Keeping that fitness promise you made to yourself is hard.

In other words, right now you are choosing to do a hard thing.

Welcome to Walking is Fitness.

This is a podcast of action providing a little extra motivation to keep that fitness promise you made to yourself.

Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since 2013 and I've averaged just under 21,000

steps a day. That's not my goal. At least it isn't now. But really more of a reflection of just

how much I love this activity, this walking, walking for fitness.

In fact, I'm doing it right now and would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes or so.

It is a beautiful morning in South Carolina, a little bit later than normal for me.

I don't use an alarm.

And this morning, when my eyes opened, it was an hour later than usual.

And so clearly my body needed the rest, needed the sleep.

And I got it.

So typically, I'm out here walking before the sun comes up. Not so much today. I've got a face full of sun and it is glorious.

Although I am a little confused because I checked my weather out before I left the house, checked two of them, and they were not in agreement.

One said the temperature is 58 degrees. The other said 48. I chose to believe the 58, and I think that one was closer to reality.

Now that I've been moving for just a little bit, and that sun is warming things up.

Yeah, it's very comfortable.

So the other day, as I was getting started, mentioned that I saw something scamper across the

road, wasn't entirely sure what it was

because it was dark, and it looked to be either a fox or a raccoon. So yesterday afternoon,

got an email from our homeowners association management company.

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