Would you walk 50 miles if someone jokingly suggested you should?

Welcome to Walking is Fitness.

This is a podcast of action, providing a little extra motivation to help you keep that fitness promise you made to yourself.

Hi, I'm Dave. I started walking for fitness in 2013. Still take an intentional fitness walk every single day. I'm walking

right now and I would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes. It is a really

foggy morning here in Myrtle Beach. It's the kind of fog that it's thick.

I can see, not as far as usual, but I can see, but it's wet. I'm walking along and I'm feeling the

moisture in the air. And then just before I started recording, it started to rain.

I don't know if you can hear it.

That's the sound of rain.

That's not the sound of thick fog.

So I pull up my weather app and there's no chance of rain.

I look at the radar.

There's no rain on the radar.

So I have no idea what this is about.

I follow a guy named Clint Hill on Instagram,

and recently he posted something that for me was a little-known historical fact.

As I dug in, I came to realize that at the time, it was not little-known.

It was actually something that created a bit of a national obsession here in the United States.

In 1963, President John Kennedy, American President John Kennedy,

discovered something that President Theodore Roosevelt had said in 2008. In 1908, President Roosevelt said that every U.S.

Marine should be able to walk 50 miles in three days. President Kennedy thought,

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