I hope some of you can help with this, especially those who swim lots of yardage. I am now swimming 4 miles non-stop daily with 1 day off a week and so far, so good; the body is happy as a bird singing. But I am having a terrible time with swim suit chafing. I wear a 2-piece (don't laugh) because of the freedom, but the swim suit top is giving me blisters in places I won't describe. Also, my neck, both sides, are getting blisters and then scabbing. I've been using vaseline on my neck and that helps, but it is so bad I am going to have to take a day or two off for them to heal because salt water and blisters is OUCH big time.
Does anyone know about lanolin and where I can get it? And would it help? Any other suggestions as to products to reduce this? I guess I could always just take my top off, shove it in my bottoms, and continue on my way, but I don't want to frighten the beautiful fish. And then the blistering neck problem needs to be solved.
ANY recommendations would be appreciated because training is going so well and I don't want downtime for this stupid problem!!! Any doctors here with suggestions? Any 1500 freestylers here? Any mega-yardage people here with similar problems? If this continues and I don't find a fix, I will be a candidate for plastic surgery right after my 18 mile swim to get rid of the scars!!
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Donna
Parents
Former Member
Its the am swim ritual, insert ear plugs (getting grease on them makes for a mess), lay out goggles and cap, check suit is on under sweats, remove sweats add cap & goggles, grease chafe spots and injuries (I always have some healing bit somewhere), I see many others applying aquaphore or vaseline or bodyglide too. Don't forget to warm-up a bit (and did you put on sunscreen) then you're off.
Bodyglide costs the most/application, store brand vaseline the least, you'll want to wash your suit out with some sort of soap from time to time as the grease makes it sticky and stiff.
I won a 20 mile kayak race once and as I got out my friend asked when I changed to a red shirt...it was a flesh eating sports bra under my shirt that did it, last week I wore fins and got out leaking red from my feet.
OUCH, OUCH, and one more OUCH! When people talk to me about my 18 mile swim in the future, they always ask about sharks, jellyfish, the regular stuff; my problems are more serious than those: skin chafing, strong currents, and completing the darn thing!!!
Its the am swim ritual, insert ear plugs (getting grease on them makes for a mess), lay out goggles and cap, check suit is on under sweats, remove sweats add cap & goggles, grease chafe spots and injuries (I always have some healing bit somewhere), I see many others applying aquaphore or vaseline or bodyglide too. Don't forget to warm-up a bit (and did you put on sunscreen) then you're off.
Bodyglide costs the most/application, store brand vaseline the least, you'll want to wash your suit out with some sort of soap from time to time as the grease makes it sticky and stiff.
I won a 20 mile kayak race once and as I got out my friend asked when I changed to a red shirt...it was a flesh eating sports bra under my shirt that did it, last week I wore fins and got out leaking red from my feet.
OUCH, OUCH, and one more OUCH! When people talk to me about my 18 mile swim in the future, they always ask about sharks, jellyfish, the regular stuff; my problems are more serious than those: skin chafing, strong currents, and completing the darn thing!!!
