Today, once again, proves the power of routine, at least for me.

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.

Got an email this week from Carolyn, who discovered the podcast, found the podcast several months ago.

She didn't say how. I'm always fascinated when someone writes in either leaves a comment and Apple Podcasts or they send me an email or make a donation and leave a comment.

And they say, you know, I found the podcast, you know, a few months ago and never say, how?

Well, how did you find the podcast?

Was it like laying on the sidewalk?

Anyhow, Carolyn found the podcast several months ago,

and she says she loves it.

Carolyn, thank you for those kind words.

And she said she's not new to fitness.

In fact, has been active for most of the last 10, 11 years.

But the podcast has really helped Carolyn become consistent.

She said she just wasn't very consistent.

And after finding the podcast, made a fitness promise

to get at least 10,000 steps every day.

And some of those days, some of those steps are through running. So she both

runs and walks. And I thought, this is really interesting because Carolyn's experience is probably

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