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watergasm noun

The feeling of bliss achieved when cold-water swimming (usually below 12°C) after your body has overcome the shock and pain of entering the water and before the cold dangerously enters your core leading to hypothermia. A sense of calm when you feel at one with the natural world, totally relaxed and unaware of time

Origin

From an idea by Bel, refined collaboratively by her group of Lakeland cold-water swimmers

Collector

Bel – 2024
Annabel Burn (Iliff) – sibling of Mark

Submitted: 22/10/2024 by Mark ● Last updated: 22/10/2024 16:43 by Mark

any thoughts?

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