Keeping that fitness promise we made to ourselves is hard work.

In other words, what you're doing right now, you're doing something hard.

Welcome to Walking is Fitness.

This is a podcast of action providing a little added motivation to keep that fitness promise.

Hi, I'm Dave.

I have been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging just about 21,000 steps.

I'm walking right now, and I would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes.

Another chilly March day in South Carolina. I got to tell you, one of the

reasons, one of the things I was looking forward to when Ava and I moved from Maryland

to South Carolina was redeeming spring, particularly March and April, because by the end of February,

I am so ready to transition from winter to spring that come March 1st, the meteorological first day of spring.

Talked about that actually on March 1st.

I'm so ready to move into spring that it's always, almost, it was always a disappointment in Maryland because the weather just didn't live up to my expectations.

And when we moved to South Carolina, 500 miles south of Maryland,

I was so excited about how March and April we're finally going to deliver on that spring promise.

And I will tell you that for the most part, this has been a very spring-like March here in South Carolina.

But every now and then, we get one of these mornings before the sun is up with the wind blowing

and it's like come on march time to put your big boy pants on let's go let's get on with it

funny thing is in south carolina it's probably just being south.

The difference between being in sunshine and being in shade or before the sun rises is pretty dramatic.

I walk outside my house and there's a porch so I'm not

getting the direct sunlight and it feels one temperature and then I step off the porch into the sun

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