Today is the 30th anniversary of one of the regrets that I have in life.

Now to be clear, this is not regret with a capital R, but it is a regret with a little R.

I'll explain more during today's walk.

Hi, I'm Dave.

Welcome to Walking is Fitness, a daily podcast that provides a little added motivation for you to get

out and take the walk.

Today's 10-minute walk starts after this.

I'm not going to get in the weeds too much with the details because I recognize that

probably most of those listening, perhaps even you, don't

care about Major League Baseball. I do, and I could spend the entire 10-minute episode in the

weeds on this record, but I'm not going to do that. It was 30 years ago today, September 6th, 1995,

that Cal Ripkin broke Lou Gehrig's consecutive games played streak.

It was a record that many thought would never be broken.

And essentially, and it sounds easy, how many games in a row can you play without taking a day off?

On the surface, it's like, well, as long as you don't get hurt, that shouldn't be a problem.

Except playing really any type of professional sport is hard.

There's wear and tear, there are nagging injuries.

Then of course there's staying healthy, not getting sick,

so that you can go out and compete at the highest level.

And back in the 20s and 30s, Lou Gehrig, who played for the New York Yankees, played in 2,130 consecutive games.

And experts had always, for a long time, put that record at the top of the list of those that would be unbreakable.

Because I don't know what the math is, 12, 13 seasons of not missing a single game.

...