{"id":5371,"date":"2019-04-16T14:03:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T14:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"httpss:\/\/www.jerbacampervansredo.mtcserver.com\/?p=5371"},"modified":"2019-06-14T08:16:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T08:16:32","slug":"simon-willis-nellie-goes-wild-swimming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jerbacampervans.co.uk\/JerbaStaging\/blog\/simon-willis-nellie-goes-wild-swimming\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Willis: Nellie Goes Wild Swimming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then\n there\u2019s the realisation that, as human, you are completely out of your \nnatural element; vulnerable, unable to breathe below the surface, and \npotentially prey to what lies beneath.&nbsp; Yet part of your brain is more \nthan comfortable, it\u2019s hyper-alive.&nbsp; Perhaps this is an echo of time in \nthe womb or an even more distant mammalian response. You feel anxious \nyet at relaxed, alien yet at home.&nbsp; Frankly, it\u2019s weird.&nbsp; And very, very\n exciting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of\n course, it\u2019s all about the flow of blood the brain and other parts of \nthe body.&nbsp; Six minutes is how long it takes me to acclimatise to cold \nwater.&nbsp; For those long moments, the cold clutches at your throat making \nit hard to breath; feet, fingers and especially face, wanting to be \nanywhere except under the water.&nbsp; Indeed, the first few times you try to\n put them under, that mammalian brain kicks in what\u2019s called the \u201cdive \nresponse\u201d, actively making breathing difficult.&nbsp; It\u2019s trying to stop you\n from drowning.&nbsp; Resist the urge to leave the water, and within those \nsix minutes, blood supply to the extremities seeps away to preserve the \nbody\u2019s core functions.&nbsp; Suddenly, cold water swimming becomes not only \ntolerable but utterly fantastic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Liz and I swim year-round in \nScottish lochs, and Nellie is our ideal base.&nbsp; She\u2019s our long wheelbase \nJerba Campervan, and I\u2019m telling a few tales of how she has become an \nintegral part of the various adventure sports that feature in our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our\n nearest big pool is Loch Sunart where the temperature ranges from about\n 16c to 6c, so I\u2019m fairly well adapted to cold water, but I always wear a\n wetsuit.&nbsp; Some of our friends swim in just regular bathing costumes, \nwhat wild swimmers refer to as \u2018skins\u2019, relying not on the neoprene of a\n wetsuit but what they laughingly call their \u2018bioprene\u2019.&nbsp; Skin swimmers \nare the toughest of the tough.&nbsp; It\u2019s certainly not for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My \nThermal Helix wetsuit is specifically designed for cold open water \nswimming, with thicker panels around the core and thighs, and much \nthinner, flexible rubber across the shoulders, with added insulation \nfrom a special thin layer of what looks like microfleece.&nbsp; It works \nsuperbly.&nbsp; Once the temperature drops below 10C I add swimming gloves, \nbooties and a thermal cap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before\n learning about swim specific gloves I swam without.&nbsp; After thirty \nminutes, my little and ring fingers involuntarily contracted into claws,\n a reaction I subsequently learnt, of the ulnar nerve to the water \ntemperature.&nbsp; I was also advised that, when the middle and index fingers\n also start to claw, then the cold has reached the median nerve and it\u2019s\n time to get out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s when Nellie comes into her own.&nbsp; Up to \nthat point, she has done everything that could be expected of her, \ncarrying us and our kit to the start of our swim, then giving us a \nspacious changing room.&nbsp; Once our swim is over, she really shines.&nbsp; \nWhile other swimmers huddle in their cars, engines running and heaters \nblasting, we slip into Nellie\u2019s already toasty interior having left the \nWebasto heater ricking over while we swam.&nbsp; It is dangerous to warm up \ntoo quickly.&nbsp; Blood has to be coaxed slowly out of the core, back to the\n extremities.&nbsp; So we sit on Nellie\u2019s waterproof covers, change out of \nour wetsuits into cosy fleece, and begin to heat a pan of soup on the \nstove.&nbsp; Luxury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of all the adventure sports we enjoy, wild \nswimming gives me the closest contact with Scotland\u2019s spectacular \noutdoor environment.&nbsp; In this series, I\u2019ve written about sea kayaking, \ncycling, and triathlon, all of which bring me closer to that \nenvironment.&nbsp; But with wild swimming, I am immersed in it, figuratively \nand literally.&nbsp; The common thread linking our enjoyment of all our \nsports is Nellie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I write, I don\u2019t know where she\u2019ll take us next, but I do know it\u2019ll be a great adventure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\"><em>Simon Willis is the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/pacificcresttrail.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Day by Day on the Pacific Crest Trail<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/pacificcresttrail.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Scottish Sea Kayak Trail guidebook.<\/a>&nbsp; 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