Cold water swimming cured my internalised misogyny ✒️ dooney_emma via ipaperviews
The few minutes that followed are mostly a blur, but from what I remember, they involved a lot of swear words, a thrashing towards the deck, an attempt at towelling, and a stumble into first aid. The next thing I knew, I was being defrosted back to life by two lifeguards. One made me sweet tea, another blow-dried my hair. As the cold water evaporated from my body, so did any ego I had left.
I had approached the Ladies’ Pond with a disdain for its women’s only policy, having been conditioned to believe that the absence of a male energy in a space somehow compromised its legitimacy. To exercise only around other women, whom I viewed as smaller and weaker versions of men, made me feel insecure about my own athletic abilities. In many ways, I saw the Ladies’ Pond as the “kiddie’s pool” of, where women swam docilely for leisure while the hardened men trained vigorously for competition.
The irony is, there is nothing weak or second-class about the women of the Ladies’ Pond. I have become a regular at Kenwood since my hypothermia episode, and each visit has only served to unravel these deep-rooted biases. Over the past four months, I have watched women in their seventies dive into 3℃ water, resurfacing several seconds later without so much as a flinch. I have met women who come to the pond almost every day of the year, braving its Baltic temperatures no matter the weather.
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