This time of year, there is another advantage to having a daily step goal.

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 to yourself. Hi, I'm Dave. I started walking for fitness in 2013.

Still take an intentional fitness walk every single day. I'm walking right now and I would love to

have you join me for the next 10 minutes. Oh, there it is. Okay.

So I'm walking really early in the morning.

This is pre-sunrise, not even a hint of daylight off to the east.

And the weather forecast today is mostly sunny.

In fact, the icon that my weather app uses is a full, full sun, not even a hint of a cloud. And I'm walking around just moments ago looking at the sky and seeing no stars and wondering,

oh, is the forecast wrong?

Is today actually going to be cloudy? And I somehow missed that? Or the weather scientist missed it?

And I think it's because my eyes just weren't quite acclimated to the dark.

And now I see a sky full of stars.

It's beautiful.

I hope where you're walking today is also beautiful.

We're in a season now that if you have a daily step goal, it actually provides

some added motivation to get out and move. And I'm talking about yard work. Now if you live in an apartment or a condo, this isn't for you. But if you have a yard,

whether it's a townhouse, a small yard, or a large yard, unless you're paying someone to do all

that for you, and I know people who do that, in fact, a couple of years ago after we moved down here

to South Carolina,

I even gave that a shot.

I paid somebody to come in and cut the grass.

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