Today's episode is designed as a confidence booster.

Hi, I'm Dave, welcome to walking as fitness, a daily 10-minute podcast designed to provide you

with a little added motivation to get out the door and take the walk.

Today's 10-minute walk starts right after this.

If you're wondering,

Ava's doing well, she's tired, she's sore,

and she's calorie depleted.

The challenge for her is that

she doesn't want to eat.

That's her physiological reaction to doing 54 miles walking, running in 14 and a half hours.

She needs the calories, but she doesn't want to eat.

So yesterday, part of the focus was finding food that she found enjoyable and it's going to take

a few days I think to replace the calories that she burned during those 54 miles.

Tired, soared, but generally okay.

Her knee though, one of her knees is giving her a little bit

of a problem. It's most likely arthritis from the accident five years ago, but we'll know for sure.

Next couple of days, we'll provide a little more clarity on that. We did at one point yesterday take

a walk. She said, hey, you want to go for a walk?

Actually, she didn't sound quite that enthusiastic. It was more like, hey, I want to go for a walk?

I said, sure. And initially it was supposed to be a walk around the block. And as we were moving, she asked if we could go a little bit further I said sure

we can go further and as we were going further she said hey how about we go even

further and at that point I think she was enthusiastic that she had the energy and

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