Around a decade ago I wrote a very simple introduction to cold-hardening for bare-skin winter swimming and regularly updated it before I went and had a stroke. Now that I seem to have recovered my grammar and my (cough, splutter) literary faculties I hope to expand the scope of the original. I didn’t take any notice of “received wisdom” because so-called “sports science” doesn’t cover lengthy immersion in sub-10C water. It’s probably down to ‘Elf’n’safety not allowing test subjects to be subject such conditions, so a lot of the information I give is own research, using myself as a guinea pig. Here’s the current version:
This is the PDF version, if needed I should be able to find the rich text version.
Wildswimmer Pete, the diary of a cyborg wild swimmer. 