'I’m just going outside and may be some time.” These were the heroic last words of Captain Lawrence Oates in Antarctica in 1912, and they’re something I’ve been saying every day for a month as I don sneakers and headphones and go for a walk. Not just any walk: the walk that will propel me, unwillingly, towards my daily target of 10,000 steps. When Oates walked out of the tent to his death in a blizzard, Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s
Stepping up
May 16, 2022
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