Can I Take A Day Off?
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
This is a normal question as you're building a new fitness habit. During today's ten-minute walk, Dave tells the story of Sandy Hulme who built a running streak lasting 50 years. But, the point of today's episode might surprise you.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's 10-minute walk is helping you keep the fitness promise you made to yourself, |
| 0:08.0 | and we'll add another link to your growing fitness chain. |
| 0:12.0 | This morning was one of those weird weather decisions, looked at the forecast before I headed out. |
| 0:20.0 | Check the temperature, check the temperature, check the precipitation, |
| 0:23.4 | check the wind, and probably because it's January and my default is, it's cold, I bundled up, |
| 0:33.6 | got my ski cap on, and then I walked out the front door, and for the first few minutes |
| 0:41.0 | was thinking, huh, I wonder if I'm actually going to need this. It doesn't feel as cold as I |
| 0:48.1 | expected that it would, and walked for just a little bit out of our neighborhood and then turned the corner, |
| 0:57.5 | and now I'm walking into the wind, and I'm thinking, yeah, glad I got this hat on. |
| 1:06.0 | When Sandy Hume was 11 years old in sixth grade, he decided he was going to run a mile every day. |
| 1:17.0 | Except Sandy didn't frame it quite that way. I mean, he said, I'm going to run a mile every day, |
| 1:23.3 | but it wasn't framed in his mind in the positive sense. |
| 1:30.2 | It was framed in the negative sense. |
| 1:33.3 | Meaning he said, I'm not going to miss a day ever. |
| 1:39.6 | That was in March 1973. |
| 1:46.0 | Last March, 2023, |
| 1:48.0 | Sandy, with a very large group of people, |
| 1:52.0 | celebrated 50 years of running a mile every day |
| 1:57.0 | without missing a single day. |
| 2:00.0 | Welcome to Walking is Fitness. |
| 2:03.1 | This is a podcast of action, |
| 2:04.9 | providing a little extra motivation |
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