Race clothing for Half Ironman

There was another post on this same topic a few days ago...short answer is it's up to you...but I don't think "most" change; some do, but my observations is most do not...certainly not anyone looking to turn in a top time.

Personally, I find my tri shorts or tri suit to be more comfortable with less chafing than running shorts. Also, taking time to change is just wasting time, in my opinion....even a "quick change" will cost you at least 60 seconds, if not more depending upon changing tent location and congestion. If you are less concerned about time and more comfortable changing, then by all means do it. 

I apply Body Glide to all of my "areas" before a race and before any run longer than a few miles. Between that and insuring you have high quality, well fitting race clothes, you should have no comfort issues. (You should also do some training runs and brick workouts in your race gear so race day is not the first time you wear it.)

Oliver transition has change tents:

http://www.outbackevents.ca/Oliver%20Half%20Web%20Site/images/Course%20Info/09%20Transition.pdf

Well lookie there. Change away!

I never changed for either halves or full.  Tri shorts don't chafe at all, I prefer running in them.

Trishorts all the way!

Tri shorts are designed to fit comfortably on the ride and the run.  If yours don't, you may have an ill fitting pair.  You have plenty of time, I'd try out different styles and brands.

Why waste precious transition time changing if you don't have to? 

I would say just stay in the tri shorts, that is what they are made for.  In the longer distances with running shorts you may get more chache due to loose clothing...I know i did when I wore running shorts during my last marathon...never happend when I had tri shorts on.

For my HIMs I had a one piece tri suit that I wore the whole time, plus a wetsuit on the swim for one of them, was required to have one.

I will be using the one piece for sprints/olympic this season and a two piece suit for the HIM.

 I'm doing this event!!  I won't be utilizing the change tents though :p

Anything else is frivolous.

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Pics or it didn't happen. 

Speedo'd my first half.  That was the same day I found out what a tri short was.

If only there was a website we could go to and ask newb questions about triathlon

Ouchy, but I'll bet you were cute. 

Some guy did this for an HIM around here. He'd obviously been training in longer shorts up to that point and also wore compression socks for the race. It cannot be unseen.