Today, the story of Christmas 2018.

That's the Christmas when walking gave me a gift.

Hi, I'm Dave.

Welcome to Walking is Fitness, a daily 10-minute podcast

that provides a little added motivation

for you to get out and take the walk.

Today's 10-minute walk starts right after this.

I'm going to start with an apology if you're a long-time listener.

Parts of this story you've heard before, so the apology is for the repeat.

What you haven't heard though is the end of the story.

So Christmas 2018, a little bit of context, almost four months earlier, I had made a public

commitment to walk 20,000 steps every day for an entire year. And to hold myself accountable,

I was going to post each day on social media, Facebook and Instagram, how many steps I got the

previous day. And to make it interesting, I also posted a picture that I took while I was

walking and then a little bit about the day with the rap being how many steps I got. So I did that

for an entire year. I had started a blog about walking on September 1st, 2018.

And to get attention and invite folks to read the blog, I did this 20,000 steps a day.

And it did slowly grow the audience for this blog,

which at the time was called Goal 20K Steps.

And I completed that entire year,

didn't miss a single day, at the end of the year,

stopped posting daily,

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