You'll never guess what I saw the other day while I was out walking.

Welcome to Walking is Fitness. This is a podcast of action, providing a little extra motivation

to help you keep that fitness promise you made to yourself because that's not easy. In other

words, right now, you are choosing to do a hard thing.

Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging just under 21,000 steps a day.

I am walking right now and would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes or so.

Another beautiful spring morning in South Carolina. We're starting

at 71 degrees. I think the thermometer is going to add another 10 by this afternoon. Again, today

there is the threat of a thunderstorm. We had that yesterday. And even though it, there were some threatening

clouds in the morning and early in the afternoon, things got a bit gray. We never, never got the

rain. So we'll see if that transpires today. At the moment, the winds are calm.

Skies are generally clear.

In other words, it is a beautiful morning for a walk, and I hope it's as nice where you are as well.

So a couple of weeks ago, you may remember me telling you about an email that we received from our homeowners association. They sent it to everyone in the neighborhood asking us to just be

aware that either a fox or coyote has been spotted and again just wanted us to be aware.

And like a day or two before that email was sent, I saw a fox during my walk in the early morning.

It scampered across the road.

It was pre-sunrise, kind of when foxes are on the move.

And so I saw the email and I thought, well, we don't have coyote here in South Carolina,

at least not that I'm aware of. So it was probably the fox that I saw. Although the idea of a coyote

was certainly more intriguing than a fox, that's probably because in Maryland we would see fox all the time. So it wasn't

an unusual thing for me to look out the window and see a fox scampering across our

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