After your feet go numb, what is the next sign of hypothermia? I need to know what to look for. My feet go numb first. After one or two fingers go numb, i decide it's time to get out. What signs do you look for that tell you it's DEFINITELY time to get out? btw even when just the feet have gone numb, i make sure i'm no more than about 100 meters from shore.
Parents
Former Member
I used to have a policy,- Don't train in water under 60 degrees F.
I moved to a town in northern Quebec where the only place to start training was after the ice came out of the River Bostanais near the Town of La Tuque in late April. We would start training as soon as ice came out of the river. The snow was still on the banks. We would swim up river for 2 and a half miles to the waterfall. We made sure we swam as much as we could out of the current up river. Then we would swim back taking advantage of the current. Every once and a while the pulp logs would come down the river, now that was a danger. The loggers pilled the logs on the river ice and when the ice melted down would come the logs.
There was a little lake in the center of our town Lac St.Louis we used to get in there and swim as soon as the ice came out la little ater then in the river. We would swim there and have to actually break the light skin of ice that formed over the lake over the lake on a cold night. We had to be ready to swim our first marathon races of the summer season and they started the first week in July.
Cold water swimming is not enjoyable.
I used to have a policy,- Don't train in water under 60 degrees F.
I moved to a town in northern Quebec where the only place to start training was after the ice came out of the River Bostanais near the Town of La Tuque in late April. We would start training as soon as ice came out of the river. The snow was still on the banks. We would swim up river for 2 and a half miles to the waterfall. We made sure we swam as much as we could out of the current up river. Then we would swim back taking advantage of the current. Every once and a while the pulp logs would come down the river, now that was a danger. The loggers pilled the logs on the river ice and when the ice melted down would come the logs.
There was a little lake in the center of our town Lac St.Louis we used to get in there and swim as soon as the ice came out la little ater then in the river. We would swim there and have to actually break the light skin of ice that formed over the lake over the lake on a cold night. We had to be ready to swim our first marathon races of the summer season and they started the first week in July.
Cold water swimming is not enjoyable.
