Hi Marca,

Denise gave you great advice. About the wetsuit--so far I've done Oly distance in a fairly warm lake, and sprints in pools in which wetsuits are not allowed. In the fairly warm lake, I wear a light and flexible wetsuit with short legs and no sleeves. Basically, it's a cover-up for my running bra and tri shorts. In the pool sprints, I wear a tri suit (Sugoi, from the TE site) over my bra. When it's cold out, I pull on warmer clothes over it for the bike and run; when it's warm out, I still pull on a t-shirt because of modesty, and to hide my belly! If it's reallly hot, well, to heck with what anybody thinks of my belly, I'm a TRIATHLETE!

You go for it! OH how I wish I'd known about this site before I did my first tri. What a lot of help it would have been. When's your first race? Lise