My winter swim memories

My unit is a serious and serious enterprise with a strong competitive atmosphere, and it is also a warm family that cares for each other and has a rich cultural life. After entering this unit for more than thirty years, while working hard and completing tasks, I loved sports activities, liked to play basketball when I was young, and after forty years old, I thought that playing basketball might cause damage to my knees and lumbar spine, so I gradually reduced the number of basketball games and increased the number of swimming times from that year, and began winter swimming at the age of forty-five, and now it has been more than ten years. More than ten years, nearly five thousand days, the time is short and long, the content is monotonous and rich, it feels good and wonderful, and the harvest is huge and rich. What is the experience of winter swimming? Simply put, two sentences, eight words: endless fun, beautiful. Specifically, it is:

Winter swimming is the sport of the brave. Count nine cold days, the grass and trees wither, the north wind whistles, dripping water into ice. People have changed into cotton clothes and leather coats, put on cotton hats and leather hats, put on cotton boots and shoes, put on scarves around the neck to protect themselves from the cold, and wrap their bodies tightly, lest a trace of cold penetrate into the body. Cotton curtains and leather curtains are installed at the doors of the house to try to block out all the cold; all kinds of indoor heating facilities - heating, air conditioning, electric heating are all working at full power. Cold, but what a "cold" word! Even dipping a drop of cold water also feels cold and bone-chilling. Winter swimmers jump naked into the water where the temperature drops to about 1 degree, and swim freely in the waves. Where the skin is slightly closer to the bone, such as ten fingers, calves, etc., it is as painful as a drill. Due to the extremely low temperature, after the end of the swim, you must seize the time to carry out relatively large and long activities, obtain the temperature as soon as possible, and force away the cold, otherwise, you will shiver and shake your body.

Winter swimming is expensive in perseverance, but also must be persistent, three days of fishing, two days of drying nets will not adapt, and even cause damage to the body. We have specific work, we have specific responsibilities, and it is not easy to stick to it. To work and exercise, we must make reasonable arrangements, block reasons with will, and do not use reasons to block actions. One year, the unit required the drafting of a "Plan for Handling Emergencies" for each business site and important parts, which was a large workload, high requirements and tight time. In order to complete the task, I came early and left late, and my attendance for several days in the past month was connected by morning check-in and evening sign-off (at that time, the fingerprint attendance machine disappeared until the next employee's attendance), that is, many days in the unit building, I was the last to leave work, the earliest one to work. In this way, I also swim after work, and then return to the unit to work overtime to write the "Plan". I remember another time, that winter was particularly cold, and the trains were late. I came back from a business trip, went to the train station parking lot to put my luggage in the car I had stored there, picked up the swimming gear, and walked to the Yindu Bridge (where to swim) on the Anyang River. Along the way, the wind was blowing, the snow was blowing, and the number of pedestrians was much smaller than usual. I walked hard for more than 30 minutes to reach the Yindu Bridge. Probably because of the unusually cold temperature that day, many swimmers are hesitating and wandering around the river. Without hesitation, I decisively changed into my swimsuit, jumped into the river to try the water, and after getting used to it, I swam. My actions led the onlookers to strip and get out of the water.

Winter swimming (including swimming in other seasons) looks monotonous, just repeating a few actions at a time, but in fact, the content is very rich, giving winter swimmers a spiritual enjoyment: floating on the surface of the turquoise water, floating in the air, as if getting rid of the gravity of the earth, like feathering dengxian. The ripples of the waves beat the ice lying on the surface of the water, making a creaking sound, like the playing of a silk bamboo instrument, and the swimmer enjoys the sound of nature. The change of weather also gives swimmers different pleasures: when the wind and the sun are beautiful, the level is like a mirror, swimming leisurely, as if entering the kingdom of freedom, its joy and harmony; sometimes "the wind rises, blowing a pool of water", the breeze blows, rolling up the ripples, the body shakes with the waves, making people think of it; encountering the wind, the huge waves rolling, the tourists are like a leaf, although violently undulating, but not moving, showing the true color of the hero, it is really breathtaking. During the day the sun is shining, the water is shining, the emptiness is sparse, the heart is relaxed, and the moonlight at night is bright, sparkling, far and deep, and the insult is forgotten. Rainy days rain feet like hemp, rain sound, clouds and mist, light is bright and dark; when the rain falls, the rapid raindrops close to the water surface into a few inches of milky fog, with the blue water, ink to form three layers of color, the scene is spectacular and gorgeous; snow snowflakes flying on snowy days, snow shadows, "jade dragons fighting, scales and armor falling in the sky", the scenery is beautiful and enchanting; sunny days or cloudless, or white clouds, occasionally wild birds flying, fish playing, full of poetry, swimming places become paradise, as if entering a dream world. There are no proper words for all kinds of wonderful beauty. Due to the cold weather, after landing, the skin was frozen red, and it hurt to be beaten, so it could only be gently dried with a towel. If you wear clothes a little slower, your fingers are so numb that you can't even button up your clothes. However, when the heat is recovered through exercise, the kind of refreshing energy is probably only comparable to "plum blossom fragrance from bitter cold".

Winter swimming for more than ten years, benefiting a lot and harvesting a lot. "Once the sea was shipwrecked as water, except for the Wushan Mountain is not a cloud", people who dare to jump into the ice water to swim in the winter, will there be something to be afraid of in their eyes? Increased courage, with courage, there is confidence in doing work, what heavy burden do not dare to bear? What other tasks can't be accomplished? Since joining the work, the task is arduous and the difficulty is great, and the strong fitness body obtained by physical exercise and the tenacious will formed in the exercise have always been resolute and successfully completed.

People say that the greatest wealth in life is health, and I have gained health and become the richest person in the world. Winter swimming for more than ten years, the amount of food has not increased, but the weight has increased by 10 kilograms, which may be the reason for the reduction of organ health and dripping. Once Rummaging through boxes and cabinets looking for something, I happened to encounter a bunch of rheumatic painkillers, which have been many years, and the white cloth on the front is yellow. Then I remembered that it was my knee treatment before winter swimming. At that time, my knees were sore for dozens of days a year, and it was very difficult to go up and down the stairs, and this problem that had trapped me for many years had healed unconsciously in the winter swimming. I suspect that maybe the body is not weight-bearing when swimming, which is conducive to knee exercise and recovery, and the knee pain problem has magically disappeared. Because I was born stupid, I have not mastered the essentials of swimming, and the same distance is much more laborious than others. Although the speed is slow, but the fool has a stupid fortune, the effect of the exercise is more obvious: there is no extra flesh of the same age, the body is fit, the hands are strong, and some people joke about the devil's body. It is also a kind of lost east and harvested mulberry.

Xun Zi said in the "Persuasion": "If you do not climb a high mountain, you do not know the height of the heavens; if you do not come to a deep stream, you do not know the thickness of the earth." "I said that if I don't participate in winter swimming, I don't know the mystery of winter swimming, I can't enjoy the fun of winter swimming, and I can't get the healthy body that I must have for my work."