{"id":161,"date":"2009-06-20T12:09:17","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T12:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/?p=161"},"modified":"2009-06-20T12:09:17","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T12:09:17","slug":"madness-of-tri-kit-sizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"Madness of tri kit sizing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well I thought I would comment on the oddness of the sizing of tri kit. A number of weeks ago I went shopping for a new set of race kit. I prefer tri tops and tri shorts to a trisuit.<\/p>\n<p>In the end I tried on both Orca and 2XU gear. It turns out that for the Orca 226 range I need a LARGE tri tank and a MEDIUM tri pant. However for 2XU Endurance kit I need a MEDIUM 3 pocket tri top and a LARGE tri short.<\/p>\n<p>It is no wonder that I cannot get a trisuit to fit me properly. What is also confusing is that I have an Orca tri top from another range which is a MEDIUM.<\/p>\n<p>I have decided that unless I have previous experience of a particular make and model of kit I will hence forth be buying my kit from a real shop that allows you to try it on. I have gotten incredibly frustrated with getting various sizes of kit sent to me from online retailers only to have to return them.<\/p>\n<p>Where possible I intend to visit <a title=\"Bike and Run, East Finchley\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bikeandrun.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bike and Run<\/a>, which is based in East Finchley, London, for my tri kit needs. They were most helpful and patient during my fitting session. They have a decent selection of gear in stock &#8211; wetsuits, tri kit, cycling kit, bikes and various gadgets, gizmos and tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well I thought I would comment on the oddness of the sizing of tri kit. A number of weeks ago I went shopping for a new set of race kit. I prefer tri tops and tri shorts to a trisuit. In the end I tried on both Orca and 2XU gear. It turns out that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[41,58],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chit-chat","category-gear-n-gadgets","tag-fitting","tag-kit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}