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
Parents
Former Member
Exactly how cold is the air temperature inside that indoor pool in Calgary? I'm in Calgary/Alberta once or twice a year as my wife's family all lives there. I'll be there in December and 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. Like hoffam, we do have days when the blocks/deck freeze over.
True. Once you actually get there, it's probably a lot easier than swimming outdoors with the air temps at freezing point. The hardest parts are putting on all those clothes for -25º C, chiselling the frost off the car windows (or trudging down the hill to the train station), stuffing all those clothes into the usually undersized lockers, and fingertip cracks. Have to slather on the hand lotion as soon as possible afterwards or go through the rest of the week with painful cracks and splits in the fingertips. Apparently the air here is dryer than the Sahara on the coldest winter days.
Exactly how cold is the air temperature inside that indoor pool in Calgary? I'm in Calgary/Alberta once or twice a year as my wife's family all lives there. I'll be there in December and 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. Like hoffam, we do have days when the blocks/deck freeze over.
True. Once you actually get there, it's probably a lot easier than swimming outdoors with the air temps at freezing point. The hardest parts are putting on all those clothes for -25º C, chiselling the frost off the car windows (or trudging down the hill to the train station), stuffing all those clothes into the usually undersized lockers, and fingertip cracks. Have to slather on the hand lotion as soon as possible afterwards or go through the rest of the week with painful cracks and splits in the fingertips. Apparently the air here is dryer than the Sahara on the coldest winter days.
