Keeping that fitness promise we made to ourselves is hard.

In other words, right now, you're 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.

Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging just about 21,000 steps a day.

I'm walking right now, and I'd love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes.

It's weird. With the time change I'm used to

the direction that I am walking in right now is facing east. And typically I am out before the sunrise,

but not so early that I can't see what I call early daylight.

Well, not right now.

And I wonder how long it's going to be before I see that.

Of course, the flip side is if you walk in the late afternoon, early evening,

you've got an extra hour now to enjoy that.

So have fun with that.

I was walking the other day.

I guess it was a week, maybe a week or two ago.

And something happened that got me to thinking, oh, I have got to talk about that on the podcast.

I've often described, you know, what I'm seeing as I walk, you know,

or in the case of this morning, what I'm not seeing, early daylight. I describe how I'm feeling,

what I'm feeling, if it's cold or windy, or cold or windy.

At some point I'll start describing how hot it is, but we're not there yet.

I'll describe, let's see, describe what I'm hearing, and you can maybe even hear that now.

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