Re your article on cold water swimming (Cold water immersion therapy: do the benefits outweigh the risks?, 30 September), I swam in the men’s pond on Hampstead Heath for 10 years all year round. And, whatever opinions physicians and others pronounce, I think the benefits of daily immersion to mental and physical health are irrefutable.
The fact is, I felt better, my circulation improved and the experience itself – sometimes almost an out-of-body one – was wonderful. Moreover, swimming when there was a thin sheet of ice on the water produced a lovely sizzling sound as the thin ice sheet waved and nearly buckled. I stayed in the water for
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