The Grandma Gatewood Challenge
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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You'll hear the inspiring story of Emma Gatewood during today's ten-minute walk.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you up for the Grandma Gatewood Challenge? |
| 0:07.0 | Careful. Careful before you say yes. |
| 0:12.0 | 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. |
| 0:22.3 | Hi, I'm Dave. I started walking for fitness in 2013. Still take an intentional fitness walk every single day. |
| 0:31.3 | I'm walking right now, and I would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes. |
| 0:36.7 | Emma Gatewood was married. |
| 0:39.3 | She was the mother to 11 children. |
| 0:42.3 | She was married to a really bad man. |
| 0:47.3 | He beat her, and this was during a time when it was not easy |
| 0:51.3 | for a woman to leave to get a divorce. But Emma did. Emma eventually |
| 0:59.2 | left her husband. And at the age of 66, with all of her children out of the house and on her own, |
| 1:11.6 | Emma Gatewood decided to go on an adventure. |
| 1:16.6 | She had read in a National Geographic magazine about the Appalachian Trail. |
| 1:22.6 | The Appalachian Trail is in the United States. |
| 1:25.6 | It runs from Georgia all the way up to Maine. |
| 1:30.3 | It's 2,168 miles long. |
| 1:37.3 | The National Geographic article had painted it in such glowing pictures. |
| 1:42.3 | Emma, with time on her hands, decided that's what I'm going to do. |
| 1:49.0 | And so she started the trail in Maine and began walking. |
| 1:57.0 | Three things happened. |
| 1:59.0 | Three things happened to Emma Gatewood. She began walking the Appalachian Trail at age 66. |
| 2:03.6 | Number one, she got lost. Number two, she ran out of food. And number three, her glasses broke. |
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