Birthday Suit
Since my Hamstring pull yesterday, I’ve gone through feelings of shock, anger, sorrow and despair. I can’t believe I hurt it and can’t run. I am leaving on a business trip this evening for a convention in for Las Vegas and the only thing that was going to get me through it was the ability to take a nice run in the desert. Now I am contemplating not packing any running clothes at all to prevent me from attempting a run before it is healed.
To compensate for the inability to run (or probably bike for that matter) today, I decided to join my Cibbows friends for a swim in Brighton Beach. I figured going for a swim at the beach was better than moping around the house moaning about my injured leg. It was also time I broke out my Orca P-Flex wetsuit for its first official test drive.
I made arrangements to get to beach with Cristian, who was also driving Jonathan and Sondra. The four of us met up with 8 other hardy ocean goers for a swim on a beautifully clear and mild day. During the drive, I made mention that today was my birthday. Sondra got everyone to sing me Happy Birthday while we all stood together for a picture.
Even with my wetsuit, I wasn’t sure I wanted to go into the water. My tolerance to cold has been non-existent and I wasn’t sure I felt like suffering through a frigid swim. I have to hand it to my Orca P-Flex though. The thing kept me nice a toasty warm. The worst part of swimming in very cold water is the shock and pain of the cold about my face. I knew if I could force my way through it though, I would quickly get used to it and not feel it at all. This is indeed what happened and I wound up swimming further than I thought I would in 55 degree water.
The water itself, although cold, was very clean. You could see the bottom through at least 15 – 20 feet of depth. Crabs, fish and horseshoe crabs were all visible as you swam. Sondra plucked a horseshoe crab out of the water and showed it to everyone back on shore.
Once the swim was over, the non-wetsuit wearing bunch sat huddle in a semi-circle shivering, which reinforces the nickname of the group – “The Shivering Idiots”. I guess the feeling is you have to be an idiot to swim in such cold water. I wish I had some of that cold right now, as the jetBlue terminal where I am finishing this entry is blazingly hot.
To compensate for the inability to run (or probably bike for that matter) today, I decided to join my Cibbows friends for a swim in Brighton Beach. I figured going for a swim at the beach was better than moping around the house moaning about my injured leg. It was also time I broke out my Orca P-Flex wetsuit for its first official test drive.
I made arrangements to get to beach with Cristian, who was also driving Jonathan and Sondra. The four of us met up with 8 other hardy ocean goers for a swim on a beautifully clear and mild day. During the drive, I made mention that today was my birthday. Sondra got everyone to sing me Happy Birthday while we all stood together for a picture.Even with my wetsuit, I wasn’t sure I wanted to go into the water. My tolerance to cold has been non-existent and I wasn’t sure I felt like suffering through a frigid swim. I have to hand it to my Orca P-Flex though. The thing kept me nice a toasty warm. The worst part of swimming in very cold water is the shock and pain of the cold about my face. I knew if I could force my way through it though, I would quickly get used to it and not feel it at all. This is indeed what happened and I wound up swimming further than I thought I would in 55 degree water.
The water itself, although cold, was very clean. You could see the bottom through at least 15 – 20 feet of depth. Crabs, fish and horseshoe crabs were all visible as you swam. Sondra plucked a horseshoe crab out of the water and showed it to everyone back on shore.Once the swim was over, the non-wetsuit wearing bunch sat huddle in a semi-circle shivering, which reinforces the nickname of the group – “The Shivering Idiots”. I guess the feeling is you have to be an idiot to swim in such cold water. I wish I had some of that cold right now, as the jetBlue terminal where I am finishing this entry is blazingly hot.
posted by Rebel at 8:44 PM
1 Comments:
I'm going to have to check out brighton beach; sounds like a nice place to spend a Saturday.
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