A stroll down memory lane. Welcome to walking is fitness. This is a podcast of action

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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.

A few nights ago, I was sitting in my home office.

Dave and I were done with dinner. The sun had not set yet. It was in the process. It was setting, but it hadn't completely set.

Ava was out in the dining room. And it had been a long day for both of us. We were both tired.

But I thought, you know, I wonder if she wants to take one more walk.

And so I got up out of my chair, walked into the dining room,

and before I even said the words, she looked at me and said,

you want to take another walk?

And I got to thinking about how intertwined walking is with our relationship.

And as I thought about it, it was like, oh, it's even a bigger part of who we are as a couple than I realized.

And I started wondering, what's our most memorable walk?

Because we've taken a lot, and I've told you about a few of those.

But what's the most memorable walk?

Well, certainly the walk the night of the surgery, this was recently major abdominal surgery,

and the doctor prescribed walking as part of Ava's recovery, and she said, even tonight,

if she can get up and do some walking, that would be great.

And when I went into her room, looking at her,

she was just coming out of the anesthesia,

and I'm looking at her thinking there's no way she's getting up and walking today.

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