Recently got a comment from a listener that kind of blew my mind, or maybe that's a little dramatic,

at least got me thinking differently. How's that? Hi, I'm Dave. Welcome to Walking as Fitness. This is a

daily 10-minute podcast providing you with a little added motivation to get out the door, take the walk,

and probably even more importantly, to keep going, to build that consistency.

Today's 10-minute walk starts right after this.

You can't see it, and I don't think you're going to be able to hear it because...

No, you can't.

When I left the house, I was walking along a different road and as the cars were hitting the puddles, it sounded like, oh, it must have just rained.

And on the road I'm walking alongside now, it's wet, but there aren't any puddles so that

just rained ambiance isn't happening.

But yeah, it must have rained overnight.

Skies at the moment are clearing and the temperature is comfortable.

Slight breeze.

Bottom line is, I don't remember raining last night.

It did not wake me up.

And can I tell you, last night's sleep was probably the best

night of sleep I've had in a long, long time. There's research, I've talked about it, how exercise walking intentionally can improve sleep.

But this is one area where I haven't been able to point to and say, yep, I'm sleeping

a whole lot better now than I ever have. And I think part of the problem is sleep has been an area that I've long neglected.

I haven't given it the importance, the focus that I need to.

And so I haven't done all the things that I probably should do to sleep better.

Anyhow, I'm starting to change that, starting to prioritize sleep even more so now than I have

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