Cold and Exercise

I got a cold last week! I do not remember when I felt that bad last time...  The modern medicine does wonders, so today after taking decongestants and pain killers I felt much better. I had enough energy and wanted to exercise. Of course the gym or yoga is out of the question as I would infect the others and who knows how I would feel afterwards anyway.  It is too cold for a run, but the day is so nice sunny and clear with no wind... I decided to go for a power walk in the woods, a 50 mins walk on the old dog loop. It is really sad not to be able to walk this loop with the dogs anymore. They got a bit too slow for such a long walk. It is only 2.5 miles, but with hills and rough terrain they would take more than an hour or longer to do it and then spent the next few days on their couch... But maybe one day we need to try it.  I went alone, but took my Garmin and iPhone. The woods were great and really quiet for Sunday morning. The only sounds were given by the ice on the lake... Great sounds of expanding, contracting and cracking of the ice. Typically we have a lot of snow on the lake in January. But there is no snow this year, so the ice is all clearly visible and one can see different shades of ice across the lake, the history of the ice forming. We'll have a few cold days now, so the ice will get thicker.... I guess not for too long as the temperatures are swinging up and down this season and after a few days of cold we will get the warm days again.  The sun sets after 5pm now and the dark winter days are almost over! Tom is climbing in the gym today, but I can't wait till the first climbing day in Rumney! It will be here soon.