Today's 10-minute walk is helping you keep the fitness promise you made yourself and

we'll add another link to your growing fitness chain. Did you get sick this winter? A lot of stuff going around.

Over the last several months, I think I've lost count of how many people that Ava and I know

that have been battling something, some more severe than others, some neighbors of ours at the

other end of the street. She got COVID, and then he got it, and he had a really rough week.

Some other neighbors, a few houses away, they got some sort of virus that came with a nasty cough.

Ava had a virus that had the cough.

She had a fever, and Ava has asthma.

So it triggered a little bit of an asthma response.

So she had to go on medication for that. There's just a lot of people that have actually sent messages to the podcast. It was going along well, had a fitness chain, then I got sick and had to push paws.

And in some cases, pause might just be for a day or two.

And in other cases, it can go on for weeks.

You just, you need that time to recover.

You're not even thinking about, well, I got to go,

got to go take my walk. I've got to go out another link to my fitness chain. It's not even on your radar screen. Not even an option at that point. So did, did you have to struggle with that this winter?

Maybe you're still feeling the impact of pushing pause.

Your energy takes even longer to bounce back.

And then, of course, you've lost the routine, maybe even a little, what I call fitness capacity.

You don't feel quite as strong.

You had been used to taking a 30-minute walk, maybe getting 10,000 steps.

And when you finally feel well enough to restart, it's like, I don't want to do that I can't do that I'll wait till

tomorrow and you keep delaying the restart because it feels like like it's a

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