Welcome to the first day of autumn. You might be thinking, wait, what? Hi, I'm Dave. Welcome to walking

his fitness. This is a daily 10-minute podcast designed to provide you with a little added

motivation to get out the door and take the walk. I'll explain why today is considered the first day of autumn by many, and it's not just the

first day of autumn, it's the first day of an opportunity, perhaps even a life-changing opportunity

for you. Today's 10-minute walk will start after this. If you've been listening to this podcast for I would say at least three months,

you know where this is going. Today, September 1st, is the first day of autumn. So there's the change of seasons that we're familiar with,

and I actually don't know when fall begins,

was it September 21st, 22nd, somewhere around there.

But then there's the meteorological calendar,

the weather scientists of the world,

they have determined, they have decided, they have decreed that the seasons change differently than what we tend to think of the change of seasons.

And they base it on weather patterns, what the weather is like.

And they say, you know what?

September 1st really is when autumn begins, when there's a change in the weather.

That makes December 1st, the first day of winter.

March 1st is when spring begins and June 1st is when summer starts.

And I don't know about you, but this makes sense to me. Yeah, I know. We still have three more

weeks of summer in here in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. It's going to feel like summer,

although at the moment, it's a little bit cooler,

but we're heading back to hot weather, and it's going to feel like summer.

The pools around here generally remain open until the middle of October,

and we take advantage of that.

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