Today's 10 minute walk is helping you keep the fitness promise you made yourself and is adding another link to your growing fitness chain.

I have many warm memories of walks on Thanksgiving Day. The typical pattern, Thanksgiving would be at my parents' house,

my grandparents would come over, sometimes my aunt and my cousins, and we would eat the traditional

Thanksgiving Day feast with turkey, sweet potatoes, and

sourcrowd, and little bread, bread, biscuits, biscuits, thank you. Thank you. Biscuits with

butter. And then there was pumpkin pie.

But pumpkin pie never happened until after the walk.

And we would finish up the meal, the dinner part.

And then at some point, probably within 30 minutes,

someone, either my mom or my grandma, would say, hey, let's go for a walk.

And so we all layered up and headed out and did a lap around the neighborhood.

I don't recall how long those walks lasted, maybe 30 minutes, maybe.

And my recollection, which is probably more of a guess than anything else,

is that the pace of those walks was very slow.

We weren't moving very fast as we were walking.

But at the time, I didn't care.

And I'm also guessing that in the moment,

I didn't really have a passion for walking, so it wasn't this, yay,

let's go for a walk.

It probably also wasn't, yay, I got to spend time with my grandparents and my family.

It was probably more, okay, is what we do.

And out I went with everyone else and took that walk of

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