What's your personal record?

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Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging about 21,000 steps a day. I am walking right now and would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes.

In the United States, it is a holiday. It is Independence Day Day if you are listening outside of the

United States it's well just another Monday but today is also for me the

anniversary it was seven years ago today that I set my own PR step count. PR stands for

personal record. And it was a concept that I transferred from my running days to what I do now.

And in the running community, if you're a competitive runner, even if you're just competing with yourself,

in fact, that's really what it's all about, is self-competition.

It is how fast you have run a particular event. So if you run a bunch of 5Ks, which is 3.1 miles,

what's your fastest 5K? Oh, there's a little snake. Well, how about that? It's probably all of

five inches, and he is way more afraid of me even though I had a bolt of

adrenaline and seeing him. Okay. Well, that's fun. Where was I?

Now I'm going to be watching where I'm walking even more

intently.

So if you run a 5K, 3.1 miles, your PR would be your fastest 5K.

The PR that I remember, the one that means the most to me, was for a half marathon.

And I guess I ran maybe a half dozen and then one year decided I'm going to go for a time

under two hours.

I wanted an hour and something, probably an hour and 59 minutes and a handful of seconds.

And that was my goal for that half marathon.

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