Well,for the second time; I did keto once before, for three weeks. This is the end of the sixth week this time around, and things have gone much better. I'm not sure exactly how things will be moving forward, but I do intend to spend at least a few days off keto enjoying foods I've missed. Toast with butter, pasta, rice with beans, that sort of thing.
I start my formal triathlon training program soon; this coming Wednesday, to be precise. It involves two swims a week, and is twelve weeks long. That takes me into December. If I'm swimming at the local beach, that starts to get into some really cold water temperatures (as low as 43F, according to records). I started reading about people who swim in cold water; many of them do it without a wetsuit. I'm interested to see what it's about, but more so that I can keep swimming rather than for any benefit of cold swimming specifically. It would be interesting to be able to swim a mile in bitterly cold water with a wetsuit, and all the more so without. If the training goes as planned, I'll be swimming in open water every Wednesday and Friday for some time; I'll probably become somewhat acclimatized to the cold just by virtue of that.
A lot of cold swimmers seem to emphasize the importance of staying bundled up and warm until just before you start swimming, and getting warmed up as soon as possible immediately afterwards. It makes me think fondly about the possibility of van life and parking right close to the beach; imagine coming out of the cold water, straight into your home for a warm shower and then a warm bed and plenty of hot tea.
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