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This is a podcast of action as we walk together for 10 minutes holding each other accountable to create and maintain a lifestyle of fitness.

If you're looking for a podcast that

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But this really is not one of those. Instead of sitting and listening or driving and listening, we are moving. We are walking together.

It is a podcast of action and glad to have you along as we walk together today for about 10 minutes.

Hi, I'm Dave yesterday. Finish the day with just barely above 20,000 steps on my Fitbit Inspire 2.

And today I want to talk about 3,000 of those steps.

They happened in the afternoon.

A little bit of context.

For most of my professional life, I was in morning radio. And that meant that I had to wake up

pretty stinking early. Sometimes that alarm went off as early as 2.20 in the morning. Typically,

though, between 3.30 and 4 is when I was waking up. And most of those mornings, believe it or not,

I would wake up before the alarm. I think maybe on average, one, maybe two days a week,

the alarm would wake me up. But most often I was opening my eyes and looking at the clock before that alarm went off.

Sometimes, sometimes only like a minute or two before it would go off.

It was a great thing.

So for most of my life, I have been getting up early, and I love the mornings.

And I don't know which came first, kind of like a chicken egg thing, you know, which came first, the chicken or the egg.

Which came first?

Me doing mornings and then falling in love with that time of day or have I always loved mornings?

And it was just kind of a natural thing to do

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