Sometimes the word no is your friend.

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This is a podcast of action providing a little extra motivation to help you keep that fitness promise you made yourself.

Hi, I'm Dave. I started walking for fitness in 2013. Still taking 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. The other day I went for a really long morning walk. I think I was out for hour, hour and 15 minutes.

It was just one of those mornings, spring mornings. The weather was great. I felt great.

And it was just great to be out. So I took advantage of that. As I was heading back to my house, there's a paved trail

from the center of town, which is where I had headed on my walk, and I was approaching this paved

trail that takes me from the center of town back to our neighborhood. And I was walking along and it's a really nice trail.

It's a little windy.

A couple of parts are through a wooded area.

I would call it light woods, not heavy woods.

It was on that trail when Ava stepped on the snake.

We were out walking one night and it was dark.

Now there are lights on the trail, but this was one of those areas that was in between the lights that was a little darker.

She stopped and said, I think I just stepped on a snake.

Turned around, flipped her phone flashlight on,

and sure enough, wasn't a huge snake. There was a snake right in the middle of the trail. So that's

the trail I'm talking about. And I'm walking along and I'm going at my normal brisk pace. I tend to

walk faster. My pace has been called by both friends and my wife and my wife as a forced

march. We're actually out walking the other night. And she said, could this not be a forced

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