Why You Should Walk When You Hate The Weather
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 597 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Does gloomy weather make you feel gloomy? Dave shares what he does when that happens and some research that supports his choice.
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| 0:00.0 | Feeling gloomy? A 2016 study might have given you and me a prescription. Oh, wait a minute. I probably |
| 0:13.4 | shouldn't use the word prescription. Sounds kind of doctor-like. Welcome to Walking is Fitness. |
| 0:19.5 | This is a podcast of action, providing a little extra motivation to help you keep that fitness promise you made to yourself. |
| 0:26.4 | 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. |
| 0:40.3 | October 13th, 2013, I was feeling something that I had never felt before. |
| 0:49.3 | It was this mix of excitement, joy, and sadness. As I was standing just on the other side of the door, |
| 1:01.9 | waiting for my cue to enter. Next to me was my oldest daughter, Grace, and I was getting ready to walk her down the aisle. |
| 1:14.2 | Now, this was just the practice. This was the rehearsal. The actual wedding would be tomorrow, |
| 1:19.3 | but this was the first time I had ever been in that situation where I was getting ready to walk |
| 1:24.7 | one of my daughters down the aisle. I was excited. |
| 1:28.5 | I was feeling incredible joy and also some sadness |
| 1:32.5 | because not only was at the beginning of a brand new life from my daughter, |
| 1:38.8 | it also signaled the end of something very special. |
| 1:43.6 | In addition to that cool mix of excitement, end of something very special. |
| 1:44.2 | In addition to that cool mix of excitement, joy, and sadness, I was feeling something else. |
| 1:53.6 | Because October 13th, 2013, was the 14th straight day of cloudy wet weather in Maryland. |
| 2:04.8 | Ava and I, I've come to learn, are incredibly different when it comes to the weather. |
| 2:09.7 | I don't know why it took me so long to figure this out. |
| 2:12.4 | Often she would ask me, what's the forecast? |
| 2:25.3 | And usually it was in the context of she's preparing to run and she wants to know what she's going to be encountering. And I always answered the question with the most important aspect of the forecast for me, which was sky condition. Is it going to be cloudy or is it |
| 2:36.7 | going to be sunny? That's not what she was asking. She wanted to know temperature, winds, and |
| 2:45.0 | precipitation. And for me, it's all about how does it look? Is the sky going to be blue or is the sky going to be gray or some mix in between? |
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