Keeping that fitness promise we made to ourselves is hard.

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

And how many people have given the choice between doing the easy thing or the hard thing actually choose hard?

Welcome to Walking is Fitness. This is a podcast of

action providing just a little extra motivation to keep that fitness promise you made to yourself.

Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging just about 21,000 steps a day.

That's not my goal, but merely a reflection of how much I love walking.

Although at the moment, I'm not.

I'm not walking.

Probably sounds a little different because at the moment, I am in my car heading up 95 behind a tractor trailer,

which is not doing the speed limit, so we're going to zip around him pretty quick.

I'm traveling from our home in South Carolina to Maryland.

Twice a year I have to head back to Maryland to head up the on-air fundraiser that we do for the

radio station where I work full time. I can do a lot of the planning and preparation for the fundraiser from my home

office in South Carolina, but once we actually do the fundraiser on air, I need to be in the

building, in the studio. Those are actually long days. I'm on the air about 13 hours a day for several days.

So I'm not walking at the moment, but I will be shortly.

In fact, this is a term I just heard, just learned the other day and absolutely love it.

And I'll tell you about that in a moment.

So once I'm in Maryland, I plan to walk through the old neighborhood, which was right

across the street from where we lived for 23 years

and planned to take you on part of that walk when that happens.

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