For him it's a job, for those below, it's a duty! So, are polar bear swims a healthy way to bring in the new year?
Syracuse.com has the answers: [
Link]
Chicago! Who is crazier, the girl wearing a Santa Claus hat in knee-deep water with snow on the beach or the hundreds of people coming out to a snowy beach to watch her?
Chicago Tribune.com gallery: [
Link]
Of course the Italians want to add a touch of class as to how one should engage the water for a Polar Bear Swim. This gentleman here is diving into the River Tiber somewhere in Rome! A gallery of other European swimmers can be found here at My
Sinchew: [
Link]
Boston maniacs storm the harbor! At least one had the sense to wear a furry gorilla suit to keep himself warm! From
Boston.com: [
Link]
The locals along the banks of the Kaskaskia River in Saint Louis, Missouri, make it look so simple. I for one did not spend my morning jumping into brown barely liquid, water this morning. From
Saint Louis Today: [
Link]
Sheesh, Only in Green Bay, Wisconsin, It must be the cheese! That is not weather, it is an emergency- An amazingly surreal gallery at
Green Bay Press Gazette: [
Link]
And craziest of all: These Ontario locals are definitely a couple clowns short of a circus! Don't believe me, look at the fireman-guy next to them in the deep-sea diving gear. From the CBC News: [Link]
And craziest of all: These Ontario locals are definitely a couple clowns short of a circus! Don't believe me, look at the fireman-guy next to them in the deep-sea diving gear. From the CBC News: [Link]
4 comments:
Those are pretty lame compared to this:
[url]http://www.ouka.fi/iceswim2006/images/kisat/images/IMG_1469.jpg[/url]
Yes, it's winter swimming, the event is 25m breast.
Awesome! This is the correct link for the inage:
http://www.ouka.fi/iceswim2006/images/kisat/images/IMG_1469.jpg
There are a lot of cold water swims out there--all of which make the chill of the Pacific seem pretty minor by comparison--one year I did the Penguin swim and the next day I was in Denver seeing pictures of people who had cut a hole in the ice to swim. Ouch--much more impressive than the Venice Penguin Swim sad to say. There was an Alcatraz swim on Jan. 2 this year, a cup race in Hyde Park in London on Christmas Day and all the swims you noticed. But the thing I really don't understand is trying to do a real pool swim race in freezing water. I've seen articles and web-pages about it and never undestood it.
For me, anything below 60-degrees without is off limits. The Penguin Swim is a respectable accomplishment in my opinion. As for racing in barely liquid water, I have no idea how someone can stay conscious in water like that.
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