Hey, everyone, Emily Abadi here. You are listening to Five Minute Friday from Hurtle.

Y'all, this week has been a beautiful week in New York.

Like, we finally got the summer that we've been waiting for just in time for me to bring in another year.

My birthday was on Monday. I had the most beautiful week

enjoying life, honestly, with friends, celebrating by spending time in the sun, going out to dinner,

and just enjoying the little things.

On Wednesday of this week, for all of those that may celebrate,

was Global Running Day.

And as a part of that day, I went to this experience that Nike was putting on in the city.

They gathered different individuals that identify as media, perhaps some creators, and put together a race for us. I ran a fast mile, and there was also an option to do a relay race, and it was a lot of fun.

Candidly, deciding to try to raise a mile after two days of birthday celebrations was

questionable on my part. However, it was a lot of fun. And also, I had a moment that I am here to talk to you about today. I knew that it was going to be

tough. I also know that I am planning to race a half marathon on Saturday in Los Angeles. And so

I went into Wednesday morning's mile time trial with a certain level of

hesitancy. And I'm out there. I do one lap. I'm on my second lap. And what was happening was a

girlfriend of mine was running with me for the first two laps. And she was going to switch out with another good friend of mine for the second two laps. And she was going to switch out with another good friend of me for the first two laps and she was going to switch out

with another good friend of mine for the second two laps. And as we're getting to the halfway point,

finishing off that second of four laps, I say to my girlfriend that's running with me, I say,

I think I'm going to scratch this. Like it just wasn't feeling super stellar. I didn't want to push too hard.

But what happened, I say that to her.

She says, okay, whatever feels right for you.

And I see in the distance that my girlfriend that's about to pace me for the second part of this, the back half of this,

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