Today I'm asking for your help.

Welcome to Walking is Fitness.

This is a podcast of action, providing a little extra motivation to help you keep that fitness promise you made to yourself.

Hi, I'm Dave. I started walking for fitness in 2013. Still take an intentional fitness walk

every single day. I'm walking right now and I would love to have you join me for the next 10

minutes. As you can probably tell, today is windy. What you can't tell is that I am walking and talking the same route that I

used when I started the podcast. Quite a few of the episodes now currently are recorded in this wooded trail that I talk about.

And one of the reasons I found that trail is what you're experiencing right now.

The wind sometimes, often, here in Myrtle Beach can be intense.

And this is without any kind of storm present or hurricane approaching.

When you live two miles from the beach, it can get pretty windy.

I've always been really sensitive to that and the impact that that would have on

you and your listening experience.

And so I started recording the podcast in November of 2021 and I would leave the house and come out to the main road and walk along the sidewalk,

which is where I'm walking right now. And I actually timed it, I actually timed it so that if I follow the sidewalk and straight ahead there's an intersection

and I turn at the intersection and keep going.

By the time I reached what I would call this road to nowhere, it was about 10 minutes.

So that's how I knew when the 10 minutes was up, except it was never really 10 minutes.

It was more like 12 minutes or 13 minutes. I'm going to turn right here. I'm not going to go any further because I've got a little bit of a tree buffer, and so that'll cut down a bit on the wind.

I didn't realize it was quite as windy today as it is.

So I mentioned at the very beginning that I would like your help.

I love doing this podcast.

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