This episode scares me a lot.

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.

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.

I am revisiting a topic that I talked about last year, but I keep seeing it pop up as a thing.

And so I wanted to revisit it.

And I wanted to do it in a way that's a little more authentic than I did a year ago.

So I don't know if you have seen anything about this new-ish fitness trend,

running and walking backwards, which is exactly what I'm doing right now. I am walking backwards. I am looking at what I've just walked past and can't really see

where I'm walking. And people are driving by as I'm walking backwards, which is awkward,

to say the least.

So it scares me one, because I can't see where I'm going.

I mean, I can turn around,

and I'm actually in a pretty large

parking lot, so it's not like there's something

imminently behind me.

It also scares me because there obviously is a little bit of a danger element to this,

and I don't want someone hearing this and thinking, oh, I need to go walk backwards and then hurt

themselves.

So I'm going to talk about this, not in a, hey, you should try this, but more, hey, I'm trying it.

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