I want to share a story that underscores the importance of shoes and getting your shoes right.

Hi, I'm Dave.

Welcome to Walking is Fitness, a daily 10-minute podcast designed to provide you with a little added motivation to get out the door, take the walk,

and more importantly, to keep on going,

to build a life-changing walking habit. Today's 10-minute walk starts right after this.

Before I share today's shoe story, I just want to encourage you to take the annual walking is fitness survey.

The deadline is tomorrow night, Sunday night.

Ten questions, six are multiple choice.

Four are open-ended. You can spend as much or as little time on the open-ended

questions as you want. I will tell you that the average time to complete the survey is about

three minutes. And most people are doing the six multiple choice as well as the four open-ended questions.

So there is a link in the show notes.

Tap that link.

It'll take you to the survey.

And my plan is in about a week to run through some of the answers and to kind of let you know my thought process as I'm evaluating

and analyzing what is being said about the podcast. So here's a comment from Bill. It's a story,

actually. Dave, love your podcast and have been walking with you for years. Do about 10 to 12,000

steps every day. Recently, adventurous and adventurous friend of mine suggested we go out walking on a

Saturday. The last time he said this, he took us to a muddy trail, so my wife suggested I wear my old sneakers this time, as

last time I ruined my brand new shoes.

So I did.

I put on an old pair of slip-on sneakers and picked up my friend.

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