Today's 10-minute walk is helping you stay fitness consistent.

I don't know about you, but I have different routes that I can take.

It's one of the joys of living where we live.

We can open the door and really go in a whole bunch of different directions.

Back in Maryland, we basically had one place where we could walk as far as opening the door.

Now, we could drive to different places and take different walks, and that was fine.

But here, it's just the opposite.

It's probably a little bit of an exaggeration, but we can go in a bazillion different

directions. And I love that because I can match the walk where I go, the route I take to the mood

that I'm in, and that's really nice. Ava and I walk usually a couple of times every day, and we always proceed the walk with,

so what are we going to do?

And we have assigned primarily geometric shapes to the routes that we take.

We could do the rectangle, which is around the block. We could do the

triangle, which is around the neighborhood. We could do the circle, which is out of the neighborhood,

sort of up to the center of town, close to the center of town, and then we circle back to the

neighborhood.

We can do the sunshine circle.

Now this was something that we started doing primarily in the wintertime.

There was one part of the circle that if we went a little bit further and walked on a different trail,

that trail was in full sunshine in the afternoon.

And if it was a cold day walking in the sunshine, that long stretch where we were bathed in

sunshine was very appealing. So we have the sunshine circle.

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