Today, an update from Kim. Welcome to Walking is Fitness. This is a podcast of action, providing

a little extra motivation to help you keep that fitness promise you made yourself. Hi, I'm Dave. I started

walking for fitness in 2013. Still take an intentional fitness walk every

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

A little more than a month ago, I got an email from Kim, a new listener to the podcast. She had

found walking his fitness through the Start Today Facebook group.

That's the Facebook group that is associated with the Today Show.

And primarily is an encouragement for those who are pursuing fitness primarily through walking.

Someone mentioned walking as fitness.

Kim checked it out and began listening. Actually went back to the very beginning. So even before this podcast was a daily, hey, I'm walking, would you walk with me? Format, it was essentially the

audio version of my blog, Walking is Fitness. So it only came out

once a week. In November 2021, it transitioned from that format to pretty much what it is today.

So Kim actually went back to the very beginning and started listening to

those blog posts and every now and then would listen to a current edition. So she had kind of this

one-two thing, me sitting in a studio reading the blog, and then me out walking and talking.

Soon after she found the podcast and began walking, Kim sent me an email, and I read that in part on the episode January 5th.

So if you want to get the backstory of Kim with some more details, listen to that episode from January 5th.

Well, earlier this week, I got a very encouraging update from Kim, and with her permission, I'm going to share some of what she says.

Referring to her first email, I think I let you know that I had been walking for a while

but would always skip a day here and there.

This time, though, at your suggestion, I'm more focused on

making walking an everyday thing that eventually leads again to a lifestyle of 10,000 steps a day.

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