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Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
How do you feel when an unexpected health issue happens? During today's ten-minute walk, Dave talks about his neighbor who walks a lot and is now facing surgery he didn't expect.
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| 0:00.0 | Where I'm recording today's episode actually feels appropriate for what I want to talk about. |
| 0:06.6 | I'll explain in a moment. Hi, I'm Dave. Welcome to Walkingus Fitness, a daily podcast providing you |
| 0:12.5 | with a little added motivation to get out and take the walk. And today's 10-minute walk starts right after this. |
| 0:26.7 | I am on the campus of the College of William and Mary. This is in Williamsburg. To my left is the Wren building, which I think is the |
| 0:35.8 | original building for the college. |
| 0:40.2 | It's been here since the 17th century. |
| 0:44.1 | I think they started construction in 1693. |
| 0:48.6 | And right now they're doing some pretty heavy-duty renovations. |
| 0:53.4 | And if I'm understanding correctly, |
| 0:56.0 | this building is the oldest building |
| 1:00.0 | that is still actively in use for an American college. |
| 1:04.0 | They actually still hold classes in this building. |
| 1:07.0 | I think there's some offices in that building. |
| 1:10.0 | And why is this |
| 1:11.8 | appropriate I'll get to that in just a moment so I've told you about our neighbor |
| 1:16.0 | Mike Mike is someone who loves walking I admire his commitment to walking every |
| 1:24.6 | day regardless of the weather Mike leaves his house house, goes for a walk, it's probably two, three miles total. |
| 1:32.3 | And then a second walk a little bit later in the day. |
| 1:37.3 | I went a shorter. |
| 1:38.3 | Earlier this year I noticed because my home office is in the front of my house. |
| 1:45.0 | And so my desk is right by a window and I can watch the world go by as I'm working. |
| 1:53.0 | And I noticed that Mike wasn't walking as frequently as he had been. |
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