Keeping that fitness promise we made to ourselves is hard.

In other words, right now, you're choosing to do a hard thing.

Welcome to Walking is Fitness. This is a podcast of action,

providing a little extra motivation to keep that promise you made to yourself.

Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging just about 21,000 steps.

Again, that's not my goal. That's merely a reflection of how much I love doing this.

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

It is a mild spring morning in South Carolina.

I did, however, shortly after I left the house, felt a light mist upon my head.

And I did check the forecast. This seems to be a common theme here. And there was no rain expected in the next 60 minutes.

And maybe to the weather scientists, the weather experts,

a fine mist upon my head doesn't qualify as rain, but it would have been good to know.

I can see that the sidewalk is wet.

And while it is humid here in South Carolina, I don't think it's this humid.

So there has been some rain that's moved through the area maybe overnight.

And perhaps that mist is just kind of lingering.

So last year, something happened after we moved down here to South Carolina, because I've talked about Ava, was in that terrible accident two days after Christmas, and there were several months of intense recovery, and then towards the middle late spring she was able to

move about on her own did not require the assistance my assistance as much as certainly the first

couple of months after the accident.

So I had some more time freedom.

And essentially, towards the end of spring last year, was in a place where I anticipated I was

going to be right after we moved down here.

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