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Would you ever?
Participate in a polar plunge? I'm just curious because a lot of people around here do it for charity. My Aunt is doing it this year to raise money for the Special Olympics. Which is super awesome for her because she had twins 9 years ago and one of the boys died 4 days after birth. After the autopsy she found out that he had downs syndrome, and ever since then she's been working in schools with special needs children.
I hate the cold so much, and I hate swimming, not to mention the bodies of water where they're doing this around me are pretty nasty (we call the Lake in our town "Lake Winne-septic" because everyone knows most of the sewage is dumped in there. I've fallen in this lake myself a few times and it's pretty gross.) I love that this is for charity, but I would never even consider doing it. I think I'll make a donation to her cause from my nice heated house instead! haha
Re: Would you ever?
I agree there is no way I could do that. I hate the cold!
ETA: And I definitely would not want to get in water with sewage no matter what temp it was. Eww!
I'll stick with my marathons for charity!
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I've had the chance to do it in the past and I was NOT interested.
For all the reasons that you've already stated... I would not go into the cold water during the coldest part of the year, and I definitely would not do it in a lake that is suspected to have sewage matter in it (they do it in a lake around here with the same issues)
If you donate and don't show up the coordinators of the event would probably even be happier than if you wanted to participate! I think that they do this because they assume that is what half the people will say/do and their event stays small.
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Brrr, I don't think I could do it, I hate the cold! I give people credit who can do it lol.
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hahahaha. My thoughts exactly!
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