

I'm sitting in my hotel room in Chamonix, which is a theme for the next month as between

running Berlin and work.

I am abroad for, I think I calculated something like 20 days of a total of 40 day stretch.

Now firstly, thanks for being patient with my voice between the cheering that I've been

doing here for athletes and I'll explain that in a second as well as being just a little

bit congested.

I am the first to say that it has sounded better, so thank you.

Some of you may be following along on social, but I am here in Chamonix because I came

out to attend UTMB, which stands for Ultra Trail Dumont Blanc.

And essentially you can think of UTMB as like the Super Bowl, the final of a race series

that's held around the globe.

And this race is like the ultimate trail race, the pinnacle event of UTMB.

People run roughly, let's say, 171 kilometers, which is 106 miles.

And during that period they cover 10,000 meters of elevation gain, which that sentence just

it truly blows my mind.

And I came to this last year, I was invited by Strava.

And firstly was blown away by just how beautiful this small town is in the middle of these

massive towering mountains.

But beyond that, I was really impacted because I noticed there were a lot of women.

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