Hey everybody. Hello. It's me. My voice is back. We're back. It's five minute Friday. Really, what could be

better? I feel like my feet are finally back under me after a whirlwind week and weekend. I know I said it in

the intro to Monday's episode with Shalane,

but to anyone and everyone who had themselves a day last Sunday here in New York,

watching the marathon, running the marathon. Congrats. We did it. Now, this week, I want to talk to you

about something related to that. I want to talk to you

about the choice that I made not to work out for five days. Candidly, I think it's probably the

longest amount of time that I have gone and I can't even tell you how long without

strategically moving my body and that I didn't turn on a workout, whether it be

on my Apple Watch or on my Garmin. There was no strength training. There was no hot yoga.

There was no running. There was no nothing. When I say nothing, I do want to caveat this by saying

that I knew that I would be moving around a lot. I knew that I would be

walking a lot. I think on Marathon Sunday, I logged something like 40,000 steps. And in the days

preceding that, at least 15,000 steps. And on top of that regular movement as a part of those days, I also had a high

stress week, which I believe I've chatted about a little bit on the show. My days are a little bit

blurred now, if I'm being honest. But hosting a lot of events, going to a lot of events,

being involved in the community and absorbing the high frequency

around me, I knew that I needed to give my body the chance to handle the amount of stress at hand

to the best of its ability without exceedingly stressing it. Now, last week I talked about two of my strategies

that I use when I'm trying to navigate overwhelm. And I'd be remiss if I didn't say that,

yes, I navigated a bit of overwhelmed last weekend. But for me, I had to listen to my gut.

I have been in the position before where I'm shooting myself

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