What's your summer goal? Welcome to walking as fitness. This is a podcast of action,

providing a little extra motivation to help you keep that fitness promise you made to yourself.

I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging just about 21,000 steps a day.

I am walking right now and would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes.

75 degrees. I can already feel the humidity. It is going to be warm and sticky here in South Carolina.

I'm walking before sunrise.

The forecast is for mostly cloudy skies,

but as I look at the sky,

I think it's in process.

It's in process of becoming mostly cloudy. And a little,

a little breezy, but when it is as warm and muggy as it is this morning, that breeze feels

good. Hope you're having good weather where you are. Thank you for joining me.

For the next three days, we're going to talk about summer because tomorrow is the first day of summer.

And your immediate response to that may be no, it's not. Actually, it is. It really is.

And I'll explain more about that tomorrow.

But today, tomorrow, and Thursday, I want to talk about summer from three different perspectives.

Today, I want to talk about using summer, proactively and intentionally, to learn something new.

If you read my weekly blog, get my weekly email,

this is a topic that you are familiar with

because I just wrote about this last week.

I love podcasts.

I'm a huge fan of podcasts.

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