A Difficult Transition To Walking
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 597 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Linda was a runner. She says it was part of her identity. Because of that, making the shift to walking was hard for her. During today's ten-minute, Dave talks about how building his identity around an activity made it hard for him when it was time to leave.
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| 0:00.0 | I didn't experience this, but I understand it. |
| 0:05.0 | I understand it pretty well, actually. |
| 0:09.0 | The transition from running to walking, |
| 0:14.0 | for some who make this transition, it can actually be really hard. |
| 0:20.0 | Hi, I'm Dave. Welcome to Walking is Fitness. |
| 0:22.6 | This is a daily 10-minute podcast that provides a little added motivation for you to take the walk. |
| 0:29.6 | And today's 10-minute walk starts after this. |
| 0:40.3 | Today's 10-minute walk is going to be getting warmer and warmer. It's happening early in the morning, early enough that it's not super hot. |
| 0:46.3 | The sun has been above the horizon now probably for an hour and a half. |
| 0:54.3 | And the temperature continues to climb. |
| 0:56.9 | I forget where it's going to end up this afternoon, |
| 0:59.0 | but I can already feel the difference in temperature |
| 1:02.6 | between when I left the house and now. |
| 1:06.7 | And so happy to be out early enough so that it's still comfortable. |
| 1:15.0 | Later today, any walks that happen, and they will, I'm sure. |
| 1:18.9 | Those are going to feel not just warmer, but to a much greater extent. |
| 1:24.7 | Those walks are going to feel hot. |
| 1:27.4 | Linda left a comment to one of the Walkingness Fitness YouTube videos. greater extent. Those walks are going to feel hot. |
| 1:31.7 | Linda left a comment to one of the Walkingness Fitness YouTube videos. |
| 1:36.8 | This was a video where I tell the story of why I gave up running for walking. |
| 1:40.6 | I'm not going to go through the whole thing, but essentially I was running for five years. |
| 1:46.9 | And then I got a step tracker, my first step tracker, set the goal of 10,000 steps, |
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