Recently saw a post on the Start Today Facebook group from someone named Albert.

By the way, if you're not familiar, the Start Today group is part of the Today show.

Last year, I think it was in June.

They began, at least this is when I became aware of it, probably was even earlier than that,

but they began a real intentional push to encourage viewers to move more,

to take up walking as a fitness activity.

And so they talked about it on the Today Show.

They have this Facebook group that provides additional encouragement and resources.

And I think there may be more than 150,000 people now on the group.

I think, at least what I see from the posts, many of the folks are still new in this journey towards fitness.

And they're looking for encouragement, they're looking

for suggestions. And so this post from Albert really caught my attention because he's not just

getting started. He posted that he began walking as a fitness activity every day in 2004.

So it's 19 years.

He's been walking for fitness for 19 years.

He's done the math.

He's logged over 82,000 miles.

He primarily listens to audiobooks while he's walking.

And he wrote that he's listened to more than 600 books

and he also mentioned some of the experiences that he's had because of his walking that walking has

been a part of and i found the post really encouraging.

It also got me thinking because I've been walking now for fitness.

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