Today I'm going to encourage you to park in the back of the lot, but not for the reason you might expect.

Welcome to Walking as Fitness. This is a podcast of action, providing a little extra motivation to help you keep that fitness promise you made yourself.

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

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

It is a beautiful morning in South Carolina. It's kind of got this weird mix. If I look straight up, I see clear sky and stars.

It's still pre-sunrise. This time next week, not so much. But right now, it's still early enough

that the sky is dark and I can see the stars. But if I look along the horizon, it's foggy. There's this

thick ground fog. So there's this eerie mix of clear skies and ground fog that really is kind of beautiful.

Temperature, mild, probably normal, maybe even a little bit above normal.

So here we are in early November and I'm still rocking the shorts. mild, probably normal, maybe even a little bit above normal.

So here we are in early November, and I'm still rocking the shorts,

but I am wearing a hoodie for some comfort.

So a couple of days ago, I gave you the backstory of this podcast,

and initially it was going to be a daily 10-minute podcast, which it is, but it was going to be scripted and it was going to be a daily 10-minute podcast, which it is.

But it was going to be scripted and it was going to be all about helping listeners think outside the box and look for ways to get more steps, to walk more.

And it was going to be titled More Steps with Dave. How's that for creativity?

And when I was thinking through the idea of the podcast,

I promised myself that I would never, never devote an episode to recommending that you park in the back of the parking lot.

Because to me, that just felt very cliche.

You know, early in the days, as the Fitbit was beginning to gain popularity, the Apple Watch was also available to track steps.

There were quite a few articles about walking for fitness and how you could walk more.

And usually idea number one is park in the back of the lot. I actually did that once

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