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Anyone going for a New Years swim in the sea tomorrow?
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tiacat
31-12-2016
Originally Posted by bri160356:
“...is it any good if you’re not depressed though? ”

I do suffer with depression so I can use this as a reason to go.

I always got a bit of a high as I said when I was going before and it was very different from going in an indoor pool. I dont think I can use an indoor pool anymore having experienced the sea properly (albeit in a pool)

I went June to October this year and had really hoped to do it throughout the year but it got too dark after work to go, theres no lights down there.
Rhumbatugger
31-12-2016
Originally Posted by bri160356:
“...is it any good if you’re not depressed though? ”

Of course

I saw a programme where a doctor actually 'prescribed' it for one lady who was depressed, which is why I mentioned that.


And if it works for depression then it makes everyone else just feel BETTER.

Takes a bit of discipline to do it though, I would think.
Rhumbatugger
31-12-2016
Originally Posted by tiacat:
“I do suffer with depression so I can use this as a reason to go.

I always got a bit of a high as I said when I was going before and it was very different from going in an indoor pool. I dont think I can use an indoor pool anymore having experienced the sea properly (albeit in a pool)

I went June to October this year and had really hoped to do it throughout the year but it got too dark after work to go, theres no lights down there.”

Our Lido is only open May to October, although there are pools on the shore, but as you say, very dark, and not much chance to do it if you work full time.
tiacat
31-12-2016
Originally Posted by anne_666:
“To swim in? Anything else you might have forgotten?
You are one crazy brave girl and good luck.

Edit ... I see you've remembered.

Near where I live there's an older bloke who swims every day between the piers. He's charmingly mad as a hatter though.”

Originally Posted by Rhumbatugger:
“Enjoy the shocking ole thrill of it Tiacat.


There's a group of old ladies that swim EVERY day near me, including through the winter.


Cold water swimming is apparantly very good for depression. The cold and effort gives you an adrenaline rush and you feel really alive. Then when you're out and warm you feel euphoric.

I'm going to start doing it from May when my local lido opens. Not doing it until then though.”

Whereabouts in the country are you two?
Rhumbatugger
31-12-2016
Originally Posted by tiacat:
“Whereabouts in the country are you two?”

South West coast.
tiacat
31-12-2016
Do you have to pay for your lido?


I know there is one further up the coast at Faversham but you have to pay and it sonly open in the summer but I think its heated a bit.
razorback Tony
31-12-2016
Originally Posted by tiacat:
“Do you have to pay for your lido?


I know there is one further up the coast at Faversham but you have to pay and it sonly open in the summer but I think its heated a bit.”

On the assumption that by South West Coast, they mean e.g. Brixham, Devon, that's got to be 200 miles give or take, so it'd be a bit more than further up the coast!
tiacat
31-12-2016
Originally Posted by razorback Tony:
“On the assumption that by South West Coast, they mean e.g. Brixham, Devon, that's got to be 200 miles give or take, so it'd be a bit more than further up the coast!”

Im talking about further up the coast from me.
foonk
31-12-2016
No way.

I went in the sea off the Kerry coast once.

It was midsummer, and the sea - or, to be more accurate, - Atlantic Ocean, was supposedly warmed by the Gulf Stream. Nope!

Absolutely freezing and not something I have had any desire to repeat.
Croctacus
31-12-2016
One of my sons had a dip along the coast at Westgate on Boxing day a couple of years ago.

That was to win a ten pound bet though and not for any health benefits. It took him several hours for his legs to change back to pink from blue.
anne_666
31-12-2016
Originally Posted by tiacat:
“Whereabouts in the country are you two?”

I'm near the coast in the NE. In the winter the lovely man I mentioned rides down to the beach on his bike. He lights a fire on the beach next to the pier wall before he goes for his swim then gets dried next to it and has a cuppa and sandwiches. It's quite a ritual.
tiacat
31-12-2016
Originally Posted by anne_666:
“I'm near the coast in the NE. In the winter the lovely man I mentioned rides down to the beach on his bike. He lights a fire on the beach next to the pier wall before he goes for his swim then gets dried next to it and has a cuppa and sandwiches. It's quite a ritual.”

NE!!

On the twitter page for our pool, someone posted a little film of a man swimming in freezing fog somewhere up north the other day, Proper swimming he was doing, with head under water and everything.
tiacat
31-12-2016
Originally Posted by Croctacus:
“One of my sons had a dip along the coast at Westgate on Boxing day a couple of years ago.

That was to win a ten pound bet though and not for any health benefits. It took him several hours for his legs to change back to pink from blue.”

Did he enjoy it though?
Croctacus
31-12-2016
Originally Posted by tiacat:
“Did he enjoy it though?”

He did, but not enough to want to repeat it outside of the summer months.
tenofspades
31-12-2016
Originally Posted by sodavlac:
“Be honest, you weren't going to do it even if you didn't have a cold. I know I'm not! ”

yeah probably wouldn't
Rhumbatugger
31-12-2016
Originally Posted by tiacat:
“Do you have to pay for your lido?


I know there is one further up the coast at Faversham but you have to pay and it sonly open in the summer but I think its heated a bit.”

I think the Faversham one is a heated outdoor pool. At least it was when I went in it about five thousand years ago.

My Lido charges, but you can get an all summer season ticket for forty quid, which isn't bad.

And the old pools in the rocks are free, so I'll have a look.

The old ladies swim in the actual sea off a small beach a bit round the coast. But you have to go at the right time, high tide, and that can make it a bit difficult.
Miss XYZ
31-12-2016
Hell, no! New Year's Day is bad enough as it is, why would I make it worse by getting in the freezing cold sea!

Well done OP for giving it a go though - make sure you come back and update this thread tomorrow after you've thawed out!
tiacat
31-12-2016
We're going to have breakfast beforehand and then take flasks of tea with us.

I dont know what to do about getting changed, we normally dont and just drive home wet and change in the hallway, but driving home in freezing weather in wet swim stuff, I dont know
CollieWobbles
31-12-2016
Originally Posted by tiacat:
“All these posts are putting me right off. What sort of 'ill' were they?”

Hypothermic sort of ill, it's really fortunate that several of them had gone together, I think if one had been on their own they would have got into serious trouble. One of my friends who'd gone (and tried to persuade me to go with them - no chance!) when they returned to school said they had never felt so bad, they'd been up all night screaming in pain and so had many of the others. It was such a stupid foolish thing to do, especially as that part of the river was notoriously deep and dangerous. You couldn't even lower yourself in gradually to adjust as the river is below high rocks both sides, the only way in is to jump. I lost my dog's frisbee in a much shallower river back in the summer, I waded in to fetch it as it wasn't far , and even then the water was unbearably freezing cold and I was in pain when I got out , I can only imagine what it would have been like to be completely submerged in it in the depths of January.
Auntie Climax
31-12-2016
Originally Posted by CollieWobbles:
“Hypothermic sort of ill, it's really fortunate that several of them had gone together, I think if one had been on their own they would have got into serious trouble. One of my friends who'd gone (and tried to persuade me to go with them - no chance!) when they returned to school said they had never felt so bad, they'd been up all night screaming in pain and so had many of the others. It was such a stupid foolish thing to do, especially as that part of the river was notoriously deep and dangerous. You couldn't even lower yourself in gradually to adjust as the river is below high rocks both sides, the only way in is to jump. I lost my dog's frisbee in a much shallower river back in the summer, I waded in to fetch it as it wasn't far , and even then the water was unbearably freezing cold and I was in pain when I got out , I can only imagine what it would have been like to be completely submerged in it in the depths of January.”

I hurt just reading this!
mounty
31-12-2016
Only if it's suddenly 25C and sunny
Tissy
31-12-2016
I'm going to watch them in saundersfoot

Over 1500 entered last year !

http://www.itv.com/news/wales/2016-0...ears-day-swim/
Welsh-lad
31-12-2016
Originally Posted by bri160356:
“Good luck, but take care;…and I have to say I admire your bravery.

“If you're not used to the cold, a common response is to be initially shocked and fight for breath, says Mark Harper, an anaesthetist who swims in the sea off Brighton. It is this struggling for breath that usually causes people to drown, not hypothermia. "Essentially a couple of litres of water in their lungs, that's what kills people. Waves and not being able to hold your breath." It's why sea swimming can be more dangerous than having a dip somewhere like the Serpentine.”
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Yeah but surely that only happens if you fully immerse very suddenly i.e you gasp from the cold, take in water and drown.

Most people will be prancing in the shallows.
Smithy1204
01-01-2017
Edited.
tiacat
01-01-2017
Dear god, I can now report back on my travails this morning.

I didnt think I was going to do it, I was still in bed at 9.30 and really tired and low and didnt want to go anywhere, just back to sleep. However OH was being hyper about it, so I just got my swimming stuff on and went.

I cant really explain the coldness of the water without using expletives. I queued up on the wall letting other people go first because even in warm weather it takes me ages to get in, I hang on to the ladder for ages, however today there was no chance to do that because otherwise you block up the ladder for people wanting (and needing) to get out so I had to get in quicker than I normally do.

I then hung on to the side of the ladder wondering what on earth was going on with my head and realised after that I was hyperventilating, I just couldnt control my breathing, I heard this also happening to someone else and the advice to her was to try to breath out (your body keeps gasping). I then got lightheaded and I thought I was going to be sick with all these people around me.

OH got in and seemed ok but he was in a wet suit. I was trying to kick my legs out to warm them out but it was stinging too much so I just clung onto the ladder rather than swimming but I was fully submerged.

And to answer a query above, no most people werent paddling in the shallows, unfortunately the way the pool is, its not comfortable to walk in from the beach, too rocky and slippery. A few people do but most people go in via the ladders.

There were plenty of people jumping in, I just dont know how they did it.

Anyway, my breath calmed down and I decided that I'd done my bit so got out. I thought my legs were going to give way walking back to our stuff. And because it was so busy we had to park up on the cliff and our bodies were stinging walking back in the air.

Someone said that the Telegraph is going to be there today. There were lots of people taking pictures, mainly people on the promenade all dressed up properly for winter.

However, Im thinking about doing it again tomorrow!

This was in the Telegraph yesterday about the pool and the benefits of cold water swimming

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/wellbeing...ge-sea-should/
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