Today Was a Good Test of my Tolerance for Pain
It was a cold one this morning. I was riding my bike to go for my morning swim and was freezing on the way there. It’s about a 15 minute ride along the paseo that clips along the sea and I was very cold before getting to my swim spot. There was no sun, and when I got to my place where I go swimming, it began to rain. So not only was I going into very cold water, but I was dealing with rain and cold weather as I removed my clothes. Going from cold to colder isn’t so fun. I was already thinking about my warm space heater in my office that was waiting for me once I got home. The bike ride home was even colder because my hands and feet were ice cold from the swim. I like to put them in warm water and crank the heat up in my house to expedite the heating up of my body. It usually takes me an hour after my swim to regulate my body temperature and feel comfortable again. I’m grateful for having high quality heating and air in my house because the last flat I lived in had no central heat or air, and it was always either too hot or too cold inside the place. It’s worth paying a few hundred dollars more per month to live in a better quality environment, and it probably keeps me much healthier too. I’m also using a HEPA filter in my AC unit to keep the air nice and clean.