Hey, hurdlers, Emily here, popping in to your feed with another installment of five-minute Friday.

Man, this week, I feel like there was just not enough time. I got back from a trip to Rhode Island,

which was just so relaxing. And admittedly, I know I've talked on the show about never wanting to leave

New York before. This was the first time I came back to the city and felt some kind of way a little

bit. Now, a few days later, I'm happy to be here. It's starting to feel right again. But,

man, that first day back, it was something.

Anyway, this morning was something, too, and that's what I'm going to talk about for my little

share this week. If you are new to the Five Minute Friday segments, welcome a little insight.

Here I share a story, and then I offer you a prompt to think about going in

to the weekend and finish things off with some highlights of the week, whether those are content

picks, articles, Netflix movies to watch, podcasts, you get the idea. So this week, I'm talking about this morning, specifically

this sub 30 minute experience where I thought that I was going to collapse. And it's so funny,

right, because while it was happening in my head, I thought to myself, this is exactly what you're not supposed to be doing.

Like rule number one of the pandemic is social distancing is king. And rule number two of the pandemic is do not push your body too hard.

I have interviewed so many experts that have told me this. But

regardless, alas, there I was testing my limits. And I persisted. And I was about roughly 1.2 miles

into a 5k that I was running very hard. And I asked myself if it was time to call it.

At the time, no one knew what I was doing.

I didn't tell any of my friends that I was going to run a 5K.

I didn't mention it on Instagram.

I hadn't posted yet for the day.

I hadn't even posted since the day before.

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