I'm racing Ironman Monterrey 70.3 next weekend. There's (obviously) not a lot of content out there on the race, seeing as it's the first year in this incarnation. When I review video and photographs from its predecessor race, I see absolutely no swim skins/wet suits and no disc wheels. I'm flying in so knowing whether either is allowed or encouraged would be helpful. The lack of wetsuits was not a huge surprise, but the absence of ANY discs or swim skins seems peculiar. But I also noticed a ton or regular bikes and some very modest equipment across all three disciplines. So I initially thought, maybe the really high-end, nerdy, ultra-narcissistic stuff hadn't really hit our southern neighbors. But that seemed unlikely based on what I've seen from them when they cross the border to race Galveston, etc. Then I thought maybe past races have been short-course?.. but even then that seemed unlikely. And the bike course hardly seems like wide-open countryside so I disregarded heavy winds playing a factor. Usually there's always some goober (usually me) racing a disc even when they shouldn't..

All to say, does anyone have experience or feedback on this course in terms of whether swim skins or disc wheels would be beneficial? Their race Facebook presence indicates neither is prohibited. Typical Taper week OCD ruminations....