Last swim

Although it was cold today, with a bitter wind, the sun shone clear and bright, so I decided to take my last swim of the year in the lake. Fifteen degrees (57F) feels much, much colder than the eighteen (64F) of last week. My forehead pained me as I swam the crawl, my fingers tingled, my balls disappeared. I could only manage a couple of hundred metres before I decided to climb out, my skin pink and shiny through the cold.

So now I will put on the Winterspeck (?) for a few months and rely on cycling to keep me fittish until the season arrives again. Wish me well.

:-)