Keeping that fitness promise we made to ourselves is hard.

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

And there aren't too many people who, when given the choice between easy and hard, choose hard.

Welcome to Walking as Fitness, a podcast of action providing a little extra motivation

to keep that fitness promise to yourself. Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since

2013, averaging almost 21,000 steps a day. Not my goal, at least not anymore. It's actually

more a reflection of how much I love walking,

which is what I'm doing right now and hope you can join me for the next 10 minutes or so.

Another breezy day in South Carolina.

I wonder if we are just sort of in this weather pattern right now that is windier than normal.

This actually may be normal and I'm, I think I'm more sensitive to it now because I've been

recording the podcast and so when I record it and I hear the wind,

I'm just more sensitive to it.

And even a couple of days ago, recorded an episode, and I thought that my wind screen

was blocking most of the wind noise, and then when I went back to listen to it,

it was like, oh my gosh.

You could barely hear me and had to go out a little bit later and re-record.

So I'm not, obviously, I'm not in control of the wind, but I recognize that it is a factor

you can hear it, and I've tried to do what I can to tamp that down. I'm just want to acknowledge the obvious that I'm aware of the extraneous noise from time to time as I'm recording the podcast.

So yesterday went on more of a quiet walk,

and I was grateful that the wind was a little less yesterday,

and you could hear some of what I was hearing as I was walking,

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