Almost there!
Posted on September 4, 2008 | 1 Comment
This might seem a little soon to be announcing the first winter swim of 2008, but bear with me..
We were thinking about the 19th of October, 2008, 7pm. The reason? Well I met a lovely girl on the subway today and it reminded me of how this all started, and how many people I tried to “recruit” that said they were scared of freezing to death (this won’t happen) so didn’t want to try it.
Therefore if we start a wee bit earlier this year that excuse won’t be valid!
With that in mind and as I mentioned, the first swim will be at Cherry Beach [Google map it] (walk to the end of Cherry Street until you hit the lake) at 7pm on October the 23rd 2008. Be there with towels, a smile on your face and a hot drink if you fancy.
Footwear of some sort is recommended as the stones can be a little sharp!
Email me (Roo) or Shannon if you have any questions..
2005 Karim Diab Cold Water Immersion
Posted on June 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Recently some old photos of Karim Diab (described, perhaps inaccurately as a Russian David Blaine, in part due to doing a 48-day fast in a sealed chamber) were posted to EnglishRussia, showing him doing a one-hour immersion in the cold water of a hole in the ice of the Moscow River, while being monitored by scientists to examine the effects of the immersion. Apparently afterwards he was pretty out of it and unable to talk, although he did beat the world record. The “MNP” written on his forehead means “Peace”.
A Hole In The Ice Of The Lake
Posted on June 5, 2008 | 1 Comment
I can’t imagine anyone is a “regular reader” of this site, but speaking to the imaginary, if you are, you’ll notice that the site’s been completely redesigned and moved into a proper CMS. After a morning of CSS tweaking it feels ready to start posting to. You may notice the new ice swimming picture in the header — that’s courtesy of Mike Burden who would go swimming with his dad through a hole cut in the lake (the big spool is to keep snowmobiles from hitting the hole).
I don’t think it’s really cheating, but he admits that they cheated — they’d sit in the sauna for a while, and then jump into the lake for a minute or two, and then dash back into the sauna.
Returning Soon
Posted on June 5, 2008 | 3 Comments
I’m working on bringing this site back to life, both as a homepage for the Toronto Winter Swim Club, and as a blog about winter swimming and related activities in general. When you see posts above this one, you’ll know that we’re alive again!
More recent winter swimming pictures
Posted on December 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment
These were taken in the 2007/2008 winter season — much colder than the previous one — at Toronto’s Cherry Beach. Yes, it’s raining — it could barely be called wet snow. The temperature dropped right after this swim.
Winter Night Swimming
Posted on February 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment
I believe we did this swim late in the 2006/2007 winter season. My daughter came along as the server of hot chocolate and had a great time, asking to swim the next time.
