Today's 10-minute walk is helping you keep your fitness promise, which adds another link to your

growing fitness chain. I am out here really early today, of course, with the sunrise getting

later and later. Early is now a relative term several months ago. Walking at this

time, I would have had daylight. Still have a lot of time before daylight arrives. I've actually got

a flashlight as I'm walking so I can stay safe. I've seen some things while I'm walking.

Other people walking differently than I do.

I have seen someone walking around the lake.

She was wearing workout clothes and holding a long umbrella.

It was not open, not like it was raining, but she was holding the

umbrella in both hands, and she was holding it above her head. To paint the picture is parallel

with the ground. It's not like she was holding it as if it was getting ready to rain and she was

going to open it. Both hands,

one hand on the right side of the umbrella, one hand on the left side of the umbrella, the top

of the umbrella, and she was holding it. I don't think that she was using it as an umbrella.

I think the idea there was that she was walking with both arms extended above her head and the umbrella just gave

her something to hold on to. I've seen someone running backwards. Saw that once. First time I'd

ever seen it and I did a little research on that. Found out that running backwards is a thing, also found out that walking

backwards is a thing. In fact, did an entire episode while I was walking backwards because

there are some fitness benefits to doing that, to running backwards or to walking backwards.

And I did see someone who posted online

that they were walking backwards up a hill. So I guess that's kind of supersizing that whole

walking backwards thing. I've seen various people doing power walks. And a power walk actually

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