If you can choose to have the grace with yourself to move forward and meet yourself with where

you're at, you will be better for it.

What's going on, everyone? Emily Abadi here. You are listening to another installment of

Hurtle Moment from Hurtle. A while nice focus podcast where I connect with everyone,

from your favorite athletes to top experts and industry CEOs about their highest highs,

toughest moments and everything in between. We all go through Hurtles in life and my goal

through these discussions is to empower you to better navigate yours and move with intention

so that you can stride toward your own big potential and of course have some fun along the way.

It was a no brainer for me to kick things off on the Hurtle Moment front with kind of a

rundown answering your questions about injury and how I have been navigating life coming back from

Plantarvasciitis. A few little bits of housekeeping up front. Plantarvasciitis, what is it? It's

essentially inflammation of the tendon that goes along the bottom of your foot that causes pain

traditionally at the heel insertion. I have been dealing with it on and off for years. I was

able to train for the London marathon last year without pain and then two weeks before wayum, bam,

it was like, hi, I am here, I am present and I'm going to make this hell for you. So that's exactly

what happened. I was able to run the marathon and have been recovering from this unexpected

frustrating foot injury ever since. In January of this year, I took some dedicated time off to really

treat the issue and I'll talk about what that treatment looks like in today's episode.

And after getting the clear from my PT, I finally signed up for another marathon. I am looking

forward to the Berlin marathon at the end of September this year. And so I have been sharing that

process, what it's looked like for me. How it's been different than any other training cycle up

until this point over on Instagram. And as a result, I've been getting a lot of questions. And so

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