Hey friends, before we get started today, I want to encourage you to try a 30-day walking challenge.

This is a challenge that will supersize your walking, your everyday walking into something more, into a fitness activity.

And if it's already a fitness activity, there are levels for you that can supersize what

you're doing and take it to the next level. The 30-day walking challenge, it has three levels.

It has a beginner level, a starter level. If you are just trying to figure out how to get this

fitness thing going, this level one 30-day walking challenge is for you.

If you're already walking for fitness, maybe you even have a step goal that you're aiming for

every day. Level two will take that to the next level. And let's say that you're using your walking

and you've got a pretty significant step goal daily

and you're crushing it and you've got some momentum,

level three will challenge you to take it to a level

you never even thought was possible.

30 day walking challenge, it's a free guide

at walking is fitness.com, the resource page,

or you can click the link in the show notes page for this week's podcast.

It wasn't the first time I walked around a hospital while Ava was in surgery, but this time

it had little to do with a daily step goal. More than two years ago, Ava was having breast cancer

surgery. I was 40 days into a year-long 20,000 step-a-day challenge. While she was in surgery,

I walked laps in the hospital garage.

It helped me reach my goal that day, and walking was far better than sitting in a waiting

room watching morning TV. This time, a daily step goal wasn't even on my mind.

Ava was in a terrible car accident the day before and was having surgery to repair some of her broken bones.

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