Today I want to do something that I've never done before, and I hope I never have to do again.

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.

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

and I would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes. It is a gem of a morning here in

South Carolina, even though we are into the autumn season, temperatures are dropping today.

They're actually above normal, a little bit of a breeze.

It is incredibly delightful weather in which to walk. It's the kind of day where I could set everything

else aside and say, you know what, I'm just going to spend the day walking. I'm not going to do that,

but I could. The weather is that nice. Hope where you are, the weather is equally enjoyable.

So this is probably a bit of a no-brainer, if you've even thought about it. I do not

record the podcast the day that you hear it. For that to happen, I would essentially have to be up

at midnight, record the podcast, and then publish it as soon as I'm done. And while I am committed to walking every day and I am

committed to delivering a podcast to you every day, I am not that committed that I'm going to be

doing this at midnight. What I do, however, is listen to the podcast the same day that you do. So in other words, while I'm out walking,

one of the things I do is listen to that day's episode. By the way, a little side note,

because I've got decades in radio and I'm used to hearing my own voice, both in headphones

in real time as well as playback later.

You know that kind of funky thing that you have when you hear your own voice recorded?

It's like, oh, I sound like that.

After you've been doing it as long as I have, what you hear in your head and what you hear

played back to you becomes the same thing.

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