Today I want to tell you about an important day in the history of walking is fitness.

And I guess if I'm being honest, an important day in my own fitness journey, where this could have gone one of two ways.

Hi, I'm Dave. Welcome to Walking is Fitness, a daily 10-minute podcast designed to provide you with a little

added motivation to get out, take the walk, and even more importantly, to keep going.

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

The day in question, the day that I want to tell you about is November 9th, 2018.

There's a Friday. And there's a reason I know the date, it's not because I have this

powerful memory when it comes to dates, although I actually don't do too bad.

Maybe I think it's stronger than it actually is, but it's not the case for this date.

There's a very specific reason why I remember that date, know that date, because it really isn't memory. And I'll share that in a moment.

It was a Friday.

It was a day that was filled with rain, all day

so it was cloudy.

Because it was November in Maryland, it was cloudy because it was November in Maryland.

It was also chilly.

I think it was windy as well, which added to the chill.

So a little backstory.

A couple of months previous, I had made the decision to start a blog about walking, to encourage readers to build a habit of walking.

To grab attention for that blog, I made a public commitment to walk 20,000 steps every day

for a year. And to hold myself accountable, I would post a picture along with the previous day's

step count on Facebook and Instagram.

And I called it my 20K one-year step challenge.

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