Hey everybody, Emily Abadi here, coming to you from the AG studio, you are listening

minute Friday from hurdle. We made it through another week, a full week for me at home,

mostly early bad times, a little bit of fun mixed in there. And I am prepping to be off on

another adventure, heading back to the west coast, no hurtler meetups there exclusively

for a lot of work, but excited to grab myself a little bit warmer temperatures, although this

week has been stunning in New York, and see myself some palm trees. For five minute Friday

this week, I want to talk to you guys about something that I have been, I don't know if navigating

as the right word because I feel really confident and happy, I don't know if happy is the right word

either, I am dealing, this is such a sexy word with plantar fasciitis in my heel. And basically what

plantar fasciitis is, if I'm going to get specific, it's inflammation of a thick band of tissue

that essentially runs from your heel bone to your toes or the ball of your foot across the whole

bottom of your foot. And when you get inflammation, a lot of individuals feel pain in their heel. Now

I've been like dealing with a little bit of plantar fasciitis pain over the last few months,

but recently it's gotten to the point where it won't really bother me on my run, but after my run,

I'll be hobbling around. Like last weekend after I went on a 11 mile run with my friend Willie,

I went to brunch with my mom and I literally limped from my apartment to brunch and limped home

and was like so excited to put my foot in a bucket of ice water. So clearly some things needed to

shift. And I made the kind of frustrating decision, but right decision to not run the Brooklyn

half marathon next weekend. It's just not smart for me right now to go out and race 13 miles knowing

that afterward. I will not be walking super well. And it could do further damage. And that is not

what we want. I want to think long term. I want to think longevity. I want to fix

this issue ASAP. I've already spoken to my PT. We have a plan of attack. And my plan of attack is

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