A Walking Tour Of DC - Lincoln Memorial
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 597 Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Dave walks along the Reflecting Pool approaching the Lincoln Memorial for today's ten-minute walk...part of a week-long walking tour of Washington DC.
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| 0:00.0 | This is day six in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to Walking is Fitness. |
| 0:10.0 | This is a podcast of action providing a little extra motivation to help you keep that fitness promise you made to yourself. |
| 0:17.0 | Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging about 21,000 steps a day. |
| 0:23.5 | I'm walking right now and would love to have you join me. |
| 0:28.0 | Day six in one of the most walking friendly cities on the planet, Washington, D.C. |
| 0:34.6 | If you've been listening every day this week, we started on the east side of the Capitol, seeing the U.S. Supreme Court Library of Congress. |
| 0:46.5 | Day two was the west side of the Capitol in the National Mall, 146 acres of open area that is very fitness friendly. |
| 0:58.0 | Day three was the Smithsonian Museums. |
| 1:03.0 | And those are just an extraordinary. |
| 1:06.0 | People come from around the world just to visit the Smithsonian. |
| 1:10.9 | Day four was the Washington Monument. |
| 1:13.8 | Yesterday, day five, we spent on Pennsylvania Avenue. |
| 1:18.4 | And today, day six, walking along the reflecting pool |
| 1:23.9 | between the World War II Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial. |
| 1:29.5 | The Lincoln Memorial was built. |
| 1:32.6 | They started construction in 1914, took eight years to finish. |
| 1:37.2 | The reflecting pool is 18 inches deep. |
| 1:40.7 | They built that in 1922. |
| 1:48.3 | The steps of the Lincoln Memorial provide a wonderful view down the National Mall towards the Washington Monument and then the U.S. Capitol |
| 1:56.3 | beyond. Of course, the Lincoln Memorial was also the site of Martin Luther King's famous, I Have a Dream Speech. |
| 2:05.8 | And there's actually a plaque where he stood. |
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