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. I don't do this often, but today's walk

is actually happening in the afternoon. It is getting really cold in the morning, even here in South Carolina.

And sometimes I'm just not up for bundling up and heading out before the sun rises and getting my walk in.

Sometimes I'd rather the sun come up, things warm up even a little bit, and then go for a walk.

Here in South Carolina, this actually surprised me after we moved here from Maryland three years ago,

because I lived my entire life in Maryland and was used to Maryland weather and how things felt in Maryland.

And here in South Carolina, I was surprised by how much warmer the sunshine feels.

Now, when you think about it, we're 500 miles further south. We're closer to the equator,

so things are, the sun is more intense.

And probably if I were to continue heading south by another 500 miles,

I would be shocked by how much hotter the sun feels there. I guess that would be in Florida.

So the nice thing is, in the wintertime, even when the mornings are super cold,

by the time we get to a little bit later in the day and the sun is up and today, I guess

meteorologists would call this partly to mostly sunny. Got more blue sky than clouds.

There are some of those harmless white clouds in the sky, but the sun is up,

and I'm walking and it's early afternoon, so I'm almost at the peak of the sun's intensity being right overhead,

and I'm sort of drifting into the lane of

science which is really not a good lane for me to be in. Bottom line is it's

warmer now than it was this morning and this is a good thing. This is a good

thing for my motivation today was to wait until it warmed up a bit and so now I'm walking in the afternoon.

I have from time to time talked about retirement and from time to time even talked about my

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