Keeping that fitness promise we made to ourselves is hard.

In other words, right now, you are choosing to do a hard thing.

Welcome to Walking is Fitness.

This is a podcast of action, providing a little extra motivation to keep that promise

you made to yourself. Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging just under

21,000 steps a day. I'm walking right now and would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes or so.

It is a beautiful morning in South Carolina, temperature 61 degrees.

The winds are calm, and I actually checked right now.

My weather app tells me the winds are about two miles an hour.

Later this afternoon, they'll be gusting to 31.

I've just, and I've mentioned, this is this weird, weird weather pattern we're in,

and one of these days I'll actually Google and see if I can find an explanation and whether it's normal.

Last year was our first spring here in South Carolina,

and I don't know that I was really paying attention to the wind speeds,

but now it's just really noticeable.

And maybe it's noticeable because I'm doing the podcast.

So I'm aware of the wind conditions in the morning in a way that I wasn't last year.

And so, but yep, two miles an hour now, 31 later this afternoon. The skies are more cloudy

than not. Today is expected to be a cloudy day. I don't think we're going to be getting some

rain later, but I know that there's no rain in the forecast as I'm walking. So thank you for joining me. Thanks for walking. You ever feel like you just want to change it up, do something a little different? Not so much. Okay, I'm tired of walking. I want to do burpees now. I don't mean that.

I mean, you know, you walk every day, and maybe you walk at the same time every day. Maybe you

walk the same distance and the same route, and you enjoy it. You look forward to it, but every now and then it's like,

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