Well, here we are. First day of summer. 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 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.

First day of summer.

Today.

Your first reaction to that might be, whoa, are you a little calendar challenge, Dave?

Summer doesn't begin according to my calendar until June 21st. And that's if you're in the

northern hemisphere. If you're in the southern hemisphere, that'll be the first day of winter.

So why am I saying that today, June 1st, is the first day of summer? Well, it's not me. It's the meteorologists. It's the weather scientists.

Those folks who have looked at the weather data,

and their conclusion is that based on weather patterns,

that the seasons actually begin a little differently than what we see on the calendars.

Autumn begins September 1st. First day of winter is December 1st.

And spring started on March 1st. I don't know about you, but there's something about this that feels

very clean, even elegant. I like the way that the weather scientists approach this,

and I'm fully on board with the meteorological seasons, which means today, June 1st, is the

first day of summer. So a couple of thoughts. One, if you are brand new to this podcast and you're excited,

maybe you have just started a brand new fitness journey with walking, or you've listened to

a couple of episodes and you're thinking, this is perfect, I want to get after this, I want to

start walking. I want to build an exercise

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