Have just heard that lidl not aldi are doing short wet suits next week for £19.99!!...anyone ever seen them before or bought them?...of course far too cheap to be classed as proper Tri kit..
I have the Asda short wetsuit (Osprey) and have to say that it is a brill bit of kit for twenty quid! Most importantly, you can swim in in, which is more than can be said for the expensive -but -not -triathlon wetsuit I have just borrowed from a friend!
Cheryl - just email the organisers and ask - can't see it been a problem -
That Lidl suit would probably be very good for summer sea swims so you don't overheat in a full wetsuit - at that price worth a go if just for summer training.
Didds, Can I be disqualified for my wetsuit then? I was planning on waering my shorty to the Weymouth sprint next weekend, but don't want to be DNS!
pthers have far more experience than I but AIUI if the event is a mandatory wetsuit race then you have to have a wetsuit.
Quite WHAT a wetsuit actually "is" is I guess completely up to the organisers.
At what juncture - for example - does a tri-suit become a wetsuit... is it a lycra v neoprene call (I am NOT suggesting a tri suit IS wetsuit FTR!!)? If its a neoprne call then why shoudn;t a LIDL £20 neoprene shorty count/
But the only person that can answer these questions are the marshalls on the day - I am guessing.
Does the BTF have a defiition of what consitutes a wetsuit?
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http://www.lidl.co.uk/uk/home.nsf/pages/c.o.20090604.p.Neoprene_Shorty_Wetsuit.ar9
Looks not great really. 3mm all round. Would a wetsuit only race let you wear one?
I guess the question is...
"What is a wetsuit"/ Do BTF actually deinfie such a beast/
Of course, if the marshall/referee says it ain;t, then i guess it ain;t and there isn;t much you could do about it at that juncture!
didds
Who needs snobbery? Just go for it!
That Lidl suit would probably be very good for summer sea swims so you don't overheat in a full wetsuit - at that price worth a go if just for summer training.
pthers have far more experience than I but AIUI if the event is a mandatory wetsuit race then you have to have a wetsuit.
Quite WHAT a wetsuit actually "is" is I guess completely up to the organisers.
At what juncture - for example - does a tri-suit become a wetsuit... is it a lycra v neoprene call (I am NOT suggesting a tri suit IS wetsuit FTR!!)? If its a neoprne call then why shoudn;t a LIDL £20 neoprene shorty count/
But the only person that can answer these questions are the marshalls on the day - I am guessing.
Does the BTF have a defiition of what consitutes a wetsuit?
maybe these are rhetorical questions?
didds