Keeping that fitness promise we made to ourselves is hard.

In other words, right now, you are choosing to do a hard thing.

Welcome to Walking as Fitness.

This is a podcast of action, providing a little extra motivation to keep that fitness promise you made to yourself.

Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since

2013, averaging just under 21,000 steps a day, which isn't my goal, at least not anymore,

but is really a reflection of how much I love walking, which is what I'm doing right now and would love

to have you join me for the next 10 minutes or so. It's a field trip day, doing something a little

different, a little bit later in the day, a completely different location for the walk.

It's one of the beautiful things about walking for fitness is

you don't have to do the same thing every day.

You can go somewhere else.

You can take a different route.

Instead of going left, you can go right and explore.

So today, you know, and I mentioned that,

and you've heard it, if you've been listening to the podcast

for any length of time,

that it is recorded near an airport.

And so today I thought, you know what, let's just get a little closer to the airport

and walk along some of the back roads that are right next to the airport and see what is happening.

This Myrtle Beach International Airport, it used to be

the Myrtle Beach Air Force Base until the late 90s or the early 90s and it was decommissioned.

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