Diane is challenging my idea that spring is already here.

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 started walking for fitness in 2013.

Still take an intentional fitness walk every single day.

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

It's actually not my idea.

It is the meteorologist, the weather scientists among us who say spring started on March 1st. So there's the meteorological calendar that guides the seasons when they start and when they end.

And there's the astronomical calendar, which has spring starting on Monday.

The meteorologist said, no, spring started on March 1st.

And I kind of like the way the meteorologists do it.

So I've been talking about spring is here, started on March 1st, and I got an email from

Diane, who is amused at that notion. She lives in Canada, Nova Scotia, Canada. And she's listening to

me talk about spring, how it started March 1st,

as she trudges through freshly fallen snow. Diane, I don't know that I can, I can disagree with

your experience. I'm not even sure it's going to feel like spring on Monday in Canada.

But spring arrives on Monday. And then, of course, last weekend, we had the time change in the United States.

Daylight saving time. We move the clock forward. So now we have an extra hour of daylight in the evening, and we

lost an hour of daylight early in the morning.

Ava and I have taken advantage of that extra hour of daylight every day this week, and we've

gone out for walks, and there's a bit of an adjustment.

You know, we're so used to getting back as either the sun was setting or the sun had already set.

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