B.C. woman hasn’t missed a morning dip for 1,293 days and counting
Global News
No matter the weather on Vancouver Island, it could be warm, cold or icy, Leasha MacLennan hasn't missed a morning dip for more than three years.
Comox Valley, B.C., resident Leasha MacLennan doesn’t need a coffee to wake up in the morning — she has found a different way.
“I just started getting up in the morning and forcing myself in the water every day,” she told Global News.
No matter the weather — it could be warm, cold or icy — MacLennan hasn’t missed a morning dip for more than three years.
“I’m allowed to say no,” she said. “I’m allowed to say, ‘OK, not today,’ if it’s too cold, too dangerous, too whatever.”
But so far, that hasn’t happened.
MacLennan has been doing this morning ritual for 1,293 days and counting.
Mostly she will take a dip in the Oyster River but she has also taken a dip in the ocean, river and various lakes.
“We bring spouses, we bring warm clothes, we bring fire, food,” MacLennan said.
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