Now four decades later, more than four decades later, I believe I would make a different

decision, but I understand why I made the decision that I did.

Hi, I'm Dave.

Welcome to Walking is Fitness, a daily 10-minute podcast designed to provide you with a little

added motivation to get out the door, take the walk and even more importantly, I believe,

to establish a life-changing habit of walking. Today's 10-minute walk starts right after this.

Today the wooded trail is providing a little bit of protection.

So the temperature is cold 32 degrees.

The wind is blowing pretty good.

And when I'm in the wind, there's a wind chill of 15.

I am layered up.

Things that I put away thinking I didn't need them again, have now

reappeared, my gloves, my heavy-duty ski cap to keep my ears warm.

Three days ago, I was walking in shorts and a t-shirt and actually feeling a little warm well we've got the cold front that

is affecting a good chunk of the US we did not get snow we've got family in

Maryland they're shoveling out of snow. This morning I was on my

treadmill watching a YouTube live stream, his walk through Manhattan, all the fresh fallen snow.

It's beautiful, but it's still snow, and you've got to deal with that. And I imagine after this

winter, a lot of folks are ready to be done with the snow let's move on warmer weather springs are coming all the

things so my final week of college was a week filled with tests finals studying, studying, doing essays, finishing up projects.

And in that week, that finals week, I decided to do almost none of that work.

And instead, started reading the book by James Mishner, who was a very popular novelist at the time.

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