That's brisk, baby! (Week 11)
"Nothing burns like the cold, but only for a while." I don't even watch Game of Thrones (yet) but I know what George R. Martin is talking about with this cold thing. It's what I discovered in my week spent only in cold showers...and in a cold ocean. It burns for a while, but then you discover something deeper than mere pain. The idea–or maybe challenge–was suggested to me by my buddy Jon, who even presented me with the research and logic behind the Benefits of Cold Showers . So I resolved to take only cold showers every day for 7 days, and cap it off on Sunday by joining the Swim-A-Month-Club for their monthly swim in The Gorge, the ocean-fed waterway just off Victoria's Inner Harbour. All this in the month of March, after the coldest February the city has seen in 83 years. Well. Here's my anything-but-earth-shattering discovery. Cold water hurts. And yeah, it kinda sucks too. I decided to sneak up on the plan, starting Monday with the shower set at...