New Years Day. Normal enough. I woke up. Had breakfast. No hangover to deal with. I don't drink. I took my Brides noon Pilates class. What better way to ring in the New Year?? Ohh, I know a better way!!! Jump in an Angry, Frigid Lake Erie.. Yep. Thats what I did.
Check out said Angry Lake. Snow was falling. Very gray and very bleak. Why did I do a solo plunge??? The Cleveland Triathlon Clubs dunk in the Lake was at the same time as my Brides Pilates Class. Since I have yet to perfect the art of being in two places at the same time, and frankly I wanted to support her as she begins a new venture, I had to drag the Bride to the Lake to chronicle the dubious dunking after the Pilates class.
Like the swim trunks. I could have worn a wild bright tropical suit, this blue one or a speedo. J.T. in a speedo is not a pretty sight. Stripped off the sweatsuit and shoes and wasted no time at all. Waves were crashing. Wind was fierce. Heard Gordon Lightfoots song about the Edmund Fitzgerald as the wind and the cold taunted me.
The Bride was all bundled up and a good sport. She fired away with the Canon. I got knocked down and dunked by the waves and all the rocks that made footing treacherous
You have no idea how fast I was running in this shot. Wow. Every fiber of my body was saying "THIS IS BEING ALIVE". The Bride thought' THIS IS BEING STUPID".She just smirked and questioned my sanity. The Bride also made the suggestion of the year. "why not bring your thick bathrobe, you know, like the Russians"?. Like the Russians???? Ohh yeah. Then I kept thinking of Yeltsin or Putin or Gorbachev, all sipping Vodka and sneering as me.
Yeltsin, Putin and Gorbachev
"You are soft American.Water is not cold. You ever been to Siberia"?
Whewww!!! Just being able to throw on the bathrobe, throw on shoes ,snap the final photo and hightail it back home was all I could take... Hey, and to my CTC friends, many of whom I have never had the chance to meet, hope your Plunge was awesome!!!!!! I was with you in spirit and in goosebumps.
Like the swim trunks. I could have worn a wild bright tropical suit, this blue one or a speedo. J.T. in a speedo is not a pretty sight. Stripped off the sweatsuit and shoes and wasted no time at all. Waves were crashing. Wind was fierce. Heard Gordon Lightfoots song about the Edmund Fitzgerald as the wind and the cold taunted me.
Whewww!!! Just being able to throw on the bathrobe, throw on shoes ,snap the final photo and hightail it back home was all I could take... Hey, and to my CTC friends, many of whom I have never had the chance to meet, hope your Plunge was awesome!!!!!! I was with you in spirit and in goosebumps.