I'm fat, I tri and I'm mad!! (Page 2)

i'd have to disagree.  i ordered a few things from there excited that they go up to a size 20/22 and nothing fits as advertised.  i think that if you are a curvy girl on the bottom, you have to go up a size. my friend that is more straight up and down fits into their size great - but she's very proportional.  not hippy or busty.

another suggestion for where to get plus sized stuff - ebay!  i just got a xxl women's tri suit nwt for $30.  not quite the cute stuff with sayings, but brand new and it fits perfectly.  i would have paid a lot more for that suit in the store - over $100. 

Well, I can buy guys cycling shorts, but jerseys?  Forget it.  No matter how big I get them, they roll up from the bottom, cause they are built for a person with a gut not hips.  

When the thing is designed to fit snugly over the stomach and stay there - it rolls up like a demon when you try to get it to stay on your hips.

I've given up on men's jersey's and now go for XXL women's cut. Usually Terry since they are about the only ones out there that make a true women's jersey in XL and larger. 

I figure I've saved TONS of money at expos for just this reason.

Last tri I got a girly headband and a bicycle chain bracelet.  I really wanted one of their cute jersey's but...  oh well, I saved like $70. 

I had a rude awakening this week. I wanted a cycling jersey and I found 3x and they didn't go over my shoulders. I wear 2x in all my cloths and a 3x wont wit over my shoulders. I was crushed for a minute but now I am just aiming at getting smaller. The man at the bike store just said "well I guess you need to lose weight" I can't argue, but it was hard to hear. Nothing in this sport fits me and I don't guess I will find anything anytime soon.

When I went to the April IM Arizona I walked around the expo and people looked at me like I was the plague. That was the deffining moment that sling shot me into Triathlons. I will be an Ironman with or without there skinny people cloths. All that matters is that I am an Ironman. And I would much rather be a Clydesdale than a twig.

Frankly, that disappoints me more than anything I have seen so far in this thread of information exchange.  I am so sorry that someone was that insensitive to you and I hope you provide this bike shop information to the rest of us, I don't want to shop somewhere that says things that may be hurtful.  Just because you are big, doesn't mean you aren't healthy. 

 I encourage you to visit my blog:  http://healthatmysize.wordpress.com/  This is where i talk and write about struggles with issues related to size...because I don't fit the mold.  The assumption that it is "easy" to just lose weight is what gets me.  People, 95 - 98% of people who diet end up gaining that weight back.  I am not saying I don't want to somehow, magically be smaller, but this is a bigger issue than that! 

Try Terry for cycling shirts:  http://www.terrybicycles.com/detail.html?item_no=1966&c=Plus

I never spoke on the phone with 2XU World HQ. With the time difference and long distance charges, I thought email and fax would suffice.

I reliaze  every company and every product has issues. In my mind, it is how they deal with these issues that is important.  I feel that knowing they had a defect in manufacturing, they should have sent me a new suit so that I could continue to train. The least they could have done would have been to acknowledge my complaint.

At this point my 10 training days are history. Nobody at 2XU can give me those days back. So the case is closed in my opinion. I love the wetsuit. I just don't think 2XU stood up like they should have.

Brent

Anyone heard of any of the following companies for tri wet suits.....reviews and comments needed.

 www. wetsuitwarehouse.com

www.wetsuit.com (promotion wetsuits)

By the way, I am going to try on a wetsuit today.  I feel like I am going to vomit from nerves, but I figure, I gotta somehow figure this out.  Read about it:

http://healthatmysize.wordpress.com/

An XL for a size 14 woman? So what size would the size 16-18s be? I'm 5'11" and weigh 200lbs. Ok, a lot of that is muscle, as I'm a UK 14-16, but c'MON! The XL is 160lbs+

No kidding.

I just bought my first pair of tri-shorts.  They are mens.

They have about a 10" inseam which is nice, supportive and not so incidentally, covers a lot of the  "thigh jiggle."

WTH is UP with ALL women's tri-shorts w/ inseam of 3" to 5"?  Looked at a couple of sites with 2X or XXL women's sizes, which would fit my booty - but there is No Way I am going to run around in a 3" inseam.  

Sometimes... I just really wonder what the women's athletic clothing designers are thinking.  Not everyone wants to run around in something that exposes every possible inch of skin. 

I concur!  I can't recommend a shop in your local area but get the heck out of there and do not spend your money in that store.  I'd report the comment to ownership as well.  Dude, you're an IRONMAN!  And personally I would have looked at him and told him so.  That is something to be enormously proud of.

I went through my own struggle last weekend trying to find a tri shirt  and just decided to go with a regular cycling jersey which, oddly is a Pearl Izumi and fits fairly loosely.  I am loosing weight so I don't want to invest in a full tri suit yet but hoping to next season so it's swimsuit with cycling shorts/jersey over it for my aquabike this weekend.  Not ideal but it'll work. 

Could I please go shopping with you? I can only ever find 6-8" inseam shorts. I actually WANT the 4" ones.

I've totally been where the size 14-18s here are. I"m 5'9" and at one time weighed 200. It was really hard to find stuff to wear running, wear on the bike, etc. It all looked like sausage casing.

Now that I dropped 50#, I am still 5'9", broad-shouldered, and STILL do not fit in some of the gear. This was VERY disappointing to say the least. I always thought, hey, when I'm done losing this, I can wear all the great stuff! Ha! Nike will probably never get my business. Most of their size L women's garments look and fit like they're for a large-ish 2nd grader. And the problem is not 'the girls' - I am kindly described as 'aerodynamic' -  the shirt just doesn't go all the way around. Still lookin' like a sausage casing.

Now I know I'm larger than the average 5'4" woman, but sheesh. Can't even a skinny big girl get a break?

To the poster who got told by the LBS that they should lose weight: Ya shoulda said, "OK, I guess I'll just go naked until then. " See what the moron says to that!!! What on freakin' earth was that clerk thinking????

Also - regarding the new company that had limited sizes - New companies have to be very careful when just starting out, otherwise they become that company that went under.  Manufacturers do have minimum orders, usually in the dozens, and frequently do have lines of styles with limited sizes. A company has to guess what will sell and spend limited funds accordingly. If you've only got the $$ to buy 4 dozen shirts, and need to turn them over in 60 days to have the cash to pay for them, should they buy tried and true s-m-l-xl, or gamble on m-l-xl-xxl ...or what? They play it safe. Unless the company is specifically marketing toward the larger of us, they will target who they think will buy the shirts. It is too much of a gamble for small companies to have that deep of sizes in stock. Too much $$ invested at once.  If they discover that they can sell the bigger sizes, they'll keep ordering them. So keep asking, eventually you'll get their attention.

Run Chicago told me they have some plus size running stuff in.  Check it out.  I'll be there tomorrow!!

 http://healthatmysize.wordpress.com/run-chigago-says-come-on-down/

Wear a sports bra if you have a chest.  I'm a 36D and I have to wear a more supportive sports bra underneath.  The ones in the tri top are more like the self bras you find in tank tops.  They don't really hold anything up or offer much support. 

Thanks for the info.  Any suggestions for a sports bra that dries quickly and does not cause drag during the swim?  I am a 38C.  Earlier in July, I had found an underarmor bra that fit great but was not sure how it would work for the swim portion so I had returned it but now I wish I had kept it even to use for run training.

I just ordered a XL danskin tri top and sugoi tri shorts  (XL men's 7.5"from REI.com who had their tri clothing on sale.  I am 185lbs and wear a 14/16 on top and I wear a 16/18 on the bottom half I was able to try on the shorts since they are the same as my husband owns.  I probably could have gone with the large but figured if I really did not like them once I got them and tried them for training, I could give them to my husband and then can hope to either pick up the larges in the store or online. 

I know that I posted to another thread but I do own a JAM trisuit (made for women but come in pastel colors) which is a large and fits great even though they say size L is for 12/14.  I do love it because it offers all the support I need - no jiggle or bounce - so no need for a sports bra.   It is next to impossible to get in and out of when you are wet.  Thank goodness I did not have to go to the bathroom until after the sprint tri was over.

I wear a Champion C9 bra that I got at Target.  You can get the normal kind in the sports department or they have sized ones with more support in the bra department.  I've used both and they all dry pretty quickly or drag much.  I know other people really recommend the Moving Comfort bras.