Hi friends, welcome to walking is fitness, the podcast.

I'm Dave. I want to tell you what I did this morning.

I woke up a little after 6 a.m. did not need an alarm.

In fact, since I left the morning show at my radio station in December,

I've only used my alarm maybe a handful of times.

It is a wonderful, wonderful thing.

You know, the last 14 years, I had an alarm going off at like 3 a.m.

Every weekday morning and now, it's just wonderful.

So I woke up a little after 6 a.m. no alarm.

I got out of bed, started making coffee, grabbed a small travel bag that I have in my office, took it into the kitchen.

I put two protein bars in the travel bag.

I also got a coffee mug down, put that in the travel bag.

A pair of sunglasses put that in the bag. I got my phone. That went into the bag and a notebook.

Put a notebook in the bag as well. Once the coffee was finished, I poured it from the pot into an insulated thermos,

sealed that tight, set that in a side pouch of the travel bag. Then I went into my garage,

and I got this small chair that folds up into a nice little pouch. Put that in the basket on the back of

my bike, set my travel bag next to this folded up chair. I have, it's really an awesome basket. I have a single speed cruiser. Love my bike.

And this basket is big, but those two items fit really tightly into the basket, which is great,

because I don't want them bouncing around. Open the garage door, and then off I went. I left the garage turned right into my neighborhood,

rode the streets towards the back of my neighborhood where I connected with a trail that runs alongside of a lake behind our neighborhood.

That trail ends on a road that I had to cross to connect with another trail

that runs alongside a large lake. And I took that trail to the end, turned right onto Howard,

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