All right, are you ready? You ready for our daily walk together?

Welcome to Walking is Fitness, a podcast where we take a 10-minute walk together every day,

holding each other accountable for creating and maintaining a lifestyle of fitness.

If you're looking for a podcast that will motivate you, that will inspire you,

there are plenty of those.

This ain't it.

This is a podcast of action because we are walking together for 10 minutes.

Hi, I'm Dave.

Yesterday, finished with about 21,000 steps.

That included, obviously, our 10-minute walk together in the morning.

I kept going.

Usually my morning walk is anywhere between an hour and an hour and 20 minutes. There was

another walk with Ava later in the day we actually walked into town. We live about a mile away from

our town center, which has shopping and restaurants, and they've had a $10 off coupon for one of the

restaurants that expires in a couple of days. So we walked into town and had dinner because we live

in South Carolina and the temperature is still decently mild, we actually sat outside

and ate dinner and then walked home and took the long way home. So those two walks counted for

quite a bit of my overall total steps.

But what I want to talk about today is something that happened while I was sitting.

So my employer is, we're changing our health insurance companies, The health insurance company that we were with

before raised our rates like 35%. I mean, it was just crazy. So the leaders of where I work looked into other health insurance companies and found one that while the prices, the premiums are going to be higher, they're certainly not going to be higher in the neighborhood of 35%.

So yesterday we had an online presentation from our new health insurance company laying out the different options.

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