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 keep that fitness promise. Hi, I'm Dave. I've been

walking for fitness since 2013 averaging just under 21,000 steps a day. In fact, I am walking

right now and would love to have you join me. Here in South Carolina, it is 65 degrees,

although I don't think this day has decided what it wants to be

yet when it grows up. So 65 usually feels mild to me but as you can tell it's also

windy and so that kind of pushes it from mild to coolish, again, for me. The forecast is for cloudy skies and maybe

even a little bit of rain later. But right now, I see mostly clear skies, no hint of rain. So I don't

think this day has decided yet how it wants to roll.

But it is a great morning for a walk.

So I'm going to take advantage of that and happy to have you along with me.

Today is April 22nd.

This is a very significant day in my life, in my personal history.

This podcast would not be happening. Were it not for an event on this day decades ago, both in terms of the reason for this podcast, as well as the very existence of this podcast or of me.

Today is the anniversary of the birth of my grandfather, Bernard Paul, born on this day,

April 22nd, 1907.

My grandfather was called Bernie.

My grandparents, Edie and Bernie, decided when they became grandparents

that they were going to be called by their first names, not by grandparent names.

And I've mentioned this before, and I've mentioned that for me, the deepest why for fitness,

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