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Swimming in the Winter

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Geoff Talbot
Sep 08, 2021
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Recently, I started taking cold dips in the New Zealand ocean.

It’s winter and the water is cold.

Freeze the balls off a brass monkey kind of cold.

When I first stepped into the ocean I thought it was some kind of sadistic joke. I could hardly breath; everything in me wanted to run out of the water…

But i chose to remain…

I reminded myself that I could do ha…

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