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Race tomorrow: forgot trisuit, need suggestion
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Luckily, I have my training speedo in my swim bag. But I only have a dri-fit run top. To adhere to the no-nipples showing rule, I can wear it.

Question: it's a wetsuit legal race. Wear the run top under the wetsuit or risk struggling to get it on in T1?

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Re: Race tomorrow: forgot trisuit, need suggestion [milesthedog] [ In reply to ]
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Wear it under the wetsuit. I once saw someone struggle for >5 minutes in T1 at a race where I was spectating a friend.
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Re: Race tomorrow: forgot trisuit, need suggestion [GreenPlease] [ In reply to ]
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Sounds like a plan

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Re: Race tomorrow: forgot trisuit, need suggestion [GreenPlease] [ In reply to ]
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GreenPlease wrote:
Wear it under the wetsuit. I once saw someone struggle for >5 minutes in T1 at a race where I was spectating a friend.
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yes, yes, YES wear it under.
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Re: Race tomorrow: forgot trisuit, need suggestion [milesthedog] [ In reply to ]
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milesthedog wrote:
Sounds like a plan

Be sure to post pictures tomorrow night of you competing in your old-school Speedo!!!


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Re: Race tomorrow: forgot trisuit, need suggestion [ericmulk] [ In reply to ]
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No shirt, ride and run in wetsuit.
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Re: Race tomorrow: forgot trisuit, need suggestion [Mike Alexander] [ In reply to ]
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Mike Alexander wrote:
No shirt, ride and run in wetsuit.

I see this as your only option.
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Re: Race tomorrow: forgot trisuit, need suggestion [GreenPlease] [ In reply to ]
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GreenPlease wrote:
Wear it under the wetsuit. I once saw someone struggle for >5 minutes in T1 at a race where I was spectating a friend.

This is how I have raced triathlon for the vast majority of triathlons the last 33 years...wear the run singlet under the wetsuit (with number pinned) Strip wetsuit after swim....ride and run in singlet.....done!
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Re: Race tomorrow: forgot trisuit, need suggestion [dashelj] [ In reply to ]
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dashelj wrote:
Mike Alexander wrote:
No shirt, ride and run in wetsuit.

I see this as your only option.



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Re: Race tomorrow: forgot trisuit, need suggestion [milesthedog] [ In reply to ]
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How does one forget their racing gear??
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Re: Race tomorrow: forgot trisuit, need suggestion [milesthedog] [ In reply to ]
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wore the shirt under the wetsuit and while it was wet on the bike, it was fine. won the small sprint tri and enjoyed the day. Thanks!

as to the person asking how you forget something for a race.... it must be nice to be so perfect [and good looking]!

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Last edited by: milesthedog: Jun 25, 17 4:33
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Re: Race tomorrow: forgot trisuit, need suggestion [milesthedog] [ In reply to ]
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I forgot my cycling shoes in the trunk of my wife's car once. It was at the Desert Princess biathlon and didn't realize it until after I had finished the first 10K run.
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Re: Race tomorrow: forgot trisuit, need suggestion [jimatbeyond] [ In reply to ]
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Did you ride in your running shoes?

Oh yeah, someone asked for a photo. I'm not sure how this will work for my future academic career if someone looks me up online and finds that another grown man asked for a picture of me in a speedo on an online forum:

https://www.strava.com/activities/1052380798

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Re: Race tomorrow: forgot trisuit, need suggestion [jimatbeyond] [ In reply to ]
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Did you remember your skis and rifle?
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Re: Race tomorrow: forgot trisuit, need suggestion [jimatbeyond] [ In reply to ]
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jimatbeyond wrote:
I forgot my cycling shoes in the trunk of my wife's car once. It was at the Desert Princess biathlon and didn't realize it until after I had finished the first 10K run.

I left my bike shoes on the trunk after a tri and didn't remember until I got home and couldn't find them.
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Re: Race tomorrow: forgot trisuit, need suggestion [bufordt] [ In reply to ]
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bufordt wrote:
jimatbeyond wrote:
I forgot my cycling shoes in the trunk of my wife's car once. It was at the Desert Princess biathlon and didn't realize it until after I had finished the first 10K run.

I left my bike shoes on the trunk after a tri and didn't remember until I got home and couldn't find them.

I did this once. It was my first time without a checklist. "I got this, I said to myself." Trouble was I was in a different country with now at a to get back for the shoes.

I ended up finding an Lbs and buying the cheapest pair of compatible shoes. Say hello to my new commuter shoes.
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Re: Race tomorrow: forgot trisuit, need suggestion [milesthedog] [ In reply to ]
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I was using Aerolite pedals, so running shoes would have been real rough. I think the bike portion was 38 miles.

My wife ran out to the car and got my cycling shoes for me. (I had no idea where she had parked.)
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Re: Race tomorrow: forgot trisuit, need suggestion [Macaroni Kid] [ In reply to ]
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Macaroni Kid wrote:
Did you remember your skis and rifle?


In the 1980s, a running and biking race was called a biathlon.
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Re: Race tomorrow: forgot trisuit, need suggestion [milesthedog] [ In reply to ]
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Ok that picture was disturbing......... :0

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Re: Race tomorrow: forgot trisuit, need suggestion [milesthedog] [ In reply to ]
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milesthedog wrote:
wore the shirt under the wetsuit and while it was wet on the bike, it was fine. won the small sprint tri and enjoyed the day. Thanks!

as to the person asking how you forget something for a race.... it must be nice to be so perfect!

You won the race overall??? How many people total and what were your splits???


"Anyone can be who they want to be IF they have the HUNGER and the DRIVE."
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Re: Race tomorrow: forgot trisuit, need suggestion [ericmulk] [ In reply to ]
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ericmulk wrote:
milesthedog wrote:
wore the shirt under the wetsuit and while it was wet on the bike, it was fine. won the small sprint tri and enjoyed the day. Thanks!

as to the person asking how you forget something for a race.... it must be nice to be so perfect!


You won the race overall??? How many people total and what were your splits???


Small, very low key race with amazing scenery - had really been wanting to check out that area north of Covington and the mountains were pretty amazing. results:
https://static1.squarespace.com/...4422/prelim_bath.pdf

swim, bike and run posted on strava. didn't get to warm up on the bike so legs were a bit tight providing a clear ceiling, and if I wanted to bang out more power, I would have needed that warm up. hit the swim pretty hard and enjoyed the head-current and chop on the way back. Good small destination race with the Homestead resort, small cabins and b&b's, and the GW national forest all around with loads of waterfalls.

nit pick: the swim and bike distance appear to change some from year to year, so it's hard to compare times. this year, the swim was 80m extra and in addition to having some people biking on the wrong side of the road (their far left; out and back bike) and one guy with his bike upside down to change a flat in the middle of my right/his left side of the road as I was headed downhill; the bike was .3-.7 mile more than in previous years looking back at rides from the race on strava. Looking at the fastest time ever biked on the course, I found the person's strava activity and selecting the uphill section on the way out from both of our strava activitites to where he turned around (but where I kept going due to the longer course), we both held 20.7mph, so assuming we would have ridden the same speed on the way back downhill with nobody riding towards us on the wrong side of the road, my time could have been two and half minutes faster on the shorter course used in previous iterations of the race, which would have set the course record by more than 90 seconds. The course appears to have been the same as in 2013, when one of my swim partners won it in 1:09:43. A lot of folks don't care about that kind of thing, but if a race has been around for more than a decade, it's nice to compare times and aim to set a course record when previous years' competition isn't there to race head to head.

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Last edited by: milesthedog: Jun 25, 17 9:54
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Re: Race tomorrow: forgot trisuit, need suggestion [milesthedog] [ In reply to ]
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That's so WRONG!
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Re: Race tomorrow: forgot trisuit, need suggestion [milesthedog] [ In reply to ]
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milesthedog wrote:
ericmulk wrote:
milesthedog wrote:
wore the shirt under the wetsuit and while it was wet on the bike, it was fine. won the small sprint tri and enjoyed the day. Thanks!

as to the person asking how you forget something for a race.... it must be nice to be so perfect!


You won the race overall??? How many people total and what were your splits???


Small, very low key race with amazing scenery - had really been wanting to check out that area north of Covington and the mountains were pretty amazing. results:
https://static1.squarespace.com/...4422/prelim_bath.pdf

swim, bike and run posted on strava. didn't get to warm up on the bike so legs were a bit tight providing a clear ceiling, and if I wanted to bang out more power, I would have needed that warm up. hit the swim pretty hard and enjoyed the head-current and chop on the way back. Good small destination race with the Homestead resort, small cabins and b&b's, and the GW national forest all around with loads of waterfalls. only complaint: the swim and bike distance appear to change some from year to year, so it's hard to compare times. this year, the swim was 100m extra and the bike was .3-.5 mile more than in previous years, though it was probably the same as in 2013 - a lot of folks don't care about that kind of thing, but if a race has been around for more than a decade, it's nice to compare times and aim to set a course record...

Pretty impressive though, you won by 16 min in 65 min (for you) race. You were clearly "the class" of the field. :)


"Anyone can be who they want to be IF they have the HUNGER and the DRIVE."
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