When a walk could save your life.

I'm being a little dramatic, but not 100% drama.

Welcome to walking is fitness.

This is a podcast of action providing a little extra motivation to help you keep that fitness promise you made to yourself.

Hi, I'm Dave. I started walking for fitness in 2013. I'm not walking at the moment. I will be.

And I'm honored that you would join me for the next 10 minutes. I'm actually in my car making a quick trip from South Carolina to Maryland.

It's quick in that I won't be in Maryland long.

The drive, I wish it were quicker, seven and a half hours.

If we don't stop and there are no backups, we can make it from our

house in Myrtle Beach to Maryland in seven and a half hours, except we've only experienced

that little blessing once. It was on Christmas afternoon a couple of years ago. Dave and I were in Maryland

spending Christmas the holidays with the family. We had Christmas morning with the

grandkids, Christmas brunch, and then an early Christmas dinner at my parents. And we

left at three in the afternoon, and of course,

nobody's on the road. And we made it home in seven and a half hours. We stopped once,

quick little fill-up of gas, quick bathroom break, and back in the car, seven and a half hours.

It can be done. That's the only time I've ever had that happen.

Typically, we're moving along just fine, and then that stretch between

Fredericksburg, Virginia, into DC, and then around the Capitol Beltway, is just,

it's hateful. It's a beat down is just it's hateful.

It's a beat down.

And it's gotten worse because they're doing construction on 95 between Fredericksburg and D.C.

...