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@knightlancer
I've been working on increasing tolerance for cold this winter to help with longer stage races I'm considering - no central heating, keep windows open, only wear shorts and t-shirt / vest, swim OW throughout the winter. Makes a big difference.
Go back a couple of hundred years - most of this country was living in huts with an open fire in one room, draughts everywhere, one set of damp, ragged clothes, thin sheets, no modern fibres - we're made to acclimatise. I'd guess the UK populace has only been mostly 'warm' for the last 50 years.