Today's 10-minute walk is helping you build a walking habit you're going to fall in love with.

Hi, I'm Dave. I'll apologize right now for the traffic noise. I'm walking right next to a busy road.

I'm on a sidewalk, but I'm walking next to a busy road and the light just changed back at the intersection,

so quite a few cars that got the green turn arrow have turned onto the road where I'm

walking beside and they're going past. It should quiet up in just a moment. We've got two more

vehicles and then nothing. It is a chilly morning here in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and I don't think this day has

decided what it wants to be when it grows up.

When I left the house, a handful of minutes ago, there was actually a good amount of blue sky,

and in that short amount of time, the blue is almost gone, although I can see hints of it behind me

earlier this morning middle of the night there was a really strong thunderstorm

that rolled through the area woke me up usually they don't wake me up this one did

I even considered because it was lightning and there was thunder I even considered, because it was lightning and there was thunder,

I even considered briefly getting out of bed and going to the back porch and watching the storm.

I find that fun. Do you ever do that?

But I also knew that if I did that, I probably was going to have a hard time falling back asleep

and I wanted to fall back asleep because it was like 320 in the morning.

So I chose not to get up and storm watch and gratefully I did fall back asleep.

Tina writes, I started fitness jump roping in my late 50s, and I'm so grateful that I

didn't wait an hour later than I did. Now I'm doing freestyle jump roping in my mid-60s,

and I wish I had started in my teens. you might be wondering what does this have to do with

walking why are we talking about jump roping there's there's a point that Tina makes that is very

appropriate to walking as a fitness activity and I need to pause for a moment because I'm getting ready to cross the street and checking

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