I got a message recently from a listener named Karen.

This is a message that I get every now and then.

It's both heartbreaking as well as a reminder.

Hi, I'm Dave.

Welcome to Walking as Fitness.

This podcast is really an invitation to take a 10-minute walk every day. Karen's message and today's walk

starts after this. It is going to be a warm day. It's gonna be a hot day.

Here in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, I am walking. It's going to be a hot day. Here in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, I am walking.

It's probably an hour and a half after sunrise.

And at the moment, it's comfortable.

But I know by later this afternoon, the temperature is going to continue to head north.

The humidity is going to be a factor.

So we're going to have that really nice heat index thing going on later this afternoon.

At the moment, not much of a breeze.

It's one of the blessings of living two miles from the ocean is that we get a nice ocean breeze most summer afternoons.

And I imagine that the wind will pick up.

That tends to be the way this rolls.

Not quite as much wind in the morning sometimes. It's windy.

But then as the day progresses, we get a little bit more wind action, which is actually

cooling action, and just about most of us who live here in the summertime really appreciate that.

So Karen left a message, and I'm not going to read the entire message, but there is something right in the summertime really appreciate that. So Karen left a message and I'm not going to read the

entire message, but there is something right in the middle of what she says. This was a comment to one

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