PICTURE of YOURSELF THREAD

NietzscheKeen

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YES that's precisely what I was thinking. MY POOL IS HOTTER! Jeesh LOL! Oh and the trees, all we have are Joshua Trees and scrub.
I got in the pool today and it was warm... it wasn't refreshing from the 105 heat index we've been having.... who wants to swim in a warm pool? If I wanted to do that I'd go to the hot springs.
 

GreatwhiteNorth

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I got in the pool today and it was warm... it wasn't refreshing from the 105 heat index we've been having.... who wants to swim in a warm pool? If I wanted to do that I'd go to the hot springs.
I don't have a pool - heck, there's water all around me. . . But it's currently 45.3 Deg F. You'd be very lucky to make it two hundred yards.
 

ClaytonBigsby

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I don't have a pool - heck, there's water all around me. . . But it's currently 45.3 Deg F. You'd be very lucky to make it two hundred yards.

Sounds good to me. After football practice I loved to get into 55 gallon drum filled with ice water to about 52 degrees. The first three or four minutes are a bitch, but after that it starts feeling pretty good, and after 20 minutes, you pop out feeling pretty good.
 

GreatwhiteNorth

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Sounds good to me. After football practice I loved to get into 55 gallon drum filled with ice water to about 52 degrees. The first three or four minutes are a bitch, but after that it starts feeling pretty good, and after 20 minutes, you pop out feeling pretty good.
You should try swimming in it.
It's exhilarating at first, then your extremities begin to seizing up.
Your core cools so rapidly doing a crawl stroke that things just quit working.
Been there - got lucky and survived. ;-)
 

ClaytonBigsby

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You should try swimming in it.
It's exhilarating at first, then your extremities begin to seizing up.
Your core cools so rapidly doing a crawl stroke that things just quit working.
Been there - got lucky and survived. ;-)

Fo shizzle! Huge difference between having to swim in it, and enjoying a nice cold sit in a 55 gallon drum. Just sitting in the drum shows you how impossible it would be to last long in anything bigger than the drum.
 

cannabineer

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I got in the pool today and it was warm... it wasn't refreshing from the 105 heat index we've been having.... who wants to swim in a warm pool? If I wanted to do that I'd go to the hot springs.
I'm one of those idiots who's happy as an oyster in horseradish when the pool temp is just into the triples. cn
 

GreatwhiteNorth

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Fo shizzle! Huge difference between having to swim in it, and enjoying a nice cold sit in a 55 gallon drum. Just sitting in the drum shows you how impossible it would be to last long in anything bigger than the drum.
I've got a picture around here somewhere of me swimming around a Bering iceberg in my skivvies with the ship nosed up into the big berg.
Then holding a piece of it above my head while swimming.
I'll keep looking, but that was an Ice cream headache day for sure.
 
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