Today's 10-minute walk is happening on another hot, sticky morning here in South Carolina.

There are some days when we leave the air-conditioned comfort of our home, open that door and head out.

It's like, oh, this one's going to be stickier than usual,

and sometimes even my glasses will fog up.

Got an email from Debbie.

She heard the episode, not from this past week, but the previous week, is walking really a workout.

And that episode was prompted by another email from a listener who had been a runner.

And sometimes as she was walking, even wondered, is this really a workout?

Compared to the running, is this really a workout?

And so I addressed that question in that episode.

And Debbie sent me an email and she told me how much she appreciated what I had to say because her neighbor does, she said, Spartan activities.

So some pretty intense fitness activities.

And Debbie said, you know, that, every now and then, that makes me feel like a wimp.

Fitness is hard, whether you're doing Spartan or you're walking every day, fitness is hard.

And Debbie said that hearing that episode is walking really a workout was encouraging

to the point that she's actually going to listen to it from time to time moving forward and then

she said that she is so much more devoted and consistent with walking as a fitness activity

than she was in years past.

She actually kept records.

And she went back and looked at the records

of how often she was walking

and recognizes that she's walking consistently

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