What I like best about early morning walks.

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.

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 would love to have you join me for the

next 10 minutes. It is very early morning, well before sunrise. I've got a hint of early daylight. I feel like I'm the only one out right now, probably because I'm the only one out right now.

I love mornings. I'm a morning person. Always have been. From the time I was, I think, in junior high school,

wanted to be a radio DJ, but not just any radio DJ, I wanted to be the morning DJ.

And I knew full well that that meant getting up at 3 a.m. or 4 a.m. And I would wake up early so I could listen to the

morning DJs. When I was growing up, AM radio was the thing, not FM radio. And if you got up

before the sun rose, you could hear radio stations from hundreds, sometimes thousands of

miles away. And I would, lived in Maryland, and I would wake up and listen to the New York morning

DJs, the Chicago morning DJs, and just love that. But even now, without an alarm, I wake up pretty stinking early.

And I don't look at the time and go, oh, crap.

I look at the clock and go, oh, yeah.

It's time to get up.

Time to get moving.

And so most of these episodes are recorded as I'm walking early in the morning and this morning is probably earlier than most and so here here's why, as I was, usually, usually I

walk for about 10 minutes, sometimes 15 before I press record and begin doing this. And as I was

walking before recording was thinking about thinking about what is it about these early morning walks that I really love?

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