Keeping that fitness promise we made to ourselves is hard.

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

Welcome to Walking is Fitness.

This is a podcast of action, providing a little boost of motivation to keep

that promise to yourself. Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since 2013,

averaging just under 21,000 steps a day. I'm walking right now, in fact, and would love to have

you join me for the next 10 minutes or so. It is one of those

perfect weather mornings here in South Carolina. The temperature is 65 degrees every now and then

there's a slight whiff of a breeze which feels good.

No hint of rain.

And again, this morning, I'm walking very early.

I don't even have a hint of early daylight yet, although I probably will by the time I get to the end of this walk.

And what I mean by early daylight is, I guess, the beginning of sunrise.

And I'm walking facing east, so I'll see it.

I just woke up a little bit earlier this morning than I usually do.

I don't set an alarm after decades of working and morning radio and

having an alarm that went off at 3.30, sometimes as late as 4.30, sometimes as early as

2.30. It's nice to be in a season of life where I go to bed and wake up when I wake up, which

tends to be early this morning, a little bit earlier than usual, so I just rolled out of bed,

made some coffee, had my first cup, and strapped on my walking shoes and here I am.

So happy to have you walking with me today.

So Abe and I were out a couple of nights ago.

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