All right, are you ready for this?

And there they go.

Special edition of Walking as Fitness.

Hi, I'm Dave.

At the start of the Myrtle Beach Marathon and Half Marathon, it's a big day.

No, I'm not running, but my wife, Ava, is. And she is off to run 13.1 miles. And I am so proud of her and I am now starting to walk as she is starting to run.

This is a big deal because as I've mentioned before, she was in an auto accident about a year and three months ago two days after Christmas and before

that accident she was she was a runner she had run in quite a few marathons half

marathons some ultramarathons, 5Ks.

And the accident put her in a wheelchair for a couple of months.

And this is her first significant, significant long-distance race since that accident.

She did run a 5K.

Actually we both did on Thanksgiving.

It was a turkey trot.

All right, I'm back.

Actually wanted to walk away from the start because of the music,

which I suspect would have made for a more challenging listening experience.

So yeah, Ava just started her first half marathon, her first significant race since the accident two days after Christmas in 2020.

That accident put her in a wheelchair for a couple of months.

She had more than a dozen broken bones. Quite a few of those were in her pelvis and sacrum.

She had a couple of significant breaks in her right knee and several bones broken, one shattered

in her left foot and she was instructed to put no weight on either leg for two months, which

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