Today's 10 minute walk is helping you keep the fitness promise you made to yourself and we'll add another link to your growing fitness chain.

I'm actually doing something a little risky right now.

I'm out early as I tend to be.

It is dark and I'm walking through a wooded trail. Now it's not risky in the

sense that oh you're walking in the woods in the dark. You know that's that's really

unsafe. It's dangerous. This particular trail is fine. It's actually not that long. I can see each end from where I am.

The trail is wide like you could fit a vehicle down here. In fact, I've seen vehicles drive through here, not this time of day.

The risk is more from the wildlife. And the other day, I saw a fox

out while I was walking, and I was walking along the road. He saw me. He scooted into the woods,

and these are sort of the woods where he scooted into so

there could be a fox coyotes we've seen coyotes down here in fact not long ago Ava heard some

coyotes she was out walking in the evening and she heard some coyotes kind of where I'm walking.

Oh, and here's the bigger danger.

So the trail is actually, it's not paved.

It's a dirt trail.

And we've had some rain recently.

And I almost walked into a mud puddle. That would not have been good. I think you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to take my

phone and turn on the flashlight. There we go. Now I can see where I'm blocking. Also if there's some sort of critter around here, they may want to scoot off if they see the light. At least in my brain, that's the way it works. See the light? Let's run in the other direction. I don't know if that actually happens or not.

So do you ever get bored?

You ever get bored with this commitment to walking, these daily walks, these consistent walks.

Do you ever start the day with less than excitement about what you're pursuing.

I've got to take the walk.

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