Today's 10-minute walk is helping you keep the fitness promise you made to yourself, and

we'll add another link to your growing fitness chain. One of the things that I used to do

was I would wake up, make coffee, have a cup of coffee, and then head out for my walk.

And about a year ago, I decided to change that up.

Decided to make the coffee a micro reward for pursuing fitness.

So go take the walk first, and then when you're done, come back and enjoy that coffee.

While I miss that cup of coffee first thing after I wake up,

I really do as I'm out walking, look forward to getting back to the house,

grinding up those coffee beans and making a couple of... I usually make a pot that has enough for two cups of coffee.

The thing is, I almost never finish a full cup of coffee. Once it is no longer hot, actually once it's no longer warm,

I lose interest. I don't want room temperature coffee. I certainly don't want cold coffee.

That's one of those things that I've never quite understood

fully. I understand it, you know, in summer when it's hot and you want a cool drink and you love

coffee. I intellectually get that, but what I've never been able to wrap my brain around or taste buds

is the idea of cold coffee. For me, coffee needs to be hot. And so I tend to lose interest once the coffee

reaches room temperature. I do have an insulated bottle that will keep my coffee hot for hours.

And I'll make a pot of coffee, put it in this insulated bottle, hop on my bike, ride to the beach.

Sometimes I'm there as the sun rises. Usually it's, the sun is coming up way too early for me to do that, but I'm there

not long after the sun has risen. That coffee tends to stay hotter longer. I'm looking forward to

my coffee when this walk is done. By the way, did you know there's actually research indicating

that coffee and walking pair well together? Yeah. 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.

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