Why I Gave Up Running For Walking
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
On May 7, 2013 Dave made a big decision. During today's ten-minute walk, he tells the story of why he gave up running for walking on that afternoon.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's 10-minute walk is helping you stay consistent with fitness. |
| 0:07.0 | My son, Aaron, and his wife Natasha, recently spent the weekend in Pittsburgh. |
| 0:14.0 | He FaceTime me. They were walking around. They were looking for places to eat, places to get coffee, exploring. |
| 0:23.7 | I'm watching on FaceTime and thinking, this is so great. |
| 0:29.2 | It looked like they had a great time, and I was a wee bit jealous. |
| 0:35.6 | I want to talk about why I gave up running for walking. Welcome to walking is |
| 0:41.7 | fitness. This is a podcast of action providing a little bit of extra motivation to help you |
| 0:47.8 | keep that fitness promise you made to yourself. Hi, I'm Dave. So in my late 40s, I was gaining some weight, starting to not feel great, knew that I needed to take exercise a bit more seriously. |
| 1:05.5 | And so I started running. |
| 1:08.2 | I did that because my wife, Ava, was a runner, and she seemed to be enjoying it. |
| 1:13.5 | It was like, okay, why not? Seems to be working for her. And I started by running from one mailbox |
| 1:21.2 | to the next in our neighborhood, basically the size of, the length of a yard. |
| 1:29.4 | And it kicked my butt. |
| 1:30.3 | I was out breath. |
| 1:32.0 | I was, okay. |
| 1:33.5 | Mission accomplished. |
| 1:34.5 | We're done here. |
| 1:36.0 | Went home. |
| 1:39.8 | Next day, ran to that mailbox and added one more. |
| 1:41.5 | Kicked my butt. |
| 1:42.6 | Okay, we're done. |
| 1:43.4 | Went home. Each day I added a mailbox. After about two or three weeks, I was able to run an entire mile. |
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