I’m doing my first Ironman this weekend and just did my normal swim with my tri shorts - lots of drag. Wondering if anyone here will wear their normal training suit and change in T1 into tri-shorts. Seems over 2.4 this would be a decent approach.
I say go old school and do the whole damn thing in your speedo.
I always used to use regular long cycling shorts in the swim with no problem. Just make sure they are tight and have a draw string. They were the original jammer before there were jammers. Sure they might be .05 seconds slow for a 100, but it was never enough to matter to me, and I made all that up and more in transition not having to screw with my shorts. I really like the DeSoto longer cycling short for this, it just seem to fit right, and even when he put in the pockets, they were mesh and did not hold any water…