Today's 10 minute walk is helping you keep the fitness promise you made to yourself,

and we'll add another link to your growing fitness chain.

I'm out walking once again before sunrise.

I've got early daylight, and as I look up it appears to be more clouds than anything else.

I think today is supposed to be a mostly cloudy day. There might even be the possibility for a little bit of rain later in the afternoon, but no threat this morning.

It's actually rather comfortable. Temperature is a little bit above normal, and the winds are light.

Like a meteorologist. The winds are light out of the southwest.

Fitness is hard. It is hard to get started. It is really hard to build a habit. It's hard to create momentum. And this is why you can probably

look around at the people in your world, the people that you know,

and those whom you know enough about, you know which ones are pursuing fitness and which ones aren't.

And probably more people are in the aren't category than are.

Because it's hard.

And as we get older, it's physically uncomfortable in a way that it wasn't when we were younger.

So all of those things, all of those things combined to make this

pursuit of fitness really hard. And I say that not to be discouraging, but actually to be an

encouragement to you because as you're walking right now and you've made a fitness promise

and you're doing it day after day after day

and maybe for whatever reason you might even have to push paws because of an illness or an injury

and then you restart and you keep moving forward you're doing a hard At some point, if you keep after it and you find

the fun, you find the enjoyment, and you start to feel the progress, there's momentum.

This fitness goes from a have to, which is where most of us start.

Most of us start with, I have to move more.

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