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| The chronicles of Sanjeev Dwivedi |
Whitewater is cold.
Even in the dead of summer, it is pretty cold. By definition, whitewater means frothing water. As snow melts and the water rushes down the mountain, it picks up speed and where the channel becomes narrow, the water picks up more speed, and then where the channel again diverges, the water froths. Anyway, the key point is that whitewater is usually very close to mountains where it originates from the mountain snow caps. This makes it very very cold. In summer, the sun used to be out so if I would roll or swim, as I would get out, the atomosphere would dry me off or at the very least warm me up quickly. Now, on the other hand, I remain chilled all the time if I have to roll. I guess that means I gotta practice bracing a lot more.
This brings us to another topic. Even though officially summer got over last weekend and this summer was not really hot at all (read: it felt like winter a long time ago.), I had been pretending that it was not so. I just kept on pretending that it has been summer so far and getting in the lake and rolling like crazy. Thus, I have had a mild perpetual cold for last 2-3 months. I wake up everyday and my nose is slightly clogged. I take the comforter off and immediately, I sneeze a few times. I guess going kayaking in the evening and getting my head wet does not help much either.
I was having so much fun the entire summer that I almost forgot how winters in redmond are. The first few days of autumn have brought me back to earth. It is gray and murky. And so it begins. Last winter, my exercise regimen crashed and burned. In the summer prior to the last winter, I was biking every day and when summer ended, so did all exercise. I still remember it with a shudder. I would come how every evening, cook, eat, watch TV and go to sleep. Hope this winter will be a lot better. Only time will tell.
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