| Triathlon suits are normally wet suits. Nonetheless, | | | | between you and the racer running before and after |
| they are matters of personal choice. Anyone can | | | | you.The loss of heat in water are dependent on |
| choose their suits according to their best judgements | | | | several variables including the total mass of the |
| and no one can restrict them from doing so. But | | | | person's body, a person's physical exertion, the |
| whatever freedom is given to the racers, they still | | | | materials used in creating the triathlon suit and the |
| must choose what is ideal to them.Being the type of | | | | temperature of the surrounding water itself.The ideal |
| suit that provides most of the advantages in using | | | | triathlon suit, or any wet suit for that matter, is one |
| the principle of cold and heat absorption, wet suits | | | | that is made of three layers. The outer protective |
| seem to rank top among all choices.But not all wet | | | | layer, the insulation layer and the wicking layer.The |
| suits are alike. There are those that were specifically | | | | outer protective layer is obviously the one that coats |
| designed for SCUBA diving, surfing and those that | | | | the whole of the suit. The more popular material |
| are perfect for triathlon races.From the suit's simplest | | | | used for this is the neoprene. This works well yet |
| form, they have undoubtedly morphed into varying | | | | very delicate that simple scratches may actually |
| classifications that optimize the use of wet and cold | | | | cause the suit to get serious damages.The insulation |
| system.Basic physics tell us that heat transfers from | | | | layer, on the other hand, appears in many varieties. |
| a hot object towards a colder one. This law is so | | | | The most usual choices include wooly bear, open-cell |
| simple that you can bet it and argue otherwise 'til | | | | foam, type-B marine thinsulate, and radiant |
| your wit's end. No triathlon suit can prevent the | | | | barriers.The wicking material acts as the absorber of |
| exchange of cold and heat. After all, that is not the | | | | skin's moisture thus keeping the racers' skin dry. |
| work they were intended to do. However, many are | | | | When the body is wet, it looses much heat than |
| so entirely engineered to make as much delay of the | | | | normal. The wicking layer of the skin prevents this |
| heat transfer as physical science would allow.It is | | | | from occurring.This content is provided by Low |
| critical for a triathlon swimmer to preserve as much | | | | Jeremy and may be used only in its entirety with all |
| heat as his suit will allow because delay (even by a | | | | links included. |
| second or two) can create a large discrepancy | | | | |