Today's 10-minute walk is helping you keep the fitness promise you made yourself, and we'll add another link to your growing fitness chain.

Today's walk is happening in the morning, but a little bit later in the morning than usual.

Typically, I'm out before sunrise, but today I'm out after sunrise.

The sun is well high in the sky.

And I think this is the time of day when most people who have the time and are pursuing fitness either by walking or running or cycling.

This is when most are out doing their thing.

In fact, even as I was walking over here to the field where I'm walking and recording today, I saw a whole bunch of people who were out.

Some were walking with purpose, with intensity.

Others a little slower.

Many had dogs.

A couple of folks who were running.

In fact, Ava was out running this morning before I came out from my walk.

She did four miles, by the way.

So yesterday, I got my report card.

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. So one of my main motivations for pursuing

fitness is to age well. And that really encompasses a lot of things. I want to continue being active,

walking so that as I age, as I head into retirement, as I enter those later years of life, that I'm doing so with some fitness momentum, that I'm

already moving, that I don't reach that stage of life and think, you know what, I really

need to get more active.

Because at that point, it's not impossible, but it's certainly a lot harder to do.

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