Hey, everybody, Emily Abadi here. You are listening to Five Minute Friday from Hurtle. I hope everybody had a nice Thanksgiving yesterday. I spent it in Connecticut, seeing my family. And of course, I kicked off the morning doing my favorite annual tradition. Okay, maybe it's not my

favorite tradition, but I will say that it's something I do every year. And that is the

Pequot Roadrunners Turkey Trot in Southport, Connecticut. And so I've been doing it,

man, maybe since 2017, 2018, at least the better part of my adult life

in the years that it happened with gestures loosely COVID.

And I did not look at any of my previous times going into this year.

I just had like an understanding, a thought about what it was that I wanted to do. And last year,

I walked it with my mom and it was lovely. In past years, I have truly just run it to run it.

Just hitting some movement, some activity as I like to do regularly, especially before the

opportunity to gather with friends and family. Anyway, I went in yesterday knowing that I

wanted to really see what I could do, right? And I told myself that I had an ideal pace that I wanted

to hit. And long story short, it was extremely hard and challenging and wet and cold.

Let's also say that.

But I surpassed even my goal.

And it was only after the fact that I realized that this time was faster than I'd ever done it before. And like I said, I've been doing this for a

handful of years. And it makes me really so appreciative. And it feels almost even more special

than aiming for a personal best. Because I'm not really in this place anymore where I have any desire to compete with my

past self. I'm going to say that one more time. I'm not in a place in my life right now where I have

any desire to compete with my past self. And I think that that can be the challenging thing

about that term PR. Like I will never be the same as I was when I was 28 or 30 or 32 or 21 or in my teens, right?

I am a different woman.

And that is because of all of my great lived experience.

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