Another new person question - equipment

[KnottedYet]

If you go to the Danskin Tri site, it answers a lot of your questions (in the general sense.)

I have a kayaking wetsuit by NRS that I bought at Northwest Outdoor Center for $110.

I don't have a trisuit. I swim in my sportsbra and a pair of UnderArmor compression shorts (aka underwear) under my wetsuit. Good open-water goggles are a must! When I finish the swim I go back to my bike and bag of stuff, take off the wetsuit, put on my bike skort (over the underwear) and my team tank-top (over the bra) my socks and my bike shoes. Add helmet and gloves and glasses.

If you don't put your wetsuit back into your bag, you will p.o. all the other racers who are trying to get to their bags and having to climb over all your stuff. They will have to push it out of their way. I did not put my wetsuit INTO my bag last year. I left it ON TOP of my bag. My suit ended up quite far away.

After the ride, I come back to the exact same spot and take off the bike stuff, re-rack the bike, put on shoes and baseball cap, and do the run.

All your things are in one assigned spot, and you just keep going back to the same spot between legs to switch gear ("Transitions) so you don't carry anything with you while you are racing.

I'm thinking of doing the Subaru Tri too, cuz so many of my friends didn't get into the Danskin and are doing the Subaru instead. It's a month or so after the Danskin. I should be recovered by then....