It was pretty hot when I stopped at a park to do 3 miles on my way home tonight. But because of my lack of exercise this week, I knew I needed to get outside and move. And we all know how it goes — if we don’t exercise early, we get distracted and don’t do it at all.

The only good thing about exercising in the heat is, I don’t have to worry about my speed — I know I won’t be fast so there is no stress when I’m not fast.

So I took it easy and kept my pace at a 15-minute mile. (It was not hard to walk that slow.)

It felt good to move the muscles — I worked a lot of the stiffness out. And in an odd way, it even felt good to sweat!

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