Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Cold Shower #4: A Return to Earth?

 After writing my last post about have a cold shower breakthrough, I started to wonder if perhaps I had prematurely declared victory. Maybe going for a run before shower #3 had altered my body temp enough to soften the feeling of freezing water? Last night was the test.

After a long day walking around in historic Cordoba, I returned home to news that a hoard of Trumpistas had invaded the Capitol building to "Save America". This isn't a political blog, at least not until I find a way to associate politics with a discomfort-related, political, 30-day challenge, but wow. That was pretty wild! I can't wait for Biden's inauguration. Who knows what fun the MAGA crowd has in store for us?

If it ain't broke, don't fix it, so I cued up Raining Blood and upped my goal time to three minutes. Once again, I thrashed and headbanged around the shower. It felt every-so-slightly longer than my previous shower, which squared with my hypothesis that prior exercise had eased my previous shower, but the difference was no big deal. Objective met. 

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