Everyone, Vancouver Radio, I do hope you're having an awesome day. Tom, are you having an awesome day?

Yeah, man, good. For the first time in a while, I managed to get myself together last night so that this morning I could take the dog out before sunrise.

So we were out when it was dark with my little head torture on like a mall.

And then we were kind of just out walking in the countryside as the sun came up, which is really cool.

I love doing that this time of year because sunrise is like a respectable time.

Again, doing that at four in the morning, but yeah, it's a little benefit of autumn.

Hey, that's nice. Today, where I am, it's the proper first proper cold day. It was nine degrees when I went for a walk.

That must be at least minus 19 up where you are in Durham.

It was pretty chilly. It was definitely like hoodie and trousers, whether rather than short and a t-shirt.

It's not too bad yet. It's going to be warm today. We've got another couple of months of it being reasonable.

Like knowing the benefits of being outside and walking and just nature.

I wonder how many people actually make time that don't have a dog because this is an obvious dog owner thing.

Of getting outside in the morning, even if it's just for 10 minutes and getting some crisp fresh air.

You know, just seeing the outdoors, feeling the outdoors because I think it's great to just wake up and kind of connect and give your.

Your mind some space and I'd be intrigued by how many people actually do it that aren't dog owners.

Yeah, I spoke about this on Instagram recently. I think a lot of people do, but we tend to think of it as going out to get my steps in.

And I think that's, it's not ideal because usually people say, I need to get 10,000 steps, which we've spoken about before. It's like an arbitrary figure.

10,000 steps was made up to sell pedometers around like the Tokyo Olympics. And I want to say like the 40s or the 50s.

So yeah, 10,000 steps is like arbitrary. And the problem with that arbitrary number is not that it's a bad number because if you hit 10,000 steps, that's good. It's pretty active, etc.

But it leads people to think like, oh, 7,000 steps isn't enough. So people will choose to walk around like a house in a state or somewhere a bit boring and get there 10,000 steps over going somewhere that's actually quite nice to be if you've got the opportunity to do so.

Obviously, not everyone has the opportunity to do this. But if you've got the opportunity to walk somewhere that's a bit green and you only get 6,000 steps.

I would argue that that's still a really good use of time. And I think frame in your, your walking as walking rather than just getting my steps in that like little change of mindset probably changes the way people approach it.

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