All right. Are you ready to do this? Are you ready for our 10-minute walk together? Welcome to walking is fitness.

I'm Dave and I'll dress the elephant in the room in just a moment. This is a podcast of action because what we are doing together is walking for 10 minutes.

We do this every day as a way to hold each other accountable for keeping our commitment to fitness.

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I mean, how far can I keep this going?

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Elephant in the room, that's one of those clichés that is just about perfect.

It's one of those cliches that I have no trouble understanding.

Because if I were in a room full of people and there was an elephant in the

room, could be a big elephant, could be a small elephant, it doesn't matter, but if there was an

elephant in the room and no one was acknowledging the elephant, it would feel very strange.

And I think that's what the cliche is all about.

And maybe it's not, maybe this is just a teeny little elephant. Maybe you can't tell,

which would make it an invisible elephant. Or maybe you can, which makes it a slightly larger,

less invisible elephant. I have a cold.

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