Hey, it's um, you're listening to five minute Friday, someone told me yesterday that when

they think of my name, they think of me as Emily Abadi, like, need the first and the last

name. I can be just Emily. That's cool with me. Anyway, I digress. Hey, what's up? Hello, I've

had a week. I want to tell you what I did this week. I booked my trip for the Berlin Marathon.

And I'm going to be honest, I am scared as hell to even say that because right now I am

sitting in front of this microphone, speaking to you while also simultaneously icing my foot.

And I have the confidence from my PT team that I am capable of doing this, that I will be

okay to do this. But man, does it feel as unsettling as everything to say to myself, I am

going to be able to run a marathon at the end of September, knowing that I am regularly

going through random sporadic pain now. And I say that also recognizing that things now

are much different than they were five months ago. These days right now, I am strength training

three days a week, running three days a week, and doing yoga one day a week. And some

of those are doubled up. So I still have a rest day on Sundays. And with that said, I was

certainly not running three days a week back in January. In fact, I was taking the month

off of running in January. So yeah, I just have a lot of feels. This has been something

I've wanted to do for a while. And I also recognize that London was something I wanted to do

for a really long time. And I put that off for a year after I had registered for it. So

what will be will be, but the hotel is booked. I, the flight is booked. The after travel

is mostly booked. And I am just going to do the best I can with what I have. I feel now,

like booking all of this and kind of putting this all in motion. I was really committed

to my recovery before. But this feels like I am being intentional with where I'm going

and my commitment to where I'm going. And that feels really good. It feels like I'm doing

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