Wetsuit weirdness

[andygates]

Season-hired Foor suit from TriUK arrives in the post. Happy me, dead quick, something expensive and fragile I can destroy! Or train in. Honest. Okay, it took me two goes to get it on and took bloomin' ages, but I was expecting that. Comes off quicker than my dive suit ;)

Why is it that the suit that looked like an X-men uniform on the stall, doesn't look like an X-men uniform but more like a weirdly-moulded action figure in the flesh, but in photos looks like a black pudding with my head on top? Enquiring minds need to know! And no, those photos won't be going anywhere except /.trash!

Comments

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

It's probably a reflectiveness issue. Also, possibly your powers have come in and you're Black Pudding Boy: see whether you can spit corrosive digestive acids at people.

[(Anonymous)]

Great. I'm savoury but slightly unsettling.

[skean.livejournal.com]

Wetsuits. One of the most unflattering pieces of anyone's wardrobe.

Thanks to your inspiration, I have taken the plunge (metawotsically) and entered the Zuri Tri on 1st July. "Short" distance: 500m/20km/5km. Individually, they all seem OK...

Have also found a place that hires new suits for £40 for a week, so will do that for Zuri. Off tonight to buy the Allez (resisting temptation for aero bars and 78 degree angle), then to the pool.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

That's the same distance as the coming Bude one.

(TriUK do season wetsuit hire for £25, from now until September...)

You need toys. You know you do!

[skean.livejournal.com]

But I may not need a wetsuit. I'm only allowed to wear one if the lake temperature is under 21.9 degrees. And last year I was comfortably wake boarding in board shorts in September.

I will need one for the London docks though, so will have to sort something out.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

For one event I'd lend you mine but it'll be a wee bit big..! What's the London event then?

[skean.livejournal.com]

London Tri. Ant and I are doing the Olympic distance. Nick S. was meant to be doing it with us (he started did a Tri last year some time), but has sciatica (trapped nervce in back thing) so won't be joining us.

I think Ant has one coming up with PDSP as well in the next few weeks.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

1.5 km, 40 km, 10 km. Good work. I was planning on working up to one of those next year!

Xeeny, I think, is doing Burnham with the DSPs and will doubtless be distressingly competitive.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Crikey. You could swim the Hellespont for that distance. How very Byronic.

[skean.livejournal.com]

Now there's a real Iron Man - Swim the Hellespoint, cycle to Constantinople and back, then run the original Marathon. Naked of course

[andygates.livejournal.com]

I humbly posit the allowance of some classical tri shorts at least. After an open-water swim I couldn't bear the giggles from bystanders otherwise.

You know, you really shouldn't suggest things like that. I can't get the bloody Hellespont out of my head now. Like riding the bike from place to place, I like this "going from somewhere to somewhere else" thing. It does funny things to my perception of space that numbers of miles or lengths or reps don't. Hmm. Start with getting my technique nailed, I think...