Hey, what's up everybody and welcome back to That Triathlon Show, the podcast presented by

Scientific Triathlon.com. I'm your host, Michael, and this episode is beginner tip 13, where I'll

talk about gear that you absolutely do not need to buy when you're new to triathlon.

For many, triathlon may seem like a very, very cost prohibitive sport, and yes, it isn't cheap,

but there are a lot of things that you may read about in magazines and that your friends buy

and say they think are absolutely necessary.

That really is just a waste of money when you're just

starting out. And that is the perspective that we'll take, of course, since this is a beginner

tip. Some of the things that I'll list are absolutely brilliant investments a bit later.

Once you've been in the sport for a while, you've become an intermediate athlete and

you're committed to improving. So I'm by no means bashing all of these items. I'm just saying

that for you as a beginner, your money is better spent elsewhere, whether it's in triathlon or

outside of it. So let's start with the swim.

This is fortunately a cheap discipline, but that doesn't prevent companies from pushing out

all sorts of tools and toys to buy, so you could spend a lot of money on it if you wanted

to.

What you definitely don't need are things like a swim heart rate monitor, that's pretty useless in my opinion, and you don't need are things like a swim heart rate monitor that's pretty useless in my opinion and you don't

need a new watch to be able to monitor to measure your swims the only thing that you may need to

measure in your swim training are interval splits and times and you can do that by using the pace clock that you'll find

on the wall of most swimming pools or if they happen to not have it then just bring an old

simple alarm watch to the side of the pool to the end of the pool basically and put it there

so that you can see

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