> # holiday hike, mud wallow and vasodilator swim

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> Posted by Zonie on November 25, 2016 at 00:02:29

> In the USA, the fourth Thursday of November is the traditional day for family quarrels. My family got ours over with on Sunday. My sister-in-law and my mother quarreled, then I offended my niece by making a joke about it (word to the wise: never imply that your sister-in-law has supernatural powers), then my niece and my mother quarreled, and by the time the meal was served there were fewer than half of those who were supposed to be there still there. The result was that I got to spend today alone.

> I was at work during Monday's thunderstorm, but the radar reports were that there was more rain in the northeast part of the city, so I figured I should go hiking at Reach 11 and play in the mud. The east parts of the trail definitely had some mud, but it wasn't very deep. It was good for churning up and sliding a bit, but not for a wallow.

> In the afternoon I decided to take a pick-ax to the mud pit and refill it with the hose and do a wallow. I then stayed muddy and pulled some back yard weeds and then hosed off. To make the day complete, it was time for a swim. I could definitely tell from the pool water that winter was coming, but the system shock was a lot less severe than it usually is at this time of year.

> I then remembered that my cardiologist had me take vasodilators, and that vasoconstriction is the main cause of the system shock upon entry into cold water. They always tell you about the bad side effects of medications but never about the good side effects. This stuff may make winter swimming more bearable. Of course the down side is that vasoconstriction helps conserve heat, so without it, it won't be safe to stay in quite as long.

> The cardiologist diagnosed me with something called "exercise-induced hypertension." It makes it sound like exercise is bad for you, but he insists that's not the case. He also said something about my being too scrawny and needing to bulk up and about needing to put a lot more salt on my food (or maybe it was the opposite). Now was that two tablets every six hours or six tablets every two hours...

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