7 Observations About Walking From A 66 Year Old
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Dave moves from 65 to 66 years old today. During this ten-minute walk, he shares seven observations about walking.
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| 0:00.0 | Today is my birthday and I am in a reflective mood. |
| 0:06.0 | Seven observations about walking from a 66 year old. |
| 0:12.0 | Hi, I'm Dave. Welcome to Walking is Fitness. |
| 0:15.0 | A daily 10-minute podcast designed to provide you with a little added motivation to get out the door, |
| 0:20.0 | take the walk, |
| 0:21.1 | and more importantly, to keep going to build a life-changing walking habit. |
| 0:26.5 | Today's 10-minute walk starts right after this. |
| 0:30.5 | If you love Peloton, do we have a podcast for you? |
| 0:35.1 | The Clip Out. |
| 0:36.0 | If it's happening in the Peloton universe, earnings call, instructors news, product updates, drama, rumors, we're breaking it down, and we also probably broke the story. Not only do we tell you about the news, we analyze it. We tell you why it's important to you and your workouts. We're fans, but we're honest. We celebrate the wins and call out the weird stuff. And we know there's a lot of weird stuff. A lot of weird stuff. So if you can't get enough Peloton, we're the place to go. It's called the clip out. And you can get us wherever you got the podcast you're listening to right now. We take the content seriously, Ourselves? Not so much. |
| 1:17.8 | Today's my birthday, and I'm spending at least part of it this morning, here at the beach. |
| 1:22.5 | I live in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and this is the Atlantic Ocean. |
| 1:30.3 | The tide is going out, so I have to walk a little bit further to stick my toes in the water which I am doing and the water temperature is actually not as cold as I thought it would be but I'm not going to linger in the water. |
| 1:41.3 | I'm going to walk along the beach. And before I get into seven observations about walking as a 66-year-old, that's how old I am today. |
| 1:52.0 | I also want to wish my daughter a happy birthday. |
| 1:55.0 | Grace, she turns, I guess it's okay if I, she turns 35. |
| 2:01.6 | She was born on my 31st birthday. |
| 2:04.6 | So we celebrate our birthdays together and that's a great joy and a great blessing. |
| 2:10.6 | So I've been walking as a fitness activity since 2013. |
| 2:16.6 | Before that I was a runner, was a runner for five years. Got a Fitbit, fell in love with the |
| 2:22.3 | competitive aspect of walking, setting a step goal and achieving that goal every day, |
| 2:29.3 | and realized that I enjoyed walking more than running. So one day in May, about five months after I |
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