The Value Of A Small Walking Goal
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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A big walking goal can be motivating, but a small goal has BIG benefits. During today's ten-minute walk, Dave explains why he's glad his daily goal is really small.
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| 0:00.0 | This is why I have the daily walking goal that I have. |
| 0:08.0 | Hi, I'm Dave. Welcome to Walking is Fitness, a daily 10-minute podcast designed to provide you |
| 0:15.0 | with a little added motivation to get out the door, take the walk, and I believe even more importantly, to keep going. |
| 0:22.1 | Today's 10-minute walk starts right after this. |
| 0:29.2 | If it sounds like I'm using my inside voice a little bit more than usual, there's a reason. |
| 0:36.5 | I'm walking through a neighborhood that is not mine. It is really early in the morning. And the houses are close to the sidewalk where I'm walking, so I don't want to alarm people. This strange man walking through the neighborhood talking to himself. |
| 0:58.9 | So I spent most of yesterday in the car. |
| 1:00.8 | Let's see. |
| 1:01.6 | Do the math. |
| 1:05.3 | I think it was 10 hours of driving. |
| 1:10.7 | If you listened to yesterday's episode, I called what I was getting ready to do going on an epic road trip. For me, anything |
| 1:15.2 | longer than two hours in the car is epic. I don't do long car rides really well. In fact, |
| 1:23.0 | I've got people in my world who say they love these long car trips and I never have never |
| 1:30.3 | quite understood that I will say this as much as I've talked about how I've been |
| 1:37.3 | enjoying my brown leather chair more and more yesterday was a reminder that that love of sitting only goes so far. |
| 1:49.0 | So, quick context. Earlier in the week, as we were looking at the weather for the weekend for Ava's MB24 event, the forecast for Myrtle Beach kept getting worse and worse. |
| 2:06.9 | At one point, it didn't last long, but at one point the forecast was for two to three inches of ice. |
| 2:21.9 | Talk about epic. When I saw that, I started checking out the forecast in Florida. We have two of our daughters who live in |
| 2:26.8 | Florida. One lives in, oh I should have turned there, one lives in Port St. Lucie, and the forecast, and that's on the Atlantic side. |
| 2:40.1 | And the forecast there was for sunshine and temperatures, I think, low 80s. |
| 2:46.8 | We have another daughter who lives on the Panhandle in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. |
| 2:52.5 | And the forecast there was also for warm-ish weather, not quite as extravagant as Port St. Lucy. |
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