Be Like Ava
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
During today's ten-minute walk (on a special day), Dave talks about three fitness lessons he's learned from his wife, Ava.
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| 0:00.0 | Keeping that fitness promise we made to ourselves is hard. |
| 0:10.0 | In other words, right now you are choosing to do a hard thing. |
| 0:13.9 | How many people, when given the opportunity to choose between easy and hard, take the harder route? |
| 0:19.6 | Good on you. |
| 0:20.7 | Welcome to Walking is fitness. This is a |
| 0:22.7 | podcast of action, providing a little extra motivation to keep that fitness promise. Hi, I'm Dave. I've |
| 0:30.3 | been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging almost 21,000 steps a day. That's not my goal. It's actually a reflection of how much I love doing this. |
| 0:41.7 | In fact, I'm doing it right now, taking a walk, and would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes or so. |
| 0:49.4 | Today is my wedding anniversary. |
| 0:53.7 | Dave and I were married. |
| 0:56.0 | I had to do the math ahead of time. |
| 0:58.8 | Dave and I have now been married for 38 years. |
| 1:03.3 | March 31st, 1984, |
| 1:06.8 | and I could spend the next 10 minutes, 10 hours, 10 days, 10 weeks, |
| 1:13.2 | talking about how wonderful she is in so many different ways. |
| 1:21.7 | But I've only got 10 minutes, and now I've only got about 8 or 9 minutes. |
| 1:26.0 | And I want to talk about one specific thing that my wife has impacted my life and, in a way, |
| 1:36.6 | is impacting your life too. |
| 1:40.0 | It was her running that got me started on fitness. |
| 1:46.0 | When I was 48, starting to gain some weight, not feeling great. |
| 1:51.0 | And she was all, at that time, she was beginning to run. |
| 1:56.0 | And it was something she had wanted to do for a long time, |
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