So if you didn’t know, I have a triathlon on Sunday.\u00a0 And we’re getting hit by the remnants of Andrea.\u00a0 No major storms, just a lot of rain, from what I understand.<\/p>\n
Sunday should be nice enough though, so I’m not too worried.\u00a0 There is a chance that tomorrow’s practice open water swim will get cancelled, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed.<\/p>\n
However, all this rain means that the water could be a bit cooler than normal.<\/p>\n
Now, it’s only a quarter mile swim.\u00a0 It’s not that far.\u00a0 Less than 15 minutes and I’ll be done (I don’t actually know how long it will take me to do 400 meters, because I have never just done 400 – I always swim more, lowering my average pace).\u00a0 So it seems silly to wear a wetsuit if it’s not going to be that cold.\u00a0 I’m choosing to not worry about it.<\/p>\n
Of course, I’m a professional panicker, so I had to consider a wetsuit anyway.\u00a0 I bought one from Xterra.\u00a0 I wanted a sleeveless wetsuit.\u00a0 Seemed simple enough.\u00a0 I went with the women’s XL.<\/p>\n
Now, I know wetsuits are supposed to fit tightly, but this one wasn’t happening.\u00a0 I managed to get it over my hips, but when I pulled it up to my chest, I just started laughing.\u00a0 This thing was not going to cover my chest whatsoever.\u00a0 “The girls” were going to end up squished outside of the arm holes (sorry, guys).<\/p>\n
Clearly, it’s getting returned.<\/p>\n
But now what do I do?\u00a0 I checked out Xterra’s site, and they said that if a women’s XL is too small, go to a men’s size, but not in the sleeveless, because those won’t work on women.<\/p>\n
So I guess I flip brands (I went with them due to a team discount).\u00a0 But do any other curvy girls out there have suggestions?\u00a0 Are there companies who make triathlon wetsuits for bigger women?<\/p>\n
And if there aren’t, who wants to start one with me?\u00a0 We need more good gear for bigger girls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So if you didn’t know, I have a triathlon on Sunday.\u00a0 And we’re getting hit by the remnants of Andrea.\u00a0 No major storms, just a lot of rain, from what I understand. Sunday should be nice enough though, so I’m not too worried.\u00a0 There is a chance that tomorrow’s practice open water swim will get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[115,112],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n