We’re having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave (#SFWApro)

I bicycle or walk for a half-hour most days of the week. Normally I do it at lunch time, but when summer hits, it’s a little hot outside for that.
Last year I tried taking my exercise mid-morning, then cutting lunch to a half-hour. But that didn’t entirely work because I like a nice hour lunch. Even though I’m technically taking the same amount of time off, the two half-hour breaks didn’t add up to as much.
So last week I tried bicycling/walking thirty minutes in the morning, taking a full hour for lunch, then working 30 minutes late. I really liked that—okay, not the extra in the evening, but I was able to get a lot of overdue cleaning done at lunch. Theoretically I could do it after I knock off work, but somehow I’m never in the mood (I wouldn’t say I’m exactly in the mood at lunch, but it comes a lot easier).
But I went out for a walk around noon yesterday and dang it, breaking to go outside in the middle of the day is just so much more relaxing. Whether the day’s been going well or ill, the break is more refreshing for contrast.
So do I try going out in the mid-day heat (mad dogs and Englishmen and all that), well equipped with water? Or play it safe and go back to last week’s schedule? I suspect I’ll try keeping up the mid-day breaks as long as I can take the heat, then switch. Or maybe walk at mid-day and bicycle in the mornings—walking’s a lot less demanding, after all.
Another schedule problem is that in April my doctor ordered me to get more iron in my diet. Simple enough, except that a surprising number of things interfere with iron absorption, like tea and dairy products. So I’ve been postponing my breakfast cup of tea until later in the morning so I get the maximum benefits from an iron-rich breakfast and iron pill. Except that then I have to break off work, come down and make tea, which is inconvenient and distracting.
I can, of course, take my pill at lunch and schedule my big iron-rich meal then too. If what I eat for breakfast isn’t primarily for iron, then my tea shouldn’t matter.
It’s not much of an issue when I’m working on the time-travel book, as I can just carry my iPad down and watch while I make tea. But when I’ve got something that isn’t so convenient, I can see taking mid-morning tea becoming a pain (but not such a pain I won’t make it. It’s tea. I like tea).
First world problems, I know, but after all I live in the first world so what would you expect?