The US Capitol

Walking is Fitness

Dave Paul

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Today's ten-minute walk happens on the grounds of the US Capitol in Washington DC.

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0:00.0	Today's walk is going to happen in a place that I've walked through many times, but never, as a destination.
0:10.0	And I'm really excited. I'll explain in a moment.
0:12.0	Hi, I'm Dave. Welcome to Walking as Fitness, a daily 10-minute podcast providing you with a little added motivation to get out and take the walk.
0:20.0	And today's 10-minute walk
0:21.9	starts right after this walking in a place today that is incredibly
0:31.4	familiar probably to most people around the world and that is the US.S. Capitol building. I'm looking at it right now.
0:40.3	I have walked here so many times. I knew I was going to be in D.C. for a bit and was looking
0:49.3	forward to taking some walks, recording some episodes here, but I wanted to do something a little bit different.
0:56.0	I've done a couple of what I would call walking tours of DC,
1:00.0	and I love walking around the U.S. Capitol.
1:06.0	And as I was thinking about it, I thought, wait a minute, what about the grounds of the Capitol?
1:12.4	And so did a little bit of research, learned a little bit more.
1:16.4	And so today's walk is on the U.S. Capitol grounds, which in many ways you could actually think of as a park.
1:25.8	A 57-acre park that's on one of the highest plots of land here in the nation's capital.
1:34.3	That's why they call it Capitol Hill. It's actually, it's set up a little bit higher than the rest of Washington, D.C.
1:43.3	And so today's walk is actually a stroll through the
1:51.0	U.S. Capitol grounds, which is really an amazing place to walk. And so often I've just kind of walked through. You know, this is just a place that I use
2:06.0	to get from point A to point B as opposed to actually a destination that I'm enjoying the U.S.
2:16.4	Capital grounds. So right now I'm enjoying the U.S. Capitol grounds.
2:28.2	So right now I'm probably 20, no, 30, 40 yards from the U.S. Capitol building.
2:37.4	And it is stately one of the little factoid that absolutely blew me away the very first time I heard it is that the dome of the U.S. Capitol is actually made of iron. I'd been coming to D.C. for decades, had no
2:47.2	idea. And it's made of, it's made of iron. Anyhow, I'm looking at it as I am reminded of the material used.
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