US Polar Bear swimmers
...while braving freezing temperatures as hundreds participate in the annual Coney Island Polar Bear Club New Year´s Day swim at Coney Island on January 1, 2009 in New York City.


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Competitors struggle through the mud of the River Blackwater in Maldon, Essex UK, during the annual Maldon Mud Race, 4 January 2009. Over 200 competitors, many in fancy dress, took part in the race through freezing estuary mud.

But why?
ps. I did not participate in any of the above events. !!
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