It’s the whole: “I was frozen for two hours afterwards” thing is the reason I have never and will never do it.
Yep- same here, it takes about two hours to thaw out even a hot shower does not warm ya up fast enough, The Polar Bear Plunge that Tatur puts on in Tulsa is one of the most grueling Polar Bear events around and it was only 30 degrees air temp when I did it in 2013- I'd hate to think how it would feel if it was 20 degrees or colder. In most other cities the Polar Bear is just a quick run into a lake, river, or pool and out and your done. With Tatur in Tulsa you have to run two miles jump into the first pool then run a half mile wet to the next pool two then run another half mile to pool number three dive to the bottom of that pool to grab your medal and dash to the finish line 200 meters away. The pools used are that of an apartment complex on the River. They said last year before the first heat took off the pools had a coating of ice on them and some runners got cut by the sharp ice in the pools. By the time the second heat took off the pool ice was gone.