Hot! Hot! Hot!

North Carolina, where I live, is having a heat wave: highs this week have topped 100 a couple of times, with more promised. I walk in the mornings before work, and yesterday when I stepped outside at 5:45am, it was 80 degrees. I mean, that was the low temperature for the day. Plus it had rained a few hours before, so it was downright steamy out. One of those days when you feel a wall of stickiness when you walk outside.

Now I don't know about you, but I sweat. I don't glisten, or perspire in some sort of elegant, ladylike way. I sweat. By the time I got back from my 3 mile walk, I was soaked from head to toe. So what do I learn from days like this?

1. Walking early is the best solution. I'm lucky, because I'm a morning person. But even if I wasn't, there's no way I'd be walking at the end of the day when it's 90+ degrees out.

2. Tech fabrics are great. They don't keep you from sweating, but they do help the sweat evaporate more quickly, thus keeping you cooler.

3. You hear this a lot on hot day, but hydration is important. As much as I sweat, I can lose a lot of fluids on days like yesterday.