No idea why I thought of this but I would be interested to hear some thoughts from people who know how to swim. I am not one of them.
Then I went into the ocean and got schooled by a bunch of fish.
At Christmas time, many people who would never consider getting in cold water will be thinking of a Christmas Eve, Christmas Day or New Year's Day dip.
If you are wondering WHY you might or should do it, apart from: * Taking part in a local tradition in many places;
- Having a hot punch at the coast;
- Supporting a local charity;
- The great craic of meeting lots of people having similar fun;
- Doing something that will add more zest and flavour to your Christmas dinner than anything else...
A cold water dip results in a positive physical sense of well-being that occurs when warm blood displaces cold blood, and the sensation never lessens with repetition, unlike pretty much everything else in life, and the reason many of us are called "addicts to cold".
PREPARE and OBSERVE
- If swimming by yourself, make sure you inform someone where and when and have an observer.
- Preferably stick to organised swims.
- Your most important pre-swim action to make sure you know where to exit the water safely.
- If you have been drinking alcohol the night before, please don't swim. Never swim after drinking alcohol the same day.
- If you are planning more than one or two minute dip, then bring plenty of warm clothes for afterwards.
BEFORE THE SWIM
- Put some money in the charity collection. Christmas is shit for many people. Those of us fortunate to have this luxury might remember this. *Do NOT stand around talking once you are changed into your swimsuit, allowing your temperature to drop. Get the water.
- It's NORMAL to be NERVOUS of Cold Water. Increased heart rate is common.
- Wear sandals as close to the water's edge as possible.
- DO NOT DIVE IN. Expert swimmers actually enter more slowly. Just don't do it. I don't care how tough you think you are. Unless you are a very experienced cold water swimmer this is a dumb thing to do.
- SPLASH WATER on your face before immersion to allow your breathing to slow.
- It's not a competition. Stay clear and watch everything. * Depending on your location there may be lots of people who don't know what they are doing in the water that day.
- Just as you get in ... tell yourself it's warm. It doesn't matter if you hear the sucking sound of body parts rapidly shrinking inwards. Cold water swimming is partially about mental attitude. Tell yourself it's actually better than you thought: "Hell, it's almost warm. I was worried about this"?
DURING THE SWIM
- Stay Calm. You can float at the start top al
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Okay so I love about 45 minutes away from my rural hospital where I drop off my semen sample. Called ahead and they told me that its only good for 1hr and that I have to keep it as close to body temp as possible.
I have my wife take my kids outside so I can find peace in my small house, I do my thing (not my ideal batin' situation, tbh) narrowly succeed in getting it in the tiny sample container I was provided with, dash tuck it in my breast pocket, and dash to my car and drive the 45 minutes to the lab.
Tell the person I have a semen sample to be tested, she has me take it out of my pocket, place it in this no where near body temperature basket and then I start filling out a form.
Three minutes later my cum is still sitting in a cup in this basket when a lab employee walks by and says, "why the hell is this sample sitting in this basket and not in this man's hand? Semen samples are supposed to be kept on body and then tested immediately!". I felt like I wasted my afternoon.
Ten minutes later I'm driving back home on highway (it's now exactly 1 hour since I "collected my sample") I get a call from the lab. A man asks me "Sir, when exactly did you collect your sample?" I tell him one hour ago. He then says, "Oh. You realize the sample is only good for an hour, right? I guess we'll just have to test it right now"... I think, are you fucking kidding me, guy?
Three days later I get a call telling me I still have a small amount of sperm and that I should retest in another month... Fuck me
