I'm wondering how long these clouds are going to linger.

My hope is they linger long.

Hi, I'm Dave, welcome to walking as fitness.

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Today's 10-minute walk starts right after this.

It is an abnormally warm morning in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

The reality is here in South Carolina, a couple of miles from the beach, most of the mornings,

a much higher percentage of the mornings are warm.

Now we've got winter weather where those mornings would be chilly or cold.

And then in the shoulder seasons fall, usually late fall, early spring.

There can be a chill in the air, but from about mid-spring to mid-fall, every morning can usually be defined as warm to hot.

And even in that context, we'll have days where it's even hotter than normal, even warmer than normal, and I would call that

abnormally warm. Well, this is one of those days. And about a minute ago, the sun was behind a cloud.

And I was in shade provided by trees and it was comfortable and I wondered

how long the cloud would linger and it did not linger long about a year ago

in fact I think this was video number four or five on the Walkiness Fitness YouTube channel.

Five Things I Learned Walking 20,000 Steps Every Day for two years. It was actually two and a half years, but that would have made for an abnormally long title.

And the video actually has has done really well you know video

number again I can't remember if it was four or five I was a YouTube newbie put

that out it started getting thousands of views which is like oh is this normal no it's

actually abnormal that even this video even attracted the attention of someone at

Newsweek magazine and they wanted to do an article based on these five things I

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