All right, change of plans.

Hi, I'm Dave.

Welcome to Walking is Fitness, a daily 10-minute podcast designed to provide you with a little added

motivation to get out the door, take the walk, and keep going.

Today's 10-minute walk starts right after this.

I typically plan my topics a week in advance.

I don't record a week in advance, but I've got the next week's topics planned the week prior.

Got an email last night from Sarah, read it, quickly responded, said this is one of, I've gotten a lot of email,

a lot of comments over the years. This is one of my favorites. Don't be surprised if you hear this

in an episode this weekend. She responded this morning, said,

thanks for the reply, happy to share.

So I have moved aside the planned topic for today,

and I'm going to read you Sarah's email.

And then I'm going to respond to one point in the email. There's actually a

lot of things within what Sarah wrote that I could talk about, would love talking about, but there

was one thing in particular that I focused in on. She actually gave words to something that I felt but have never thought of it in this context.

So as I'm reading this, why don't you see if you can figure out what I'm going to circle back to.

Dave, hi there, my name is Sarah. I'm writing to you from Houston, Texas.

I wanted to drop you a line to tell you that I enjoy your podcast so much,

started listening to you toward the middle of 2025.

I've been tracking my walks, as you suggested, and in 2025 I walked for 255 days.

This year, my goal is 300 days.

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