Have you ever gone swimming in winter?

Atone stage in my life i went swimming many mornings in a Council pool that was heated in winter.
However this was many years ago, so my answer would have to be NO.

However next week I am starting to help a friend who needs exercise and will not go alone! Even though it is spring, it will still be cold.
I have a friend in sydney who goes most days of the year - Brrrr in the ocean too, and not a heated pool!

by Finy

Yes when we lived in the 60's at Coogee, I would go to the beach nearly every single day...but I was a kid back then.
LOVED it :)

by jonaja

We go swimming every second day no matter what the season. It is beautiful and warm in the swimming pool and there are heaters everywhere, including in the change rooms. We don't swim outdoors, always in an indoor swimming pool. If you are inside exercising, you SHOULD e warm. We get very warm when we do water aerobics, and our body heat tends to heat the water around us. All the passageways are heated, so there is no chance of getting cold

by Lluxi

ooops . . meant to place it here. No, Lluxi, she passed away recently. :(

Oh my !!! I didn't realise she was terminally ill.

Neither did she and it was certainly a shock to all. However, she had suffered chronic illness her whole life so perhaps we could just say her rubber band broke.

RIP Jules.

Lluxi, I've only swam, paddled, in Hawaii, some other much smaller island of Hawaii, Guam, Fiji, Bora Bora, & Isle Of Pines. We're going on another south pacific cruise in February, so I'll try & get into the water again then! Last time on the Isle of Pines, I only got wet up to my ankles, this (next) time I'd like a bus tour around the island.

Marbles. Yep. got 'em all. (Our darling Jules couldn't swim either, so I was in good company.)

by Rice

Haven't seen Jules online for a while. Is she ok?

No, Lluxi, she passed away recently. :(

I am sad to hear that Jules passed away. My sympathy to those that miss her.x

Ummm, thanks for that, Rice! Now I'll probably never get wet in the ocean again!

Sorry miro_ . . . . . ^_^ (teehee)

Yes but not often

by AJ

NO, & I don't even go swimming in summer, even though I can swim! I don't even use the swimming poo,s on the cruise ships, because I can't be bothered getting wet! I will get wet on a south pacific beach though, if on a south pacific cruise.

by Miro

Yes. We went swimming in the South Pacific. It was lovely

pools, NOT poos!

I don't know, miro_ . . . . . those norovirus outbreaks have to start somewhere . . Hahahahahahahahaha.

In my younger days, all the time but nowadays it's too much hassle even thinking about going to the pool let alone the beach.

by helga

I have not done so for several years but I did a lot when I was younger. I loved swimming and if there was clean water that was swimmable I would swim no matter the weather. I swam in very cold water in New Zealand and got hyperthermia. I was shivering all day and was cold to touch. That was probably the last time I swam in the cold come to think of it.

by annfi

Hypothermia

Thanks Lluxi. I meant to check before I posted answer but I had just heard about Jules and was feeling too many feelings at once.

Thanks to your mistake I learned a new word. Google is my friend :-)))

I have in the past.. but the older I get the more I dislike being cold!

by BritishStorm

Yes, I grew up with a pool and we used to swim in winter all the time. Mum hated it

by Belinda

No I haven't, & I never will! I don't even bother swimming in summer! In the summer I will stand in water, at a beach, but only while on a cruise, as those beaches don't have big waves.

by Miro