Keeping that fitness promise we made to ourselves is hard.

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

Welcome to Walking is Fitness, 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 almost 21,000 steps a day.

That's not my goal.

That's merely a reflection of how much I enjoy doing this.

And the benefits, the benefits they come from walking for fitness

a little breezy today and I always feel the need to apologize because I know how that sounds

and so I don't know if you are interested but i record the podcast into my iPhone and i

use the corded earbuds the corded apple earbuds that have the little microphone on the cord it sounds

i think uh really good i mean it's not studio quality but but I'm not in a studio, so I don't expect that.

But wind hitting that microphone is fierce.

So what I've actually done is put a little windscreen, wrapped it around the microphone on the cord and I have electrical tape kind of wrapped around holding it in place and it does muffle the wind a little bit but I know even the slightest breeze you can hear that when I'm walking into a headwind like I am right now,

that you can hear that and I hope that that is not too distracting.

But again, that's part of this podcast.

It's raw.

When it's raining, you hear that on the umbrella. When it's windy,

you hear that. You hear the cars and the trucks and the motorcycles and the airplanes. You hear

all that. And when the birds are, I can hear the birds now, but the trees are a bit of a distance away, so I don't know how well

you can hear those, but when I'm walking right by a grove of trees, you can hear the birds as well.

Anyhow, all that to say, if the wind is a little obnoxious, I apologize for that.

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