Congratulations to Ron Collins who successfully swam the English Channel this season. It is nice to see an event director who also can swim! Ron directs the annual 24 Mile Tampa Bay Marathon Swim.
See Ron's website for details: www.distancematters.com
“This also happens in fresh water.” George, I’ll take your word on this one. Most of my long races have been salt water swims, only Manhattan Island and a 25K Lake swim have been fresh or near-fresh water. And it may have been that I was properly greased for these two.
And since George brought up Lanolin – Lesson 6: Don’t use Lanolin for warm-to-hot water swims, it has a tendency to melt away when it gets warm. I stick with Vaseline in any race over about 70F. Although Lanolin or channel grease (50/50 Lanolin-Vaseline) works best for me in cold water, below 65F.
“This also happens in fresh water.” George, I’ll take your word on this one. Most of my long races have been salt water swims, only Manhattan Island and a 25K Lake swim have been fresh or near-fresh water. And it may have been that I was properly greased for these two.
And since George brought up Lanolin – Lesson 6: Don’t use Lanolin for warm-to-hot water swims, it has a tendency to melt away when it gets warm. I stick with Vaseline in any race over about 70F. Although Lanolin or channel grease (50/50 Lanolin-Vaseline) works best for me in cold water, below 65F.
