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

And we'll add another link to your growing fitness chain.

I did something this morning that I don't often do.

I checked my shoes before putting them on.

So yesterday took a walk, walked in on some ground that was damp, and my shoes, when I took them off before going in the house yesterday, I recognized saw that the bottoms of the shoes had grit, had

outdoor grit and so instead of bringing the shoes in the house I left them on

the front porch and last night forgot to bring them inside so they were on the

front porch all night and knowing that I would be walking in more grit today, I wanted to wear those shoes.

Those are my shoes that I can get grit on.

So I wanted to wear those again.

Knowing that they were on the porch and knowing that there are other things that live outside my house,

I thought, you know, it's probably a good idea to check what's in the shoes, what might be in the shoes,

before actually putting them on. And gratefully there was nothing in there.

Now, if there had been a bug, I don't think that would have bothered me.

But if there had been like a little snake in the shoes,

I'm not sure that I even, now that I think about it,

to have stuck my hand in the shoe,

maybe I should have just looked in the shoe before sticking my hand in.

Note to self next time this happens.

One of my favorite sports writers is a guy named Peter King. He covers the NFL National Football League.

Well, the Ravens made it to the playoffs, and they played a game, a playoff game in Baltimore.

The Ravens, by the way, are my NFL team, having grown up in Maryland.

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