You and I are being offered a special invitation this week.

Welcome to Walking is Fitness. This is a podcast of action, providing a little extra motivation

to help you keep that fitness promise you made yourself.

Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging about 21,000 steps a day. I'm walking right now, and I'd love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes.

It is a chilly morning here in South Carolina. Honestly, I don't know if this is a normal temperature or not. It's also windy, so there is a bit of a wind chill.

It is pre-sunrise, but this time next week, if I'm walking at the same time, I'm going to be walking in daylight.

There are 70 countries in the world that employ some form of daylight saving time.

And either last weekend or this coming weekend is, now this is the northern hemisphere,

is when these countries shift back to standard time. If you're in Europe, United Kingdom,

you made the change this past Sunday here in the

United States, Canada, our change is this coming Sunday at 2 a.m., which means at some point on

Sunday or Monday, I'm going to get into the car, see the clock and go, which buttons do I push,

and in what order? If you prefer afternoon or evening for your

fitness walk, you've got a pretty big adjustment coming. And that adjustment might simply be

getting used to walking in the dark, but for some, walking

in the dark is not a really good option, and so your adjustment is a little more significant.

And here's the invitation, because, of course, we lose an hour of daylight in the evening,

but we gain an hour in the morning. And so the invitation,

if you prefer fitness in the afternoon or evening, the invitation is for you to start walking

in the morning. And if like me, you've been a morning walker for a long time,

you already know the benefits.

But if you're like my wife,

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