Today you're going to hear the story of a really important walk.

I don't think it's an over-dramatization to say that it was a life-changing walk.

It certainly was for me and probably Ava as well.

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 to stay consistent.

Today's 10-minute walk starts right after this.

So today's walk is, for me, a little different. I don't know what time of day you listen to these

episodes. Most of them, probably 99.9% are recorded in the morning. Some are recorded a little

before sunrise. Most nowadays are recorded after sunrise.

Today's episode is happening well after sunrise.

In fact, it's lunchtime.

And I've done a few, done a few episodes at lunchtime.

But this is one of those rare opportunities where I had the time, had the topic, and had the desire to,

let's do this at lunchtime instead of this morning.

So I want to talk about two benefits of walking, benefits that I've talked about before, really important benefits.

And I would even say these are right now benefits. A lot of times you talk about the health benefits of walking, and a lot of them are future-based, lowering the risk of all kinds of bad health outcomes if you build a habit,

take the walk and you're consistent. But they're also right now benefits that really have almost

no bearing on whether you've got a habit or not. You could take one walk a month and still enjoy these benefits.

I don't recommend that, by the way.

I think the better approach is let's build some consistency in.

But I want to tell you the story of a walk that I took with my wife, Ava,

that used both of these benefits in full measure.

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