Hey, Hurtlers, Emily here, popping into your feed for five-minute Friday.

What a week.

Every week feels like a month when you're home in quarantine.

For those of you that missed Five Minute Friday last week, this is a fun little segment I'm

doing on the podcast where I share a story.

I offer you a thought-provoking prompt.

And then I share my content highlights of the week.

So yesterday, I decided to wake up and go on a run.

The morning started pretty slow. I had a little espresso.

I was enjoying reading and journaling. I got ready for the run and I went out there and I didn't

exactly have a distance in mind. I just knew I wanted to get to other parts of the city. I think it's been

really interesting spending the last, what feels like forever, but is really, I think, about 10

days now within a four or five block radius. Anyway, I headed downtown and I weaved my way

down the east side of Manhattan toward the lower east side.

And I had a choice when I got to the Williamsburg Bridge.

I could either turn around and run the four miles back up or I could take a loop.

And so I went for the loop and I went over the bridge, made a left toward Williamsburg proper, weaved my way through,

stopped by McCarran Park, kept going through Greenpoint over the Pulaski, back in over the

Queensboro, and back uptown to the Upper East Side. And I think it was heading on over

the Queensboro when I realized just how much I was enjoying the run.

You know, running is something I do at least four or five days a week. And up until recently,

it had felt kind of tedious as it can be sometimes with marathon training. But recently, after the postponing of London and my

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