Steve gave me permission to read his email, which is pretty powerful, and it moved me, and I think it'll move you too.

Hi, I'm Dave. Welcome to Walking his Fitness, a daily 10-minute podcast designed to provide you with a little added motivation to get out and take the walk. Today's

ten-minute walk starts right after this. I don't know how much you're

going to be able to hear it. I'm certainly aware of it. It's a windy morning here in

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and probably for at least a half a mile,

I'm going to be walking into the wind, and so it feels good.

I don't know how much the wind sock on the microphone is muffling that,

probably a good amount. When I started the podcast, I used to apologize for the wind,

and several listeners said, it doesn't matter, can't hear it, don't worry about it. Like, okay.

I want to read an email that I got from Steve that is pretty profound, powerful. I responded and also asked Steve's permission to share this, and he said, sure, absolutely.

Hi, Dave, signed up for your new Patreon

subscription thought I would use that as an excuse to send you a quick update and

to answer here your recent question about why I walk quick press pause

Steve is referring to the walking friends community on Patreon.

A couple of levels.

You can, there's a free level, you join your part of the community, you can interact,

answer questions, encourage, support others who love walking as much as you.

And then there's the $5 a month level which unlocks exclusive ad-free longer

episodes of the podcast talking about 30 minutes and there's a growing archive of

these longer episodes and a new one comes out every two weeks and if you're

interested there's a link in the show notes. Tapp that link

and check it out. Continuing on with Steve's email, years ago following two strokes and heart bypass

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