You are inspiring others. How do you feel about that? Welcome to walking is fitness. This is a podcast of action, providing a little extra motivation to help you keep that fitness promise you made to yourself. Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging about 21,000

steps a day. I'm walking right now, and I would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes.

So what you are hearing is not my first attempt at doing today's episode.

Just a short while ago, I was enjoying the upside and the downside of living where we live,

which is in a warmer climate than where I grew up.

The upside is, here it is the day before Thanksgiving, and I'm still

wearing shorts. Got a hoodie on, but I'm still wearing shorts, and it's comfortable. That was not my

reality in Maryland. No, not at all. That's the upside. The downside, I was walking through that wooded trail that I so enjoy, and for whatever reason

today the mosquitoes were having a feast on my legs and my neck.

I don't remember that in Maryland either. They should be gone. Whatever mosquitoes do in the cold months, they should be doing. Instead, they're still eating and sucking my blood.

I hope where you're walking today is both pleasant and mosquito-free.

Thanks for joining me.

So I saw a post recently on the Start Today Facebook group,

and if you're not familiar, the Today Show has been, for most of this year, encouraging and motivating people to pursue fitness primarily through

walking. And each month they have a different challenge. Again, most of the months, it

centers around the activity of walking. And there's this group, the Start Today, Facebook group that has, I don't know how many tens of thousands of members now, over 90,000. And you join the group and you ask questions, you can express disappointment and challenges and people encourage you for the most part.

And somebody recently posted, and I forget the exact language, but essentially it was a reminder that

what you're doing by walking every day is inspiring others.

Have you ever thought about that?

Have you ever realized that as you walk every day, people are noticing and being inspired.

And perhaps even your pursuit of fitness is the result of someone else's.

You saw what they were doing.

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