Have you ever had a conversation with yourself like I had with myself this morning?

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.

I'm Dave.

I've been walking for fitness since 2013

and still take an intentional fitness walk every single day.

I'm walking right now,

and I would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes.

It is a cold morning in South Carolina.

The temperature is below normal. There's a bit of a breeze, so I've got a wind chill. My habit typically in the morning is to get up, have a cup of coffee, eat a protein bar, and then I head out for this first walk of the day when I record the podcast. This morning, I knew, even before I got up, that the

weather was going to be cold today. And as I got up and I was moving around the house, I could hear we've got wind chimes on the front

porch and I could hear the wind chimes a little bit louder than normal, which indicated that

yeah, it's kind of windy.

And knowing that it was cold with the wind blowing just made it feel even colder.

And I hadn't even been outside yet.

So I made the coffee.

And what I do is I'll sit in a living room, drink the coffee, think through the podcast, the episode that I'm going to be recording.

Once the coffee is done, I get up and head out to do what I'm doing now.

Well, this morning, I was sitting on the sofa and I could hear the wind chimes blowing.

And every sound I heard was just a reminder.

It's really cold outside.

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