My usual route is to head uphill for about a mile, circle around a nearby prep school campus, then come back either downhill the whole mile home or take a side route that has some downhill and some straight roads, too. Either way, my downhill is usually the jogging portion of my outside experience.
Thank goodness I remember to bring along a bandana because my face is dripping sweat. Well, it can't truly be sweat because my pace is nothing strenuous. I'm pacing around a seventeen-minute mile. Elderly and invalids are lapping me. The humidity, however, is enough to give me apoplexy.
Somehow when I started this jaunt, I thought it was a good idea. I should've walked straight past the train station, turned around, and come back. What was I thinking adding this long hill to my trek? Oh, yeah: it's my most often traveled route. It's my favorite route because the worst of it is over at the beginning, and this route has challenge to it. Today any walk is a challenge. With this heat and this humidity, walking to the street to take out the garbage is a challenge.
If you happen to drive anywhere near my house and you spot a puddle with a yellow bandana floating around in it, call my family. In true Wicked Witch fashion, I've melted.
