Keeping that fitness promise we made to ourselves is hard.

In other words, right now, you're choosing to do a hard thing.

Welcome to Walking is Fitness.

This is a podcast of action, providing a little extra motivation to keep that promise. Hi, I'm Dave. I've been

walking for fitness since 2013, averaging about 21,000 steps. That, by the way, is not my goal.

That's merely a reflection of how much I love walking and the impact that it has had on my life.

I'm walking right now and would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes.

I've got to tell you what happened yesterday.

Yesterday, so we were talking about wildlife that you can see when you walk. Obviously, it's going to be different for different

folk, depending on where you live. And here in South Carolina, one of the things that we can see

and have seen, it's been somewhat rare, but we have seen alligators.

And we've got some lakes around our community, which is where the gators tend to reside.

And a couple of days ago, my wife, while she was walking, saw an alligator four feet long,

so essentially a smaller gator.

Not in the lake, but actually sitting on the bank next to the lake,

eyeing a bunch of turtles.

I don't know whether it's a flock of turtles, a gaggle of turtles, a zoo of turtles,

but a bunch of turtles.

And she took a couple of pictures, and then she moved on.

So that was two days ago. Yesterday, I'm talking about this on the podcast,

and then about an hour later was walking by that spot on the lake

and was looking to see if, you know, the alligator was there,

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