It was a pretty powerful reminder to stay aware.

And so I will.

Hi, I'm Dave.

Welcome to Walking is Fitness.

This is a daily podcast providing you with a little added motivation to get out and take the walk.

Today's 10 minute walk, we'll start right after this. I think

sunrises maybe 10, 15 minutes from now but I've got early daylight and as I'm

looking at the sky it looks like we're gonna to have more sunshine than not which is the

forecast I mean I could simply look at the forecast and see mostly sunny or

partly sunny but but it's not like it's always right. I see more blue sky than clouds.

This is that time of day when nature is waking up.

I don't know if you can hear it around me.

Quite a chorus of bugs, some birds. I've got some trees on my left. The lake to my right. And as I scan the lake, actually it seems kind of quiet. I see one swan off in the distance. That's about it.

I guess it was last week.

I was walking actually heading back to the house.

Maybe two minutes from reaching my front door.

I wasn't in my neighborhood yet,

but I was walking along a sidewalk

that ran beside one of the busy roads through our community.

Now the way they have this sidewalk set up, or the sidewalk system, is on one side of the road, the sidewalk is somewhat narrow.

And in theory, that sidewalk is for pedestrians.

On the other side of the road is a much wider sidewalk it's a double

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