I'm going to say something that I promised myself I would never say on this podcast.

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've

been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging just about 21,000 steps a day. I am walking right

now and would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes or so. It is a foggy, foggy morning

here in South Carolina.

We've had fog since we moved here about a year and a half ago.

But since I've been doing this podcast, I don't ever remember fog this thick.

And it has, in the last 15 15 minutes thickened up pretty dramatically.

And so it'll be interesting to see what happens over the next 15 minutes.

But I digress.

It's a comfortable morning.

Good morning for a walk.

Actually, it's beautiful.

Hope it's pleasant where you are as well as we are walking today.

About five years ago, I had the original idea for this podcast.

It was kind of a goofy idea.

I had a Fitbit and had been walking for fitness for a while and people in my world

knew that I walked a lot. So I would hear often this, I guess it was a complaint or maybe an excuse.

I don't know.

They, we would get the talking and they would say, yeah, my goal is whatever number of steps,

but I'm only able to get this number and I keep missing the goal and I, you know,

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