What's next for this podcast? 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 just about 21,000 steps a day. I am walking right now

and would love to have you join me. A muggy morning in South Carolina, but the temperature is

comfortable. The humidity actually feels comfortable. The skies are clear. clear winds are calm it is a beautiful morning

for a walk and i hope it is nice where you are as well so last fall i made the decision to

start this podcast and a couple of days ago i think I even mentioned that I had a podcast idea

almost five years ago I was going to call it more steps with Dave recorded some sample

episodes sounded dumb scrap the idea until last year and decided that what I thought might be helpful is a 10-minute podcast while I'm walking

that actually would provide a little extra motivation to help you get out and walk

and to keep that fitness promise that you made yourself. So made the decision

to launch on December 1st. I actually started recording on November 1st every day and then went live

probably mid-November with the official launch on December 1st. And I made a commitment to myself, a promise to myself, that I would do this every day for

six months even if no one listens.

So I was not going to allow that to be the determining factor up until about June 1st.

Gratefully, people are listening, as you know, because you're listening right now.

And the audience, actually, surprisingly, to me, is around, not just around the country but around the world and so I am

incredibly grateful wherever you are listening thank you so much and because I had made the

promise the commitment to go until June 1st, regardless and then I would

reevaluate. Obviously, we are past June 1st, so I've decided that I'm going to keep going

because there are listeners in addition to you, and the feedback I'm getting is very positive, and the podcast is providing value for many.

So I'm going to keep going.

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