At the end of today's episode, I want you to ask the question, so what would I do?

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 yourself.

Hi, I'm Dave. I started walking for fitness in 2013, and I 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.

Joe is a writer. He's in his early 70s, lives on the East Coast. Recently, he was visiting his son in Colorado. His son has a couple of dogs, a larger dog and a smaller dog. The smaller dog is actually a small dog. And one day, Joe decided to take the small dog out for a walk. In the beautiful surroundings of Colorado, Joe is walking the dog and you know how when you're

in a different set of circumstances, different geography as you're walking, particularly

an area that's pretty stunning and Joe's enjoying the beauty of the walk with this little dog

and at one point Joe turns around and notices another animal staring at him. At first, Joe thought

it was a dog, realized not a dog quickly.

It was the size of a dog.

But there was no collar and it looked a little different.

And then Joe thought, well, maybe it's a wolf.

And for a moment, remembered that generally wolves don't pose a danger to humans.

And then he thought of that movie from 2011.

I think it's The Grey, starring Liam Neeson, that actually was the opposite of that.

But thought, you know, there aren't wolves around here.

It's not a wolf.

And eventually realized that he had encountered a coyote.

It was a large coyote that was now staring at him and the small dog.

Joe tried to remember, what do you do when you encounter a coyote?

Kind of like when you're out swimming in the ocean and a shark comes up to you,

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