Preventing falls while walking. It's important. So we're going to talk about it.

Hi, I'm Dave. Welcome to Walking is Fitness, a daily 10-minute podcast designed to provide you

with a little added motivation to get out the door, take the walk, and more importantly,

to build a sustainable, consistent, life-changing habit.

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

I don't know if you'll be able to hear it in my voice, but it is colder today,

25 degrees colder than yesterday. We had a cold front move through. In fact, you could hear it

in yesterday's episode, the leading edge of that front. It was really windy. Interestingly,

the temperature actually reached 67 degrees. Yesterday afternoon, blue sky was beautiful, very windy.

Those winds died down in the early evening.

The temperature started to drop and it really got cold overnight.

Grateful that it wasn't super cold last night

in the early evening because Ava, myself,

and three friends went into Myrtle Beach

for a walk on the boardwalk, which of course is right next to the ocean.

It was still breezy.

The city calls it Winter Wonderland at the beach.

They've got Christmas lights set up along this mile of boardwalk, street performers, Christmas music.

It was a lot of fun.

And once we finished the walk, so it was one mile up and one mile back, so two miles.

Once we finished the walk, we got dinner at the old Irish pub, which is about a block off of the beach.

And even though we walked two miles, which is about 4,000 steps, and there are health

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