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What's going on, everyone? Emily here. You're listening to Five Minute Friday on Hurtle. Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. Whenever you are listening to this. I am recording in beautiful sunny Los Angeles, not trying to rub it in. I saw a lot of flood content on the socials

of what's going on in New York this week. I made the decision that I would just hang out on

the West Coast until Saturday. Nice little holiday weekend kickoff for me, if you will. I came out

here to host an event for On. They recently announced

their OAC Sprint team. They train out of Mount Sack here in Los Angeles. And so I came out and was

able to have such an unbelievable experience doing that inside of the historical L.A. Coliseum where famously my girl,

Jumbo Knight-Samuelson, won the inaugural Women's Olympic Marathon back in 1984. So, yeah, pretty surreal.

But I digress. I went on a run this morning. I, so I ran the half last weekend in Brooklyn, the Brooklyn half put on by New York Roadrunners. It was such a fun day. And I'm definitely still a bit in recovery mode from that. So I went out to do a workout this morning. It was kilometer repeats. I had

three of them. And when I tell you that I really had to give myself grace and I really had to meet

myself with where I was at, that is such an understatement. It just, I felt like my legs were super heavy, but I also,

while being like, this is not feeling as easy as I hoped that it could feel, was so appreciative

of the environment around me. I was running around Silver Lake Reservoir and just felt so grateful to be in the sunshine and

knowing that there was a really yummy breakfast on the other side of that run.

I had to do a little bit of both.

I had to hype myself up and appreciate what I had to give.

And I had to recognize that this is just how it is in this

moment, not judge it to another workout perhaps from the past or maybe what I know that I am

capable of. And again, meet myself with where I'm at. And more often than not, that can be really challenging. It can be really challenging to

accept how things are. There are a lot of things in my life right now that I both have gratitude for

and maybe wish that they were a little bit different. I feel like there are a lot of things

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