Today's walk is happening in the heart of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and we're going to talk about one of the great benefits.

I would even call it a hidden benefit of walking.

Hi, I'm Dave. Welcome to Walking as Fitness, a daily 10-minute podcast designed to provide you with a little added motivation to get out the door,

take the walk, and even more importantly, to keep going. Today's 10-minute walk starts right after this.

Cloudy, windy, and cold day in Myrtle Beach the temperature mid-40s the winds I don't

know what the wind speed is but I'm looking at probably a half a dozen no almost a

dozen flags that are flapping pretty robustly in the wind most of the snow has has melted. There's still some, some lingering snow.

In fact, where I'm walking right now, there's, uh, maybe you can hear this.

It's me kicking the snow. I don't want to touch it. I'm not wearing gloves. It's cold. It's also really dirty.

This is dirty snow. It's cold. It's also really dirty. This is dirty snow.

It's snow that's mixed with sand, probably some salt.

It is snow that has been pushed aside and it's mixed with the sand and the salt because today's episode

is happening on the Myrtle Beach boardwalk.

Three days ago, that snow was probably covering these boards and they moved it aside.

Probably a lot of it melted.

But they also spread clearly a lot of sand and probably some salt to allow people to walk on the

boardwalk and not slip you might hear the ocean I'm probably maybe 50 yards

from the ocean the boardwalk right here 50 yards from the ocean and again it's a

cold windy day and as I look up and

down the beach I see three three people maybe four people they're way down there

if you are at all familiar with Myrtle Beach and some of the events that happen here, in the

country music industry, one of the big festivals annually is the Carolina Country Music Festival,

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