It may seem strange after all my moaning about the cold but peer pressure does strange things to you. So it was that yesterday, after a day out on the snow mobiles, Phil (another of the English guys doing the marathon) and I went swimming in the arctic sea completely naked. Outside temperature at the time? about -20C. Probably not the wisest thing I have ever done. Having been exceedingly gung ho about this earlier in the week, various talk about the heart stopping from the shock and the need to know where the town hospital was severely stressing me out. But once Phil went in I had no choice. It was brief, it wasn’t pretty and it sure was the coldest and one of the most excruciating things I have ever done (my hair froze the moment I stepped out) , but I survived. BIG thank you to Katie, Susan, Jon, Nick and Nick who redressed me in a manner befitting a formula one pit stop team (believe me I was paralysed by the cold and unable to do anything for about 3 minutes from the shock – without them I would be in hospital now recoverig from hypothermia). Hopefully the video clip we got of it will persuade a few more people to pledge….i hope……pleeeeease…..after all, if it wasn’t for global warming, that sea would have been ice and such buffoonary would not have been possible!
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