Keeping that fitness promise we made to ourselves is hard.

In other words, right now, you are choosing to do a hard thing.

Welcome to Walking is Fitness.

This is a podcast of action providing a little extra motivation to help you keep that promise you made to yourself.

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 would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes or so.

And it could get interesting in the next 10 minutes or so. Right now, 60, 6 degrees.

I think we're headed for the mid-70s today here in South Carolina. But it is entirely possible.

In fact, I would even say likely that before this 10-minute walk is done,

that I will have opened the umbrella that I'm carrying right now. We've got some rain and thunderstorms,

and it looks like the rain is heavy.

And it's headed in this direction.

My weather app said that rain is...

How did I put it?

Rain will be starting in 10 minutes.

And I looked at the radar, and sure enough, 10 minutes is a possibility.

But, you know, the funny thing is I have checked this weather app on more than one occasion

and was told that either there would be no rain or rain is coming and then it just doesn't happen.

And sure enough, it is now starting to rain.

And it's going to hang on for one moment.

I'm going to open this umbrella.

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