Hey friends, you ready to do this thing, our daily 10-minute walk together.

Welcome to Walking is Fitness.

This is a podcast of action because that's what we're doing.

We are walking together for 10 minutes, holding each other accountable for creating

and maintaining a lifestyle of fitness. Hi, I'm Dave, and as you can

probably tell, still a little breezy here in South Carolina and colder than it was yesterday

actually feels like winter. And this first part of the walk, I'm walking right into the wind, which is probably what you're hearing.

But in a moment, I'll be turning the corner, and hopefully the wind won't be quite as strong.

So yesterday, I've just barely got above 20,000 steps and finished the week with about 150,000 and as I mentioned yesterday

my goal and I defined goal yesterday if you want to go back and listen to that one my goal

is about 20,000 steps a day averaging really it's more of an average of 20,000 a day over the course of a week,

which means I need to walk about 140,000 steps and 150, so I eclipsed that goal. Can you tell

that I have something different on my feet this morning? I have a brand new pair of

shoes and this is this is my maiden walk with these new shoes. These are salkenies if you

know your different shoe manufacturers and this pair of shoes is quite a quite a bit brighter than the shoes I had been wearing.

Those were Brooks Glissorins. So the shoes that I've had for the past six months,

basically gray shoes with navy blue shoelaces and some very subtle hints of red mixed in the body of the shoe, the gray shoe.

These salkanies are much different.

It's a black shoe with very bright neon orange shoelaces and a neon green stripe and some blue mixed in there.

And it's just, you can see these shoes coming from a mile away.

So I am going to blow your mind today. Or at least I'm going to blow my mind. And if you

want your mind blown along with mine, then you're welcome to join me in this. So these shoes I got

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