Today's 10 minute walk is helping you keep the fitness promise you made to yourself and

we'll add another link to your growing fitness chain. As I'm walking, skies are clear. It is once

again early in the morning. Pre-sunrise, I checked just before I left the house

and I think the sun is expected to

pop over the horizon about an hour from now.

So I don't even have early daylight.

But even though the sun isn't up, the plane that you can hear is about to be

airborne. No idea where it's going. Temperatures about normal for this time of year.

And I'm really grateful that the wind is calm. That for me makes all the difference on a chilly walk, cold walk, in the winter.

Is it also a windy walk?

Before I left the house this morning, I drank half my bottle of water, part of my hydration habit, which has been going on now, I think for the better part of seven months, eight months.

Started towards the end of spring last year.

Recognized, I've known for a long time that I need to stay hydrated, but I wasn't

as intentional about it as I needed to be and got serious about it and made a commitment to

myself that I was going to drink half my body weight in ounces.

And so every morning, before I leave the house, I drink half of a bottle of water that I fill up multiple times over the course of a day.

And first thing I do before walking, before eating, is I'll drink half of the bottle of water.

What I have not done yet is had anything to eat.

Now this is something that I've kind of gone back and forth on in terms of do I eat first and then take my walk or do I walk and then eat first?

I don't know if you're old enough to remember this or if your mom just was different.

But when I was a kid, we vacationed in Cape May, New Jersey.

We also had a neighbor who had a pool, and we belonged to a community pool.

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