Thank you, Fred. All the best to you and yours in the coming years.
Ryan, I will continue recording them here. These posts serve many purposes, including adding all of the little details that I don't have room for in my logbook. The feedback and banter is a great thing, too. Looking back at last winter, I did a 2-day split - Intensity Squat/Bench on one day, Intensity Deadlift/Press on the other. Two days a week, at least one intensity set for each of the main lifts. I threw chins in there too when things slowed down. More than anything, it minimized my regression through the winter and my NLP come spring was pretty short for most of the lifts.
That's not me. Always with the shoes once I start my training session. Getting set up, I'll walk around out there barefoot, and it does get a bit chilly, but I don't lollygag, so it's not a problem.
It's been a couple of decades since I ducked under a winter wave down there. By that time, I had spent a lot of time in warm water (Japan and Australia) and the 2' slop wasn't enough to keep me engaged. A far cry from being a young teen, keen on learning to surf, without a wetsuit, pushing through winter chasing the big swells. I now know that there were times that we were hypothermic, something I work hard to avoid now.
Hopefully you get more than a few great sessions over the winter!