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Sean South starts now.

Yeah. The South starts now. The math teacher and I went for a five-hour walk through town while wearing huge backpacks,

and yet we are not Marines.

We're just middle-aged married people.

But this was our weekly training walk.

That's what hikers call them, training walks.

Namely, because it would sound weird to call these walks,

walking for five hours while wearing backpacks the size of whirlpool appliances,

even though we are not Marines.

How are you doing back there? The math teacher called out to me as we walked forward through Birmingham.

Yay, I said in earnest.

The math teacher and I must exercise like this because in April, we are traveling to Spain to walk El Camino de Santiago from one end of Spain to the other, which is important. Training walks are very important before hiking the

Camino. You would not want to walk upwards of 500 miles across the breadth of Iberia,

traversing the Pyrenees mountains when the most intensive workout you have done previously

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