Why Running is THE BEST!

Right now I'm in the throws of my 5th (FIFTH) cold this winter season. The first three were manageable and didn't really affect my day to day life. These last two were and are vicious.

I was a bit shocked with how bad my health is this winter season. Usually, I would get one or no cold at all. This year is just horrible. And I've had it up to here with being sick after that whole surgery experience. Being sick sucks.

But then it dawned on me. I've spent more time in the gym during the last four months than I did in ten years prior. Combined. Now my workouts are in this closed-in space with lots of sweaty bodies. Bodies that don't always remember to wipe down machines after use. Bodies that wipe their nose and then grab onto that free weight. Bodies that grunt and sneeze, or carry that one tiny towel soaked in their sweat to wipe down the equipment they use. NOT HYGENIC!

I hate those bodies.

And what about those steam rooms and saunas??? Pits of nastiness are what they are.

Compare that to going out and running outside alone. NO GERMS! Or compare that to running in a group. Sometimes, just sometimes, you'll shake hello to a newcomer. But that's it. You are not in a confined space sweating together and touching each other's gross bodies by proxy.

Anyway, lesson learned. All those years of running might have given me monster quads (which have successfully disappeared during the recovery from surgery), but I sure didn't develop a strong immune system against sweaty human koodies.

Ok, I'm off to eat my chicken soup with star shaped pasta. Star shaped pasta??? My mood is already getting better.