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Hi, I'm Dave and yesterday a little more than 20,000

steps. I think it was like 20,500 and I actually didn't think I was going to make it. At one point

we got home and I looked, we went out to dinner with some friends

and got home and looked at my Fitbit, and I was still, I was probably 1,500 steps shy,

and just thought, well, okay, you you know the goal here is averaging 20,000 steps a day so really

it's a weekly goal of 140,000 and I've had a few days on the front end of the week where I got

plenty of steps.

And then, Ava and I, I forgot about it.

And then Ava and I took a walk a little bit later than usual.

And it was a cold walk.

And I think I checked right before I went to bed.

And there it was, 20,500. It's like, all right, not bad.

So today, because it's a holiday, routines are different and getting that walk in for some of us a little more challenging.

I don't know if you feel that.

And, you know, there are some who, you know, predetermined intentionally to, I'm not going,

I'm just not going to worry about exercise or fitness today and I certainly certainly understand that there was

one year right at 20,000 steps a day it was a hard goal

and it was a public goal. I announced on Facebook,

this is what I'm going to do, and committed to walking at least 20,000 steps every day,

and also committed to making a daily post with a picture.

And so, you know, of course, that took an entire year, so I ran through all the holidays,

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