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Latest issue's magazine question: wetsuits
J Witts
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Well, after a few days in Abu Dhabi, have been absolutely useless in the office today - not great when print deadline this Thursday.
So to ease me out of my malaise, appreciate your help with this month's magazine question:
When wetsuit swimming, what one incident has made your toes cringe and made you question your whole triathlon existence!?
Personally, it was having to be winched in at my first triathlon (Windsor) many years ago. The stagger to T1 felt like an eternity, while my contemporaries had long gone on their bikes. Thankfully, my lack of prep didn't put me off our fine sport.
Over to you…
Right, off back home for an early night.
Cheers James (aka tired Ed)
So to ease me out of my malaise, appreciate your help with this month's magazine question:
When wetsuit swimming, what one incident has made your toes cringe and made you question your whole triathlon existence!?
Personally, it was having to be winched in at my first triathlon (Windsor) many years ago. The stagger to T1 felt like an eternity, while my contemporaries had long gone on their bikes. Thankfully, my lack of prep didn't put me off our fine sport.
Over to you…
Right, off back home for an early night.
Cheers James (aka tired Ed)
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Cue lots of running about, asking if anyone had a spare wetsuit (no one did, there was only one wave), while I was doing that a friend's mum tried to reattach the zip (but failed). The organisers were going to let me swim without a suit, but at the last minute our own Shadowone1 came through with a lycra top I could wear over the suit.
i swam and swam and swam... and swam: the trees at the bank barely moved. i had a little panic - not because i thought i'd be stranded, or end up being carried downstream to bath - but at the thought that my workmates might wonder where i was and call the emergency services. eventually i saw sense and swam to the bank where the current was weaker, and slowly made my way back.
i felt like a total idiot for putting myself in that position, not judging the water speed and not being honest with myself that effortless swimming really wasn't very likely!
i had a similar experience at north norfolk tri, where my wave were released a little early for the tide and caught the tail end of it at the turn point. i've never seen so much spray and chop on the surface, or felt so tired in my arms than after that race.
Make me jump like a girl (no offense intended to the fairer sex)
I pulled it up a little too far and ended up with a knacker down each leg. You try swimming like that for 750m and not at least yelping every now and again. Needless to say when I jumped on the bike they were a little sensitive. Really enjoyable day all round.... NOT.
Um to answer the question- not getting into the suit early enough meant it was a rush and not seated properly - it felt like it was closing up around my throat which got quite bad, made much worse by grabbing the reeds in the lake, panic set in and i ended up drinking a large gutful of the rather charming brown looking substance...unfortunately it wasn't chocloate regro (actually i'm glad it wasn't) i then proptly had to stand up and was sick in the water, just about managed to finish the swim and thankfully wasn't last
i say boat, rumour has it that it was more like a massive floating gin palace - wasn't it dave?
But yes... At Swashbuckler I was on the first lap coming back with the flow head down and just enjoying the feeling of stretching out and gliding along freely when.... CLUNK!!! My hand smacked into something very hard. I came up expecting to see some irate competitor lying face down in the water but all I could see was the hull of a rather large yacht. I think I'd managed to veer off to the right by about 30 metres!
I've tried to forget this incident and put it behind me, but thanks to my wonderful club mates I'm pretty much reminded of it every single day on the other forum.
Sometimes something comes along that is written down in history and never forgetten.
For example
Zola bud pushing that american bird over (decker) in the olympic's, Ben Johnsons eyes after his drug fuelled 100 metres, Gazza crying in the world cup and Dave swimming into a boat! Good company dave!
I would have loved to have seen it!!LOL
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All customers who hire this season could win a wetsuit!
In the Outlaw I started off OK, I am a slow swimmer due to an arthritic shoulder which is very weak - my excuse, in training aimed for 90 mins. After 200m we (the slower swimmers) started to encounter weeds like the Sargaso Sea kicked up by the faster swimmers. It clung to goggles, arms and was so bad I was pulled to a halt several times as it wrapped around my legs and even ripped off my timing chip. Several times I thought that I would not be able to break free of the stuff. Despite that once I got to clear water I enjoyed it and came in at 88 minutes.
I have been looking at wetsuits from this company because they are local
http://www.freakfish.co.uk/wetsuits.html
Do you think its wise to go for a surf wetsuit?
You can use a surfing wetsuit,but it would put you at a disadvantage.
A number of retailers sell off second hand ones or ex hire ones at the end of season,why not rent one for the season?