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Situation: National Walk at Work Day falls on the first (and only, in the foreseeable future) 90+ degree day.
Tea Time: If you're smart, before and during the walk. If not, as soon as you stumble back to the car, gasping and with sweat pouring down your body.
Tea Type: Iced, naturally.
I love to walk, especially along the trails out by work. I participate in the Walk at Work event every year, and not just for the free lunch, the Blue Points (redeemable for actual money! Well, gift cards), and the excuse to eek slightly more than an hour out of a lunch break. Not that those aren't reasons enough, obviously, but despite my fluffiness, I enjoy a nice long stroll.
What I do not enjoy, however, is heat. Ever since succumbing to heat exhaustion 15 years (or more) ago, my heat tolerance is very, very low. I take that back. Last year, when the temperature was 110 but with only 10% humidity I was fine. Perfectly fine. But we rarely get that kind of heat here. No, here we get a sauna. I've never used the sauna at the gym, I don't need to. The outdoors works... probably better.
So the usual brisk walk was greatly reduced to a leisurely stroll and I still ended up dripping and exhausted. I did stop and take some pictures along the way, mostly with my Little Visitor Charlie, but a few landscape scenes, as well. I'll post those as soon as I get off my lazy butt and download them from the camera. It's downstairs. Stairs. Ugh. (I've also been on a quest to increase my leg strength by doing squats, yesterday I got up to 45 - I do them by sliding up and down a wall, keeping my back straight and going far enough down that my thighs are parallel to the ground. It's kinda the weenie way, but I felt good when I could out-do my much thinner, fitter friend. This fluff covers a lot of muscle, apparently. But it has left me a little tired...)
Tea Time: If you're smart, before and during the walk. If not, as soon as you stumble back to the car, gasping and with sweat pouring down your body.
Tea Type: Iced, naturally.
I love to walk, especially along the trails out by work. I participate in the Walk at Work event every year, and not just for the free lunch, the Blue Points (redeemable for actual money! Well, gift cards), and the excuse to eek slightly more than an hour out of a lunch break. Not that those aren't reasons enough, obviously, but despite my fluffiness, I enjoy a nice long stroll.
What I do not enjoy, however, is heat. Ever since succumbing to heat exhaustion 15 years (or more) ago, my heat tolerance is very, very low. I take that back. Last year, when the temperature was 110 but with only 10% humidity I was fine. Perfectly fine. But we rarely get that kind of heat here. No, here we get a sauna. I've never used the sauna at the gym, I don't need to. The outdoors works... probably better.
So the usual brisk walk was greatly reduced to a leisurely stroll and I still ended up dripping and exhausted. I did stop and take some pictures along the way, mostly with my Little Visitor Charlie, but a few landscape scenes, as well. I'll post those as soon as I get off my lazy butt and download them from the camera. It's downstairs. Stairs. Ugh. (I've also been on a quest to increase my leg strength by doing squats, yesterday I got up to 45 - I do them by sliding up and down a wall, keeping my back straight and going far enough down that my thighs are parallel to the ground. It's kinda the weenie way, but I felt good when I could out-do my much thinner, fitter friend. This fluff covers a lot of muscle, apparently. But it has left me a little tired...)
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