Hey friends, ready to take a 10-minute walk together. Welcome to Walking is Fitness. This is a podcast of

action. If you're looking for a podcast that will simply inspire you or motivate you to get fit,

and there are plenty of those. This podcast is a little bit different. We take a 10-minute

walk together. I'm walking right now and perhaps you are as well. This podcast really is an

opportunity to hold each other accountable for creating and maintaining a lifestyle of fitness. Hi, I'm Dave. Yesterday, Thanksgiving Day,

about 15,000 steps. There was quite a bit of eating, quite a bit of football watching, quite a bit of

sitting. But I also did something yesterday morning that I haven't done in two years and pretty

happy about the way it turned out, and it's already going to be a very special memory.

Let me give you a little bit of context first. So I began

my fitness journey 13 years ago, and I started running. I had reached a point, I was 48. I had reached a point

where I was gaining some weight.

I wasn't feeling as good.

I never went to the doctor for this, never got an official diagnosis, but I perceived that I was starting to experience some blood sugar issues.

And there is a history, not a strong history, but there is a history of some diabetes in my family.

My grandfather had some diabetes.

My mom also had a about, and it was the type of diabetes that with a change in

lifestyle, it took care of it. So there is some of that that's happened in my family and I was beginning to wonder if if I was

headed down that path so I knew that I needed to start exercising and I can't even remember

why I picked running, but I did.

And there was no huge goal other than I just need to start moving more and moving more intentionally.

So I began running.

And within the first year of starting up, I ran a half marathon and ran a half marathon every year for probably five years or so.

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