Out the other side.

I have made it through two winters swimming in the sea. To be fair they have not been hard winters. Strange thing though is that I have been finding it very cold over the last few weeks even though the water is a bit warmer and the temperature outside the water is warmer. I was talking to one of the swimmers who gave up in early December. He said that he had stayed in the water too long and the effects of hypothermia has set in. This had frightened him and he did not resume swimming. 

One of the swimmers says during the winter he is a teabag swimmer. He means by this that it is quick in and out. I think that is the way too go for me if I try get through the next winter.