Today I'm going to talk about something that I don't discuss enough.

Hi, I'm Dave, welcome to walking as fitness, a daily 10-minute podcast designed to provide you

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to keep going to build a life-changing walking habit.

Today's 10-minute walk starts right after this.

We have entered the phase of spring where everybody in Myrtle Beach is feeling hateful.

Not towards each other, but towards this phase of spring. And I know, I know, the calendar does not yet say it's spring,

but I subscribe to the meteorological seasons,

first day of spring, March 1st.

I do not think that I am in winter.

I do not want to think that I am still in winter.

It is spring. It Even feels like spring here.

But we have entered the part of spring that everybody in Myrtle Beach hates.

It is pollen season, primarily pine tree pollen.

And if you're allergic, that's bad.

But even for those who are not allergic, like me, we still feel the hate.

Because there's this fine green dust, this pollen, that settles on everything.

Outdoor furniture. Can't sit on it unless I want to stand up and have my backside

covered in green dust. The cars are completely coated in green. I said everybody hates this season.

Probably not those who own car washes. Since we don't have the whole winter salt thing going on here, this spring pollen season,

and it lasts for a while, probably intensely for about four, maybe five weeks,

and then the intensity trails off.

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