Do you take a walk after work? I really hope so.

Welcome to walking as 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,

uh-oh, that was not good, 10 minutes. So, so let me set the... Let me paint the picture here. It is one of the earlier walks

I've taken. Usually it's around sunrise this morning. It's even before sunrise, so it's dark.

So we had some rain overnight and I'm walking through this the wooded trail there was a puddle

back there which I didn't realize was as deep as it was.

And my shoes went in a little further than I thought, and I'm wearing these really cool shoes,

these trail shoes that are made by Under Armour.

I don't even know if you can still buy them.

I've had them for a handful of years.

I wear them because the top part is water resistant. I don't think it's waterproof, but it's water resistant.

So if I'm walking in rain or snow, these are great shoes.

And because they're water resistant, I saw the puddle and I thought, oh, you know, I can, I can step on that

and it's not going to not going to be too bad, except the puddle was a whole lot deeper than

I realized. And now my right foot is, remember I said it's water resistant, not a waterproof.

So my, here's another puddle. We're going to steer clear of this one.

So the last couple of days have been pretty intense work days for me. Not, not stressful. This is

good stuff that I'm doing, but it's intense stuff.

And two days ago in particular was the more intense day.

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