Keeping that fitness promise we made to ourselves is hard. In other words, right now, you are

choosing to do a hard thing. Welcome to walking is fitness. This is a podcast of action, providing

a little extra motivation to help you keep that promise you made to yourself.

Hi, I'm Dave.

I've been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging just under 21,000 steps a day.

And I am walking right now.

We'd love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes or so.

It is another beautiful morning in South Carolina.

If you are new to the podcast, I live in Myrtle Beach, not on the beach.

I'm about two, three miles from the ocean.

My wife, Ava, and I have been down here for almost a year and a half now.

67 degrees this morning. No threat of rain later. The skies are clear. The wind is, it's a very,

very slight breeze. You might have heard a whiff, a puff of wind just a moment ago, but otherwise it is calm.

And even I have noticed something odd about the weather.

So the last several mornings, it has not been windy.

It's been really nice.

But by the time middle of the morning gets here, for the rest of the day, the wind really picks up.

Yesterday afternoon, Ava and I went for a walk after she got back from work.

Well, that's interesting and illegal.

That car just passed that car, there's a double yellow line.

Not much I can do about that.

Somebody's in a hurry.

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