Are you doing some traveling soon?

If so, there's a great opportunity for you to keep your fitness promise in a really fun place.

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. Saw a post recently someone who said that they were going to be traveling,

I think it was a vacation, it was a long trip, and they were going to be flying.

And this person sort of offhandedly mentioned in their post that they were going to be getting in a lot of steps at the airport,

doing a lot of walking at the airport.

I had a season in my life where I was doing a lot of traveling for work, probably, at least for me.

It was three, maybe four trips a year.

I think there were some years that might have even been more than that.

And this season lasted for quite a few years.

And it actually coincided with when I got my first Fitbit.

And I had these step goals every day.

And those goals, as I've explained in previous episodes, those goals started at 10,000 steps,

and then 12, 15, 17, eventually 20,000.

The 20K one-year step challenge where I publicly made the commitment that I was going to walk

at least 20,000 steps every day, and then I posted every day my progress. And I was doing traveling during that season of life. And so I was getting

on airplanes, traveling to other cities for conferences, for meetings, and then back to Maryland.

And so those journeys to other cities actually fed into this part of fitness walking

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