During the twelve days of Christmas, these were sent to the hardest working swimmers... Twelve Eira Ice Swimmer Bags for the cold water specialists... Eleven different Hammer Head swim caps for the races... Ten tubs of Ocean Grease for the channel swimmers... Nine days at the Cork Distance Week for the marathon swimmers... Eight bags of AKUA
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Open water swimmers, especially channel swimmers and marathon swimmers, have an interesting relationship with lanolin. They use lanolin for prevent chafing or to reduce the initial shock of cold water. They use lanolin with Vaseline or Desitin or Safe Sea or other ointments and creams or anti-chafe spray
Vito Bialla is teaming up with Susan Moody and Mauricio Prieto, two other powerful fundraisers when it comes to charity swims in a 6-person relay attempt across the Sea of Cortez in Mexico. A sextet of Bialla, Moody, Prieto, Luane Rowe, Richard Ernst and Antonio Argüelles will raise more money on their 88-mile (141.6 km) charity relay across the formidable
