Swimming Rules
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vanjames posted 1 year ago.
If the water is too warm for a wetsuit you can swim with no top and put one on at T! (very hard). If the majority of your racing will be wetsuit illegal then invest in a swim skin that you wear over your tri outfit -one or two piece. It has no bouyancy but provides the same drag benefits a wetsuit gives and is legal for all races. Blue seventy has one, Orca Killa, and I'm sure a few others.
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UFTriGator posted 1 year ago.
Sometime people roll their top all the way down around their waist and roll the whole thing into their shorts. As you come out of the water, you roll the top back up and over your shoulders, just like you're roll the wetsuit down. I've never tried this, but I've seen it work well before.
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-Matt
Not fast enough.
This is my first year doing triathlons and all the races I have been thus far have been with a wetsuit. I am doing a half ironman and today I decided to practice with my tri-clothes and I discovered that the top creates a lot of resistance. Is it legal to start the swim without a top and put the top on in the transition to the bike ?
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