Originally Posted by
TXRunner78
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Now I have a decision to make about the swim. No doubt swimming is my weakest of the three. If it is wetsuit optional, I think I am going to go with a wetsuite still and start in that last group. If it's hot outside, I will go with lava shorts. I am just that much faster with some assistance in keeping my legs up. Because of the arm and shoulder strength I have built up through the years of playing and coaching baseball, give me a pull buoy and I will go for days. So the thought process is that if I can at least use lava shorts, despite starting in the last group, I will probably finish quicker than if I swam with just my tri suite.
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Yes, wear a wet-suit if it is wet-suit legal, otherwise lava shorts. The lava shorts will help with body position and reduce the effort you need to put out in the swim. My advice for a front of the pack swimmer, would be different. Today I was doing my swim workout, the guy next to me was mixing up using a pull bouy and not using it. He was probably a 1:40-1:50 per 100 yard swimmer. The difference in his body position and what I perceived as the effort he was putting out was much better with the pull bouy than w/o it.