Today's 10-minute walk is helping you keep the fitness promise you made yourself,

and we'll add another link to your growing fitness chain.

It is a cool morning.

Temperatures today a little bit cooler than normal for this time of year, which is okay because things are warming up.

And I'm looking forward to actually heading out

and being able to say,

it's a hot morning.

It's summer.

And you'll hear all the summer bugs.

I love bugs.

It's a thing that I don't share with my wife, that she doesn't share with me.

I love watching them. I think they're fascinating.

I love the sound of bugs, and in the summer, it's really loud.

The bug sound, the bug chorus is really loud.

I've noticed, though, that even in the winter, I can still hear the bugs.

Every now and then, I'll walk past a grove of trees, and there's a softer chorus.

Maybe it's a smaller group of bugs. Maybe they don't have as much

energy, maybe it's both, but I can still hear them. Anyhow, I'm looking forward to those

summer days, those summer mornings, when the sound of the bug chorus is overwhelming. And I suspect I'm not in the majority when it comes to my bug appreciation.

Today I want to talk about the benefits of taking a short walk.

One of the things I think that we have to fight against from time to time as we pursue fitness and exercise is this idea that bigger is better.

Pushing ourselves even further is a good thing.

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