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.

Hi, I'm Dave.

I've been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging just about 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.

55 degrees here in South Carolina. The wind is calm. There is no threat of

rain during this walk. I'm not even sure there's a threat of rain at all today. Not that that

matters very much to you, because if there was, I'd be the one getting wet, not you.

I have a new pair of shoes this morning.

Hoka-1-1s.

Talked before about how often the experts recommend we replace our shoes.

It's about every 500 miles if you're walking, which for me,

considering how much I walk, I should be replacing them about every two and a half to three months. I think it's been a little bit longer. And this is the first time I've had Hokas. Hoka's,

it's an interesting looking shoe

because it has extra cushioning on the bottom. And so the bottom, it almost looks like an elevated,

an elevated shoe because of all that cushioning. So I'm really curious to see how this

works out. I, my wife who is a, she works at a

running store. So she is a shoe expert. She says that the hokas are not for everyone because

there's a, it almost feels a little unstable because of that added cushioning so you're higher up and it can feel a little unstable as you're moving.

So it takes a little getting used to.

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