This is Fun Facts for Feet Friday. Welcome to Walking as Fitness. This is a podcast of action

providing a little extra motivation to help you keep that fitness promise you made to yourself.

Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging about 21,000

steps a day. I'm walking right now and would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes.

Just before I started, I'm walking near a field, which is close to my home, and there was a little baby deer in the field.

He noticed me as I was looking at him and then he did what deer do.

He ran in the other direction.

But it was that kind of cute galloping deer motion, if you've ever seen a deer move quickly.

Normally in Maryland, if we still live there and I were recording this podcast in Maryland,

I wouldn't be doing mentioning deer sightings because the neighborhood where we lived probably had more deer than people.

But here in South Carolina, it's just not that, at least in Myrtle Beach, really not that common.

In fact, it's been weeks since I last saw a deer near the house. So that was kind of fun.

Yesterday, I put 28,000 steps on my Fitbit. That translates to about 14 miles. The most amazing thing about that is that not once during the day

yesterday either before I started while I was moving and after I was done, not once did my feet hurt.

And secondly, not once did I even think about my feet until today.

Because we're going to be talking about feet.

And how important it is, obviously, that your feet remain healthy

so that you and I can continue doing this daily walk and enjoy what we're doing.

Because when your feet hurt, it's either going to prevent you from moving forward or it's going to make it really not fun.

I've dealt with a couple of feet issues during my fitness journey.

Twice I've had what I believe were stress fractures.

I didn't go to the doctor.

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