I get these comments occasionally, something along the lines of walking is boring.

Got another one.

But I love what comes after that statement.

Hi, I'm Dave. Welcome to walking is fitness, a daily 10-minute podcast designed to provide you with a little added encouragement to get out and take the walk.

Today's 10-minute walk that I don't think is boring starts right after this.

All right, a little distracted. I'm actually dodging goose poop. I know. Probably not the visual that you wanted to hear this morning,

but I'm on a sidewalk that is near a small lake.

And although there are no geese here at the moment,

clearly they were here recently.

We've got these large roving flocks of geese, geese gangs that move through the community and leave poop, wherever

they are. And so I was dodging that.

Looks like that is now on the rearview mirror.

And scanning to see if I can see any geese.

Sometimes, and if you've been listening long enough to this podcast,

you've heard me talk about the geese.

Sometimes there are dozens of geese that are out and about

and they're nasty I mean they're majestic as they fly overhead doing their goose squawk

geese squawk it's kind of like at least I have a hard time not looking, not watching,

and not feeling wonder and amazement as they fly off. But when they're lingering down here

on the ground near a sidewalk where I'm walking, you get too close and they start hissing at you and they

rear their neck back and I've not experienced this, but I have heard from other people in the

community who said that the geese attacked them or were aggressive, did more than simply hiss at them.

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