Today's 10-minute walk is helping you keep your fitness promise, which adds another link to your growing fitness chain.

Today is going to be a bit more stressful for me. I've got some meetings this morning, some decisions to make, some projects that need some work done to them.

So the stress level, the activity level, a little bit weightier than usual. So this walk is, for me, at least, it's a great way to help prepare for the day ahead.

I've been pursuing fitness since 2008.

I actually started as a runner until I got my first Fitbit and realized that I enjoy walking so much more.

The fun of the activity is super important if I'm

going to keep moving forward. And so I transitioned from running to walking. And every year,

and that was in 2013, so a little more than 10 years ago. One of the things that I consistently

did every year was to sign up and run a race. Typically, that race was the relay at the Baltimore

Running Festival. What that means is you get four people to sign up and each one of the four takes a leg of the marathon.

And so I always enjoyed doing the first leg of the Baltimore Relay, which was about five or six miles, and it was uphill. But I loved it because it was the shortest part of the

race the shortest part of the relay and I like that also I love that that part of the course went

through the Baltimore Zoo and it was just fun running through the zoo zookeepers would be standing

there with let's, like birds and other animals.

And, you know, if you wanted to stop and I guess look at the bird or look at the animal,

and I can't remember if they were pedible, but it was just fun.

It was fun running through the Baltimore Zoo.

And then I would hand off the little chip timer to the second person on our team and then they would go.

And I'd be done. And I would just walk back to the start line, which was another five miles.

So I got in long run and a long walk.

And it was just a really super fun day.

So that was something I did every year for a handful of years, and there have been some years where I've run some 5Ks, and I think even I did a 10K across the Bay Bridge when we lived in

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