Hey, everybody, Emily here.

You are listening to Five Minute Friday from Hurtle.

Hello, hello, from my new desk.

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get in on it. The link to do that is in the show notes. But if you are subscribed, then you know what I'm

talking about. I have a new desk. I'm mixing some things up in the studio. Say mixing some things up

five times fast. It's not easy. And it's frustrating because I wanted to all be done right now.

And that is just not how this is happening for me. So deep exhales. But that's not what I'm here

to talk about this week. Last week, I was talking to you about how nothing feels like it's

clicking for me when it comes to my workouts. And I'm here to report that I had a good

workout. The long run went well, but it was actually a workout on Tuesday that involved some

threshold pace, which is the fastest pace you can really sustain for a long period of time, let's say between 20 and 60 minutes,

without accumulating excessive lactic acid. I know that's very like inside baseball. Basically,

what I'm telling you is that it's an uncomfortable pace. And so I had a mile and a half

warm up, a two mile threshold run, and then a mile

and a half cool down. And I did that run and I felt really strong. And I just haven't been able

to say that lately. And I walked back in to the building after treating myself to some

fruit at the local bodega. And I was reminded of

the why that I stick it out on all of the hard days. I finally felt like, oh, this is what I remember.

This is why I like to do this thing. And I'm sure you've heard the rule of thirds before. A third of the time,

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