As most swimmers know, the cliched phrase for swimming in cold water without a wetsuit is called ‘breaking the ice’ and it seems that in Australia, they have turned the dawn of the winter swimming season into a Melting the ice spectacular.
Kristy McIntyre and Mark Fabik, both battle hardened Serpentine ice swimmers joined the floe with the Bondi icebergs swimming club. Mark and Kristy treated the event seriously and you can see Mark kindly icing the back of a man with a retro ponytail. About 400 people joined in with the fun.
A few days later, its seemed that all lanes were back to normal in the pool.
And a swimming couple they are too as an American swimming blog listed Mark and Kristy as a famous open water swimming couple.
[John Tierney]
