Today I want to talk about something that could make one of your walks super fun and super memorable.

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 to 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.

One of my favorite places to walk is Washington, D.C.

Don't get to do it nearly as much now that we live in South Carolina.

But when we lived in Maryland, I went over there at least once a month because from my house

to essentially the capital was less than an hour from where we lived to the heart of D.C.

And I took advantage of that, usually about once a month.

And I didn't just go when the weather was nice. I was in D.C. on days when it was cold and windy.

And of course, in the summer, if you've ever been in the mid-atlantic it gets very

hot and very sticky one of the things that i did every now and then while i was in washington dc is an

aspect of walking that i absolutely adore but i can't do it every time I go for a walk.

And you'll understand why in a moment.

And it's possible that where you live,

you could do this all the time,

or depending on where you live,

this might not be an option for you with any kind of regularity. I had a pretty good idea of how to navigate my

way around Washington, D.C. I had walked through D.C. often enough, certainly knew the tourist

area, which is a pretty wide area, from the capital, down the national mall,

past the Smithsonian Museum. You can see the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial beyond

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