There's a hidden benefit of walking that hopefully you'll never need.

But if you do, if you do need it, it'll be really good to have it.

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 and 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.

It started rather foggy and I think this is still fog, although the cloud level is lifted enough that now it just kind of looks like a cloudy day.

But I think this is how the day is going to unfold here in Myrtle Beach. Yep, we are back home.

Eva was released from the hospital around noon yesterday.

She had major abdominal surgery just three days ago.

And we were told, typically you're in the hospital for two to five nights after the surgery.

Ava barely made it past two.

Doctor came in yesterday morning at 10 a.m.

did a quick exam and said, you are good to go.

And if you'd like, you could be out of here before

lunchtime. And I don't even think Abe and I looked at each other. It was like, yeah, let's go.

So I went back to the hotel, packed up, checked out, came back to the hospital.

Ava and I did a few more laps around the nurse's station. She had been walking actually quite a bit, even earlier in the morning, woke up early enough,

took a good walk, and so we were in the car 12 noon,

driving from the Charleston area, technically Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.

That's where the hospital is located.

A little less than two hours from our home in Myrtle Beach.

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