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

which will add another link to your growing fitness chain.

Today's walk is happening near the Myrtle Beach International Airport.

It's early.

I'm not even sure the first flight has left from the airport yet.

But I know we're coming up on a flight leaving. In fact, that first flight is one that

Ava and I have taken a couple of times. It goes to Nashville. And it's not that we go to Nashville a lot. It's that

there aren't a whole lot of direct flights from this airport to where we would be flying. And

usually our connecting airport is Nashville. And so this flight, if it happens while we're walking and you hear that,

it's a plane to Nashville. I guess because the name of the airport is the Myrtle Beach International

Airport, they have at least one flight that heads to another country,

heads outside the United States,

because I don't think you can call an airport

an international airport if there are no international flights.

One of the motivations for my pursuit of fitness,

and it was a part of the motivational package when I began 15 years ago.

And it's still very much what compels me or part of what compels me to head out and pursue

fitness, not only this walk, but strength training, some high-intensity

interval training. I'm on my bike most afternoons, weather-permitting, the idea, the pursuit of

aging well. Recently, I saw an article in the Wall Street Journal. It was really

interesting. I forget the title, but it was all about the impact of genetics on long life.

And in the article, there was an interesting statistic that to make it to 90 years old, genetics

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