All right. Are you ready for our 10-minute walk together? Welcome to Walking is Fitness. This is a podcast of action. As we take a 10-minute walk together, holding each other accountable for keeping our commitment to fitness. This episode is sponsored by the Step Fit plan. This is a one-year plan to help you transition your walking from functional to fitness. This episode is sponsored by the Step Fit plan. This is a one-year plan to help you transition

your walking from functional to fitness, functional walking. It's the walking that we do every day.

We don't even think about it. It's the walking that we do as we're putting clothes away after

we've washed them, walking through the grocery store,

buying the stuff that we need, getting from the car to the house or the car to the office

or walking from the office to the bathroom. It's functional walking. Don't even think about it.

The purpose of that kind of walking is merely, again, to get you from point A to point B.

Fitness walking is walking that has some intentionality, some intensity, and it is designed to improve your health.

And to make that transition from functional to fitness, it actually takes

a plan. It doesn't just happen because you want it to happen, or you think about it, or you

wish for it. You actually need a plan, and to put that plan in action, the stepfit plan will

help you guide you through that process of first creating a habit, which over time becomes momentum, leading to eventual transformation.

The stepfit plan, it is effective, it is free, and it is yours, walkingus fitness.com, the resource page, or there is a link in the show notes for this episode.

Hi, I'm Dave, and today, for the second day in a row, if you would permit me, I would like to talk about a walking memory.

Yesterday I talked about a memory, a sweet memory of a walk.

It was actually just a snippet of a memory, a walk that I took when I was nine years old.

Today, I want to talk about a walk that I took exactly one year ago today. It's a walk that will forever be burned in my heart.

And I know that sounds a little dramatic,

and you'll understand what I mean by that as you continue to listen.

So the walk, I'll bury the headline, the walk happened Sunday afternoon, December 27th, 2020,

at around 4 o'clock, 430.

And it was about a one-mile walk from a restaurant in town, a restaurant where I just finished watching

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