May 5th - What Lies Beneath

After trying to come to terms with the cold I then had to come to terms with what lay beneath. At first I was only breathing on one side on every second stroke so that I could spend less time looking into the black abyss. I could only see as far as my elbow under water. Stories of eels and weever fish coming up to bite me in my already shrunk and frozen privates had done me no good, considering I still had the jelly fish to contend with (jellies only out in June). But I knew that the more I exposed myself to my fears then the more I would be able to cope with them and conquer them on a daily basis until they were no longer fears, just common sensations.