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 walking, actually I'm heading towards the center of town,

which is a place that I rarely walk as part of this podcast.

It's a place where Ava and I walk all the time, in fact, probably almost every day.

It's almost a mile from our house, and so it becomes a really good destination point.

We'll walk to the center of town, turn around, and head back.

One of the things that I have seen from time to time,

primarily on the Start Today Facebook group, is this question of, I don't live in an area that's

walkable. I don't live in a neighborhood where it's easy to walk or safe to walk.

What do I do? What do you recommend?

I understand that question because before we moved to South Carolina,

where we lived in Maryland, was, as I look back on it now,

a hindrance to pursuing fitness.

We lived on a main road that had no sidewalks.

To walk along this road was dangerous.

It felt dangerous.

It was dangerous.

And so that was a hindrance to pursuing fitness. As I look back on it now, I'm not sure

that I thought of it in those terms at the time. I stopped riding my bike regularly once we

move there and for many years did not go out for walks. I't a runner and so that became a hindrance

but I really wasn't thinking about it because fitness was not an intentional

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