Today's 10-minute walk is helping you keep your fitness promise, which adds another link to your growing fitness chain.

Once again, I'm walking pre-sunrise, but it feels brighter this morning than usual, and I'm not entirely sure what the

dynamic is behind this, because it's cloudy. There's a cloud cover, and I'm wondering,

here I'm going to get out of my lane and into a lane I thoroughly do not belong in, talking about science and meteorology.

I wonder if the cloud cover sometimes acts as a reflector of the light on the ground.

And so it just feels brighter. Sometimes I'll be out walking before sunrise and I'll have a flashlight because it's dark. Sometimes I

actually don't even use the flashlight and just enjoy walking in the darkness.

And so this is one of those times where it's dark, no flashlight, but it just feels brighter.

Now there are some street lights near where I'm walking, so it's not like there's zero light available. And I wonder if that's the light

that's being reflected off the cloud cover again, not my lane. Maybe you understand the dynamic of

what I'm describing and you're thinking, oh no, no, no, that's not it. It's this over here. But there is something

about walking while it's still dark that I enjoy. I've been doing this podcast now for almost

two years. And there are quite a few episodes if you go back and look at all the episodes.

There are quite a few that talk about different benefits that you and I receive

by walking, by pursuing fitness.

Some of those benefits are long-term benefits.

You don't necessarily receive them, feel them in the moment.

Some of the benefits are immediate.

Recently, I had a day where I was doing a lot of sitting for work and I got up to stretch my legs to take a walk and

immediately I felt oh this is so good it felt good to move it felt good to walk it was a

physical feeling it was an emotional feeling.

It was immediate.

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