Today's 10 minute walk is helping you keep the fitness promise you made yourself and

we'll add another link to your growing fitness chain.

Today's walk is starting in an empty parking lot and I'm heading for an access road that is near the Myrtle Beach International Airport.

It is a sort of paved road with some gravel on it.

It's next to a feel. I've got full view of the airport.

As I'm walking on this access road, this is, we live near the airport, which I, is super handy when we're flying somewhere

or someone is flying into town to spend some time with us.

Takes us by car 10 minutes, probably less, to get from our driveway to the airport front entrance.

I could probably walk there in 10 minutes if they would let me walk across the runway.

But we live on the other side of the main entrance.

I actually did walk home from the airport once,

was visiting our daughter in Fort Walton Beach. Ava and I were down there, and I came back

before Ava did, and didn't have a car at the airport, didn't have someone to pick me up. The

weather was nice, so I thought, I'll walk home. I think it's about a five-mile walk.

My luggage was a backpack, so I strapped that on my back and started walking. There were a couple

of places where there was no sidewalk and the traffic was busy and I had to cross a pretty big road

and that got a little hairy. But other than that,

it was actually a pleasant walk until I was about a mile from the house. And I didn't pack the

backpack as if I was going on a hike, you know, carefully packed with stuff that wasn't super heavy and, you know,

all of that. And so after about four miles of walking with another mile to go, my shoulders

were getting sore and I was like, okay, I'm ready to be done. I'm ready to have this walk over with.

The thrill, the joy of walking has dissipated.

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