What's happening everyone, everyone, Emily Abadi here. You are listening to Five Minute Friday on Hurtle.

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Whenever you're listening to this, I've received so many sweet messages lately about this segment on the show.

And it's so appreciated. I love that you love it. So if you're one of these people and you're listening

right now and I know that there are thousands of you, it would mean a lot to me. If you share

hurdle on your social feeds, wherever that might be, if you send an episode to a friend,

shoot me a message over on the hurdle page at hurdle podcast or

at Emily Abadi and let me know that you love it. Spread the love, if you will. I have been

head down in work mode recently. I'm excited to be traveling to Japan for the World Athletics Championships

in September. And knowing that I have quite a bit of time there, I'll be there for about

two weeks. I want to prepare everything so that I can set myself up to be in the best position

possible. And that means that I can set myself up to be in the best position possible.

And that means that I'm noticing I'm not showing up a lot in the digital world these days.

I'm waking up, I'm doing my workout and probably sharing something from that on Instagram.

And then I'm getting back to my apartment and jumping into things. I feel a little bit

disconnected, if we're being honest, but I know that this will have a really good payoff and will

set me up to be in a really good position. Just right now, it feels a little bit isolating if I'm being

real. I'm also having a tough time, and this is what bit isolating if I'm being real.

I'm also having a tough time, and this is what I want to talk about this week.

My workouts aren't really feeling like they're clicking.

Not only my running workouts, I will say I've had, I feel like I'm a bit in this place of a,

I've hit a plateau with some of the skills that I've been working on at the gym. And between that and summer running, gestures loosely being summer running and it

being so humid and me just feeling completely like a baby deer out there, nothing's feeling

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