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What's the best way to tuck in a sleeved Tri suit underneath a skin suit or sleeveless wetsuit?
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On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 4:31 PM John Withrow <
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> I think you just wear it underneath and don't tuck it anywhere... I
> don't think the sleeves create much (if any) drag. And the wetsuit or
> speedsuit would cover any rear pockets that the tri suit might have...
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As to leaving the sleeves down - I would simply suggest you do some testing in the pool to see whether the sleeves live up to the manufacturer claims (aka @JohnWithrow) or slow you down, and repeat that test because tri-suits do not maintain their compressive properties over time (nor do swimskins). And the more I'm in the sport and read about independent tests, the less I'm inclined to believe that swimskins are even an advantage compared to a well fitting, new or relatively new sleeveless - one piece - trisuit. My own personal metric now is to wear a good one piece sleeveless kit for warm water swims, and only use a sleeved tri-suit when the swim is wetsuit legal. So while I have picked up a couple of swim skins over the years, I have no intention of ever buying another unless there is some ridiculous breakthrough that is backed by convincing and independent evidence.
I had terrible damaging sunburn on my shoulders a few years back and wear the sleeved shirt mostly for sun protection.
I'm surprised to hear you say you don't think the sleeves on a tri-top would add drag if they were not underneath a wetsuit @John Withrow , I assumed they would, but haven't tested it. I guess I'll have to do some testing.
My guess is that there is very little, if any statistical significance... In an ideal test, all of your 500yd sets of the same setup (i.e. swim skin with sleeved tri suit under it) are all within a couple of seconds of each other. AND this time is significantly different than say a different setup (i.e. swim skin with no shirt underneath). Good Luck. There's probably enough variation in most of our pathetic triathlete "non-swimmer" 500's under ideal and similar conditions that the data will be pretty hard to interpret.
BUT, even if you find that you're say 5 seconds faster per 500 with no tri top under it than with one, that's still only ~40 seconds in an IM swim. Then subtract how long it would take you to put on a tri top on a wet body (or even just pull one up) and you're probably down to somewhere in the 10-20 second advantage. I get that for "some" people ~20 seconds might be the difference between a KQ or not a KQ, but that differential "might" be like 1-2 people per year in all of Ironman. I sure as hell hope that one person is not me...
However, "If" the difference for you is more like 5 seconds per 100yds, then we're talking about ~3 mins for an IM swim and that would ABSOLUTELY be worth it for me to change something.