This week I heard from one of the original listeners to walking as fitness.

Welcome to walking as fitness.

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

Hi, I'm Dave. I started

walking for fitness in 2013. Still take an intentional fitness walk every single day. I'm walking

right now and I would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes. I got this email earlier

this week from Ian.

Ian writes, hi Dave.

I've been wanting to contact you for a few years now.

I think I must be one of your originals.

You helped me lose five stone when you were just once a week.

I haven't got anything exciting to say.

Just wanted to thank you.

Listen every day. But I think I prefer the old way.

Ian, thank you for the email five stone. That's pretty impressive. If you don't know, one stone equals 14 pounds. So do the math, Ian. Way to go. Ian is mentioning the original podcast,

walking his fitness. This actually started as a blog in 2018. It was a weekly blog. It began when I was doing the 20K one-year step challenge.

Made a fitness promise of walking 20,000 steps every day for a year.

And I posted about that every day on Facebook and Instagram.

In fact, you can still see those posts, both on Instagram and Facebook.

And I had a weekly blog, and about two years in decided to

record the blog and turn it into a podcast. I figure, you know, if people are reading about walking,

why not be able to listen to the blog as they are walking? And so I did that for, I guess about a year.

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