Keeping that fitness promise we made to ourselves is hard.

In other words, right now, you're doing 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 about 21,000 steps a day. I'm walking right now and would love to have

you join me for the next 10 minutes. It is a fine spring morning in South Carolina. And your first reaction to that

might be, wait a minute. It ain't spring yet. That doesn't happen for another week or so. Remember,

I subscribe to the meteorological first day of spring, which is March 1st, the weather scientists.

In agreement, say spring begins on March 1st, so I am fully on board with that sentiment,

and it does feel like spring in South Carolina.

If you are walking in the United States, we had the time change

earlier this morning. So if you walk in the morning like I do, it might be dark now instead of

lighter. That is if you walk early in the morning. I'm used to seeing early sunrise off to the east.

It's going to be a while before I see that. If I keep walking at the same time, conversely, if you

walk later in the day in the afternoon or the early evening, now you've got an extra hour to walk

before the sunset. So take advantage of that for the next, what, six months?

Yeah.

So one of the factors, one of the things I did not think about,

didn't even think to think about before we move from Maryland to South Carolina

is that spring weather, I don't know if you can hear that bird that spring weather,

I don't know if you can hear that bird,

spring weather arrives earlier here in South Carolina

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