Hi friends, before we get to this episode of Walking is Fitness, three things. Number one,

and it'll become quickly apparent. The topic is a little bit different this week than usual.

Number two, you may be aware that this podcast is the audio version of the blog, Walking is Fitness.

And so I refer to the blog several times at the beginning.

If you don't access the blog, maybe you didn't even know it was available,

but you notice that the podcast disappeared for about six weeks.

This episode will begin to explain what happened.

And then number three, don't hate me for this, the story will not be resolved in this week's

episode.

It's called a cliffhanger.

Now, if you hate cliffhangers, if you hate waiting, my recommendation is don't listen.

Don't listen to this episode.

Wait until next week when the second half is released and then you can listen to both of them together.

All right?

That's it.

Thanks so much for listening.

Let's get started.

Life changed on December 27th. If you've been reading this block for the past two months,

each of those articles was written before the end of 2020 and have not reflected our current reality. After December 27th, I did not have time or the motivation to write anything new,

and I wrestled with what to do. Pull those pre-written articles and push pause on the blog until I

could write again. End the blog altogether, since I had little motivation to keep going. Let the two

months of pre-written articles run and decide at

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