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Walking is Fitness

A Day Of Exploring

Walking is Fitness

Dave Paul

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8592 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Walking around a big city with lots of history can be fun. During today's ten-minute walk, Dave talks about the day he explored Philadelphia and put more than 25,000 steps on his Fitbit.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This morning's 10-minute walk is happening near the airport.

0:09.0

As you can hear a jet beginning to roll down the runway and take off.

0:15.0

I have no idea where it's going. November 19th, 2017.

0:23.6

It was a chilly day in Philadelphia.

0:28.6

It was a really windy day in Philadelphia.

0:32.6

The wind gusts were projected to be 50 miles an hour, and that's kind of where they were.

0:42.3

There was clearly a wind chill, which I think was below freezing.

0:50.3

And I spent the day in Philadelphia doing and seeing some amazing things.

0:57.5

I saw Independence Hall, which is also where the Liberty Bell is.

1:03.5

That's the large bell with the crack.

1:07.1

So they used the bell a lot, and then it cracked.

1:11.2

And so they took it down and wanted to repair it.

1:14.6

And the repair actually was to sort of make the crack wider, which would stop the crack from getting longer.

1:24.9

It's kind of like the idea of controlled brush fires to reduce the probability

1:32.3

of a wildfire. So they made the crack bigger to keep the crack from spreading. And so when we see the

1:38.3

crack, that's actually the repair. But it didn't work. And the bell kept cracking, and so they stopped ringing it.

1:46.5

And there is no one on the planet today that has heard that bell ring, the Liberty Bell.

1:54.5

Anyhow, I saw it that day.

1:56.8

Saw the Philadelphia Art Museum.

2:05.6

That's the iconic museum with the steps that Rocky runs up.

2:10.6

If you remember the movie Rocky from the mid-70s, and he runs up the steps of the art museum, turns around,

2:14.6

and kind of like does a woo. Actually, he doesn't do a woo.

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