Today is test day and you get to grade me.

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.

In a moment, I'm going to describe the weather conditions I'm walking. And you might be able to hear a little bit of wind.

That is a factor.

Like so many others, weather affects me deeply, emotionally.

In fact, it seems to affect me even more strongly the older I get.

One of the things that I've been working on, and I think actually working hard on, is the impact of weather on my fitness. I recognize how weather affects my attitudes, which can in turn affect my actions, and what I

don't want is for the weather to pose a speed bump or worse, a brick wall to my fitness.

In fact, just the opposite. What I've been really working on

doing is learning how to embrace the different types of weather, particularly weather that I

find challenging, and look at those days as opportunities and maybe even opportunities for enjoyment in a way that I

never would have enjoyed it before. So here's what's going on. The temperature is 19 degrees,

and perhaps you can hear the wind. It's not a full on wind, but every now and then there's a bit of a gust. And that drops the wind chill down to about zero. And this is the kind of day that I would, the past me would have said, this is a really good day to enjoy

from inside. I am not heading out for a walk. But what I'm trying to do is learn how to embrace

the opportunity and even find enjoyment in days like today. So I'm trying to do is learn how to embrace the opportunity and even find enjoyment in

days like today.

So I'm going to let you grade me on how I'm doing with that.

First off, feel.

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