Today's 10-minute walk is helping you keep the fitness promise you made to yourself,

and we'll add another link to your growing fitness chain.

If you've been listening for a while, you've heard me mention from time to time

how Abe and I will walk into the center of town.

And I mentioned that we live in Myrtle Beach,

South Carolina, and I imagine that for some, that paints the picture of the center of town being down by the ocean, the heart of the resort. That's actually not what I'm referring to. While our zip code is Myrtle Beach,

we actually live a couple of miles from the ocean. We live in an area called the Market Common District.

It's a shopping restaurant area that's about a mile from where we live. And today, I'm actually walking through the Market

Common District, through the center of town. I just passed the barber shop where I get my haircut.

I'm coming up on the movie theater. In front of the theater is the town, the community Christmas tree.

It's large, it's lit up.

I'm walking super early in the morning.

Some would even say I'm walking in the middle of the night.

The market common is empty,

save for one person who I just saw who is running.

I wonder if this is what Charles Dickens experienced.

Charles Dickens, the famous 19th century author who had insomnia for a season of his life,

he, instead of just laying in bed, would get up and walk through

the streets of London in the middle of the night. And he probably walked past barbershops and the

theater, although they didn't have movies in the 19th century. Certainly they had plays,

some famous theaters in London. I'm walking past a restaurant right now. I'm sure that Charles

Dickens during his middle of the night excursions would walk past restaurants and pubs closed.

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