Keeping that fitness promise we made to ourselves is hard.

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

Welcome to Walking is Fitness.

This is a podcast of action, providing a little extra motivation to keep that fitness promise you made.

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

I am walking right now and would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes or so.

It's a beautiful morning in South Carolina.

67 degrees.

The winds are calm.

The sky is mostly clear and that was actually a surprise when I walked out the door this

morning because the forecast today is for clouds with the occasional thunderstorm or rain shower moving through.

And I was shocked to see very few clouds, but I'll take it because yesterday was cloudy and rainy,

so return to sunshine, not a bad thing. Also, I saw right before I walked out of the house

in my neighbor's driveway across the street. A fox. I used to see fox all the time in Maryland,

but not so much here in South Carolina.

And it's still dark, so it wasn't, you know, that kind of freaky thing because foxes are nocturnal animals.

And this is when we should see them before the sun comes up.

And in Maryland, every now and then, I'd be out for a walk

and there would be a fox in the middle of the day.

And I was like, okay, that's probably not a good thing.

Just keep my distance.

There was one time I was walking and one of these daytime foxes

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