I HATE jumping into a cold pool; sure, call me a whimp, but anyway ... Does anyone have suggestions to combat this? I seem to recall that English Channel swimmers used to coat themselves with something (Vaseline?) to protect themselves from the extreme conditions of the channel. Is there a strategy that someone could share with me? Do body suits help?
Thanks for the advice. You can email me direct with an answer if you want at PeoriaBums@aol.com.
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Hi Jean!
Yea, at our pool they ended up closing one of the access ramps to the pool deck (from the parking lot) because it's a temporary metal railing access ramp, and the footinng was frosted, so it was too slippery to walk on.
Our pool doesn't get covered overnight. But yea, the mini steam tornadoes do lift from the pool. It's fun to watch them while doing the backstroke. Sometimes, if they don't move around too much, you can even use them to line youeself up. They remind me of the little bigger 'dust devil' tornados that I saw in Arizona (and one that almost sandblasted my car...)
Sunrises are just gorgeous!
The deck, well, I figured out how to hop out of my ugg boots, onto the kickboard and into the water in couple of quick leaps, so I don't have to walk on the deck barefoot much :D
Thankfully, our complex has a jacuzzy, so sometimes we make a mad dash to the far end of the 50M pool past the diving well, into the jacuzzi. Other days, running some 60-70 meters on a cold deck just doesn't seem worth the jacuzzi dip.
And, huh, the office and the restrooms are under construction (delays) right now, so no warm place to dry off, shower and change.
If we took the construction superintendent, dress him in speedo's, soaked him wet and made him run around the deck barefoot for an hour in 40 degree weather, and then sent him driving home soaking wet... I wonder if that would help the construction delays any??? ;)
Or maybe that woud fall under the cruel and unusual punishment clause?
Hi Jean!
Yea, at our pool they ended up closing one of the access ramps to the pool deck (from the parking lot) because it's a temporary metal railing access ramp, and the footinng was frosted, so it was too slippery to walk on.
Our pool doesn't get covered overnight. But yea, the mini steam tornadoes do lift from the pool. It's fun to watch them while doing the backstroke. Sometimes, if they don't move around too much, you can even use them to line youeself up. They remind me of the little bigger 'dust devil' tornados that I saw in Arizona (and one that almost sandblasted my car...)
Sunrises are just gorgeous!
The deck, well, I figured out how to hop out of my ugg boots, onto the kickboard and into the water in couple of quick leaps, so I don't have to walk on the deck barefoot much :D
Thankfully, our complex has a jacuzzy, so sometimes we make a mad dash to the far end of the 50M pool past the diving well, into the jacuzzi. Other days, running some 60-70 meters on a cold deck just doesn't seem worth the jacuzzi dip.
And, huh, the office and the restrooms are under construction (delays) right now, so no warm place to dry off, shower and change.
If we took the construction superintendent, dress him in speedo's, soaked him wet and made him run around the deck barefoot for an hour in 40 degree weather, and then sent him driving home soaking wet... I wonder if that would help the construction delays any??? ;)
Or maybe that woud fall under the cruel and unusual punishment clause?
