Things you don't want to hear on a walk.

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 more importantly built to build

a life-changing walking habit. Today's 10-minute walk starts right after this.

I've got a story to tell you, but before I dive into that story.

Actually, I have two stories to tell today.

But the birds, the bird song is vibrant. Where I'm walking, I just want to

soak that in for a moment. I'm not sure what you can hear more, the traffic behind me or the

birds around me.

Yesterday, Ava and I were taking a late afternoon walk on a paved walkway trail behind our neighborhood

that heads toward the center of town. It's a windy path through a wooded area.

It's really nice.

So we're walking along, we're deep in conversation,

and this woman is approaching us on a bike.

And she says, one of those things you don't want to hear on a walk.

She says, listen, just want you to know there's a snake up ahead and it's a pretty big one.

Thanks.

We kept walking and I had conflicting emotions.

Part of me was, really?

The other part was, huh, this could be interesting.

We navigated a couple of the turns in the trail,

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