Now that we've had our first cold snap here in Austin, I wonder if anyone else has trouble getting up in the cold wee hours to make practice? Any good ways to trick yourself out of bed?
I keep an alarm clock in another room and often think of the answer I'd have to give when coach inevitably says, "So I didn't see you yesterday..." But sometimes, those things just aren't enough. I post this knowing we really don't have much to complain about in the way of cold weather, but I'm a native Texan and just have never liked being cold at all (cold being 55 degrees or so).
Rachael
trust me, it'll be easier to get my butt out of bed to head over to a brightly lit indoor pool than it would be to schlep over in low-to-mid 30 degree weather to swim outdoors at 5:30am in Arizona.
I've done my share of swimming in an outdoor pool in freezing weather. Once you get in it's fine. I guess you could say the same thing about an inside pool--once you get inside the building it's fine. However, if you've got to walk to the pool in sometimes sub-zero (Fahrenheit) weather I think that's worse than walking across a cold pool deck.
trust me, it'll be easier to get my butt out of bed to head over to a brightly lit indoor pool than it would be to schlep over in low-to-mid 30 degree weather to swim outdoors at 5:30am in Arizona.
I've done my share of swimming in an outdoor pool in freezing weather. Once you get in it's fine. I guess you could say the same thing about an inside pool--once you get inside the building it's fine. However, if you've got to walk to the pool in sometimes sub-zero (Fahrenheit) weather I think that's worse than walking across a cold pool deck.
