Subject: RE: Shortest Distance for Wetsuit? Just to be a nerd about it... and given that you say the water is warm enough (for you) to not wear one: First, you need to have an idea of how much faster you swim with a wetsuit vs without one (better swimmers don't have as big of an improvement as somebody like me that needs all the help they can get). Next, get an idea of how much time it costs you to get the wetsuit off and thrown somewhere in transition. If they have wetsuit peelers and you get the top down to your waist as you get out of the water, that can be a very short amount of time. Assuming the time savings is greater than the extra time to remove the wetsuit, the other factors are your tolerance for cold water and your comfort with a wetsuit. Took me a long time and many wetsuit swims before I got used to that constricting feeling of a wetsuit. In other words, it depends! |