![]() ![]() ![]() Instead of worrying about my blotchy legs and non-mascaraed eyes it was suddenly only about how I ‘felt’ not how I looked. When I first found cold water swimming my initial thought was, what will people think of me in my costume, with no makeup, a swim hat and goggles?! But as time crept on and as my early morning swims brought solitude, peace and internal acceptance into my life I no longer thought about how I outwardly appeared to other people. Sadly, for many of us that are new to swimming, we feel conscious about how we look to other people in our swimsuits. Darkness conceals identity and decreases our inhibitions.As I pondered their safety concerns whilst I continued to swim in the cold black sea, I came to consider that alongside well documented safety risks there were in fact a wealth of therapeutic benefits to be gained from regular outdoor swimming in the dark. ![]() Over the years that I have been all year-round dawn swimming, I have found many people to openly express their valid fears about swimming outdoors in very little light. With fewer daylight hours at this time of year and with work or lifestyle commitments gradually impinging on our leisure time many of us will be forced to venture into our regular wild swimming spots with limited light and often very unforgiving weather. With winter well underway and the UK’s coldest swimming months (February and March) fast approaching, most of us are now faced with embracing the water at dawn or at dusk and totally in the dark. ![]()
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