A few years back, I heard a noise outside and opened my blinds to see a big Black Hawk-ish helicopter hovering at eye level right outside my 9th floor apartment window. It was so close, I could have shouted back and forth to the guy inside. Scared the crap out of me. (It ended up being a search and rescue copter looking for someone who fell into the Hudson on a booze cruise.)
Sure. I've swum in Lake Michigan, which is certainly colder than 68, and in some little lake in the mountains in Colorado, which was just plain frigid. But swimming laps was worse than I would have guessed, because the water seemed about 20 degrees colder when it was passing over my body (and into my ears).
I don't swim laps regularly- my lifeguard cert is long expired, and when I tried swimming recently I was shocked by how horrible I am now (I think my muscle / fat distribution has changed so I sink in the wrong places.) But anyway, I'd think that cooler temperatures would be better for exercise than for just bathing or playing in the water, since you're heating up. Is that not the case?
Or, to put it as a philisophical question- What is the smell of a sweating swimmer?
I suppose cold water would tend to make one streamlined in the wedding tackle area but I think the heat gain from exercise is dwarfed by the heat loss effect of current-chill.
I'd think that cooler temperatures would be better for exercise than for just bathing or playing in the water, since you're heating up.
Indeed. Recreational "swimmers" like the water to be somewhere between 82-86 degrees. Totally comfy for splashing around. People who are working out like it to be around 78, maybe even a little cooler if they're hardcore. But 68 is just too damn cold.
I remember once when I was still swimming having a couple of practices in a pool that was, because of various problems they were having with the heating, somewhere over 80 degrees. I was skinny and very often felt cold when I wasn't moving, but that was still way too hot. Even worse was the day the chlorine was messed up and the water was so white that we had to do the entire practice with kickboards in order to keep our heads out of the water.
Working out it a too-hot pool is actually kinda dangerous, because it's easy not to notice that you're overheating and dehydrating. The poor people who manage the pool where I swim are always caught in the middle of temperature requests from the more serious swimmers who want it chilly, and people who just like to paddle along. Luckily, there's also an indoor pool that they keep in the high 80's, where the kids and old folks swim.
Do you live next door to Dick Cheney?
Posted by SP | Link to this comment | 01- 9-06 12:20 PM
I've been to church with Donald Rumsfeld, and he only had a couple fo secret service guys around. It wasn't inconvenient at all.
Posted by Bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 01- 9-06 12:23 PM
I've been to church with Donald Rumsfeld
I thought services at the Necronomic Chapel were open only to initiates.
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 01- 9-06 12:29 PM
Did any of you hear that awesome TAL that included a story about some Afghani-American who was suspected of bad intent towards Rumsfeld's daughter?
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 01- 9-06 12:33 PM
A few years back, I heard a noise outside and opened my blinds to see a big Black Hawk-ish helicopter hovering at eye level right outside my 9th floor apartment window. It was so close, I could have shouted back and forth to the guy inside. Scared the crap out of me. (It ended up being a search and rescue copter looking for someone who fell into the Hudson on a booze cruise.)
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 01- 9-06 12:38 PM
I wouldn't suggest coming to Austin to swim in our Barton Springs (constant temperature of 68 degrees).
Posted by norbizness | Link to this comment | 01- 9-06 12:54 PM
I suffer from surfer's ear which is a narrowing of the ear canal due to repeated exposure to cold water.
Downside- I can't hear that well.
Upside- mp3s sound the same as cds.
Posted by Joe O | Link to this comment | 01- 9-06 1:18 PM
68 is balmy if you ever go in the ocean.
Posted by SP | Link to this comment | 01- 9-06 2:22 PM
Sure. I've swum in Lake Michigan, which is certainly colder than 68, and in some little lake in the mountains in Colorado, which was just plain frigid. But swimming laps was worse than I would have guessed, because the water seemed about 20 degrees colder when it was passing over my body (and into my ears).
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 9-06 2:30 PM
I don't swim laps regularly- my lifeguard cert is long expired, and when I tried swimming recently I was shocked by how horrible I am now (I think my muscle / fat distribution has changed so I sink in the wrong places.) But anyway, I'd think that cooler temperatures would be better for exercise than for just bathing or playing in the water, since you're heating up. Is that not the case?
Or, to put it as a philisophical question- What is the smell of a sweating swimmer?
Posted by SP | Link to this comment | 01- 9-06 2:53 PM
Cold water in my ears very quickly makes me light headed and dizzy.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 01- 9-06 2:54 PM
I suppose cold water would tend to make one streamlined in the wedding tackle area but I think the heat gain from exercise is dwarfed by the heat loss effect of current-chill.
Posted by Tripp | Link to this comment | 01- 9-06 3:04 PM
I'd think that cooler temperatures would be better for exercise than for just bathing or playing in the water, since you're heating up.
Indeed. Recreational "swimmers" like the water to be somewhere between 82-86 degrees. Totally comfy for splashing around. People who are working out like it to be around 78, maybe even a little cooler if they're hardcore. But 68 is just too damn cold.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 9-06 3:08 PM
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Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 9-06 3:20 PM
I remember once when I was still swimming having a couple of practices in a pool that was, because of various problems they were having with the heating, somewhere over 80 degrees. I was skinny and very often felt cold when I wasn't moving, but that was still way too hot. Even worse was the day the chlorine was messed up and the water was so white that we had to do the entire practice with kickboards in order to keep our heads out of the water.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 01- 9-06 5:59 PM
Working out it a too-hot pool is actually kinda dangerous, because it's easy not to notice that you're overheating and dehydrating. The poor people who manage the pool where I swim are always caught in the middle of temperature requests from the more serious swimmers who want it chilly, and people who just like to paddle along. Luckily, there's also an indoor pool that they keep in the high 80's, where the kids and old folks swim.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 9-06 6:07 PM
A drunk couple fell asleep in a hot top, and in the morning you could stick a fork in them.
I wanted to use that idiom when Korey Stringer died of heat exhaustion at training camp, but no -- bad taste or something.
I also wished that someone had used the "Di Dies" headline, but once again, no. Though some sicko sites are doing it.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 01- 9-06 6:28 PM
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Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 01- 9-06 6:28 PM