It was so overwhelming I didn't start for years.

Have you ever felt that way? Something just felt so overwhelming that you kept kicking that can down the road.

Hi, I'm Dave. Welcome to Walking Us Fitness, a daily podcast designed to provide you with a little added motivation to get out and take the walk.

Today's 10-minute walk, hopefully

doesn't feel overwhelming, and we'll get started after this. A little behind

the scenes one of the things that I'm always aware of, always thinking about is what are the external noises that you hear as I'm recording, as we're

walking together. And one of the things that I think about in that context is the surface on which I'm walking.

And a lot of times the surface is a quiet surface, and so you don't hear my footsteps.

But today, hear that?

Today I'm starting out, and I'm in a parking lot that has some loose gravel on it.

This is an old parking lot in a building that is not used much and so the parking lot is

in disrepair. Not a very attractive parking lot but it's great for the sound of

footsteps but this parking lot is only going to be a small part of today's episode

because I'm almost to the other side of the parking lot and we'll be back on

regular pavement a concrete sidewalk

So a question popped up in the walking is fitness YouTube channel

very simple question it has all of one two two, three, four, nine words,

but it's a profound question.

How do I start walking every day?

How do I start taking a walk every day?

So I wanna tell you a story.

This, I guess, started, well, it started 10 years ago when Ava and I made the decision that we were going to move out of Maryland in five years.

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