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Walking is Fitness

The Value Of A Slower Pace

Walking is Fitness

Dave Paul

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8596 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

It's Positive Spin Day. During today's ten-minute walk, Dave puts a positive spin on walking slower when he doesn't want to.


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0:00.0

Today is positive spin day.

0:05.0

We're going to take a negative and we're going to look out at glass half full.

0:11.0

Hi, I'm Dave. Welcome to Walking is Fitness, a daily 10-minute podcast that provides you

0:18.0

with a little added motivation to get out the door and take the walk.

0:22.6

Today's 10 minute walk starts right after this.

0:26.6

So, positive spin day.

0:32.6

I'm going to start right off the bat. I'm walking on a sidewalk. To my left is a road,

0:40.3

two lanes, double yellow line. When traffic is heavy, it gets loud at the moment. Nothing

0:47.7

is passing me, but I can see several cars coming, handful ahead, one behind, you're going to hear that.

0:56.9

But even noisier than the cars is the guy on the tractor, cutting the field to my right.

1:08.5

And that's going to get, I louder than these cars and maybe you can start

1:14.3

to hear it now I don't necessarily think of lots of noise as a positive as I'm

1:21.7

recording some noise is good lots of noise maybe not so much okay so here's the

1:27.3

positive noise is good lots of noise maybe not so much okay so here's the positive he's

1:31.9

maybe a dozen feet away turned around heading in the other direction it's a

1:37.3

positive spin day he's cutting this grass which before he started and now the wind is blowing the cut grass into my face.

1:48.0

Not sure I can make a positive out of that.

1:55.0

Before he started cutting, this grass was probably a foot high.

2:00.0

Who knows how many snakes were like right at the edge

2:07.1

of the grass and could have come out and scared me as I walked past. But now can see them and there aren't any because

2:21.5

he's cut the grass positive spin that's what we're doing today so but that really

2:30.2

wasn't the focus if I ask you the question, what do you prefer?

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