Hey, everyone, Emily here. You are listening to Five Minute Friday from Hurtle, the day after Thanksgiving.

Happy, happy, happy to all of you. I hope that you were able to at least take some time off, hopefully spend a little bit of it with people that you care about.

I made a decision this week that I want to talk

about today on five minute Friday, and that decision was not to do the annual turkey trot.

So let's recap a little bit. I ran a marathon in Chicago, the Chicago Marathon back in October. And literally, I don't know, within the last

week or so, running finally feels normal again. I finally feel like I'm not worried about some

little aches or pains. My hamstring was giving me a little bit of grief. And it feels really

good, thankfully. So to highlight that time period,

it took me over a month to feel back to normal. And I think these days in the comparison trap and

the highlight reel that is social media, it's commonplace to see people do something crazy like running a marathon.

And I have to tell myself that that's not a normal thing all of the time.

Do something crazy like run a marathon.

And then just keep on going on with their life.

Like continue to run five miles the next day as if they didn't just do this really

impressive thing, that they didn't just put their body through a really hard effort.

And I really needed to take a step back after I ran Chicago. And I did. And here we are. Anyway, my decision not to run the turkey trot, I know myself.

I know that I am a competitive person. And while I do

understand that I could just go do this for vibes, I don't know if I trust myself enough to do it that

way. And so I decided that my best decision, the thing that would be me taking care of me, is going out and enjoying

myself on a nice little DIY turkey trot of sorts, not be tempted to push harder than what could be

smart for me and be responsible. And that is growth. That is really, I am proud of this

decision and I already have, I'm recording this before Friday, it will come out after all

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