bike/run in swim suit - Triathlon Week

05-07-2005, 10:32 PM

Is it ok or comfortable to do the bike and run portions while wearing my
regular bike short style (no chamois) swim trunks?

Your help is .....well.....helpful

B

05-08-2005, 06:32 AM

In article <dDgfe.1273115$6l.429343@pd7tw2no>, "B" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]>
wrote:

> Is it ok or comfortable to do the bike and run portions while wearing my
> regular bike short style (no chamois) swim trunks?

You can certainly do it--many people do entire races in regular Speedos.
As to comfort, that certainly depends on the length of the race and how
tender you are. I usually wear tri shorts (with a quick-drying fleece
chamois) for races up to half-Ironman. For my one Ironman race, I
changed into bike shorts and then to running shorts because I thought
comfort was more important than speed for a race that long (I was just
trying to finish under 17 hours).

--Harold Buck

"I used to rock and roll all night,
and party every day.
Then it was every other day. . . ."
-Homer J. Simpson

05-08-2005, 10:57 AM

Hey Harold,

Did you ever post your write up from your ironman?

Roger

On 2005-05-08 08:32:04 -0400, Harold Buck <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> said:

> In article <dDgfe.1273115$6l.429343@pd7tw2no>, "B" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote:
>
>> Is it ok or comfortable to do the bike and run portions while wearing
>> my regular bike short style (no chamois) swim trunks?
>
>
> You can certainly do it--many people do entire races in regular
> Speedos. As to comfort, that certainly depends on the length of the
> race and how tender you are. I usually wear tri shorts (with a
> quick-drying fleece chamois) for races up to half-Ironman. For my one
> Ironman race, I changed into bike shorts and then to running shorts
> because I thought comfort was more important than speed for a race that
> long (I was just trying to finish under 17 hours).
>
> --Harold Buck
>
>
> "I used to rock and roll all night,
> and party every day.
> Then it was every other day. . . ."
> -Homer J. Simpson

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05-08-2005, 11:00 AM

In article <2005050812571016807%roger2@rogerHELLOcortesicom>,
Roger Cortesi <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote:

>
> Did you ever post your write up from your ironman?
>

Yes, I did. It was posted in Sept. 2004. If you can't find it through
google groups let me know.

--Harold Buck

"I used to rock and roll all night,
and party every day.
Then it was every other day. . . ."
-Homer J. Simpson

05-08-2005, 11:10 PM

On Sun, 08 May 2005 12:00:30 -0500, Harold Buck wrote:

> In article <2005050812571016807%roger2@rogerHELLOcortesicom>,
> Roger Cortesi <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote:
>
>
>> Did you ever post your write up from your ironman?
>>
>>
>
> Yes, I did. It was posted in Sept. 2004. If you can't find it through
> google groups let me know.
>
> --Harold Buck
>
>
> "I used to rock and roll all night,
> and party every day.
> Then it was every other day. . . ."
> -Homer J. Simpson

....and most entertaining reading it was too!

Steve

05-09-2005, 10:21 AM

This weekend I did my first tri - it was a short one, so one of the
things I was using it for was to test my apparel. I swam in my bicycle
shorts, and never even thought about it once. I was afraid that having
the wet chamois in my crotch would be uncomfortable during the bike or
the run, but I never even noticed it. I plan on wearing the same thing
for every race I do from here on out.

05-09-2005, 05:57 PM

make sure the shorts have fairly thin fleecy synthetic chamois, and
you'll be fine. one thing though is to make sure they have a drawstring
rather than just elastic so they dont slip down while swimming.

05-09-2005, 06:24 PM

"metallifried" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote in
news:1115655700.954612.160070@o13g2000cwo.googlegr oups.com:

> I plan on wearing the same thing
> for every race I do from here on out.
>
>

Hopefully those plans don't include a half or full iron distance race. That
wet chamois will get really old on a 56 or 112 mile bike. An then there's
the run.

05-09-2005, 06:35 PM

"metallifried" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote in
news:1115655700.954612.160070@o13g2000cwo.googlegr oups.com:

> This weekend I did my first tri -

Congrats, and welcome to the fold, by the way!

05-10-2005, 09:20 AM

Not to gross anyone out, but in my experience if it's a hot day the the
chamois is pretty wet by the time I've been riding my bike for half an
hour anyway.

You're right, though - my plans don't include a half-iron until next
season, or even the season after. But by then I will have gotten to
test it out a couple times at the international distance, and I can
easily do a few training sessions that include biking 50+ miles
starting out in wet shorts, so if it stops working I'll figure
something else out.

05-10-2005, 09:34 AM

botfood wrote:
> make sure the shorts have fairly thin fleecy synthetic chamois, and
> you'll be fine. one thing though is to make sure they have a
drawstring
> rather than just elastic so they dont slip down while swimming.

Some of us use our "glutes" instead of a draw string. ; )

rsquared

05-11-2005, 07:54 AM

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