Before the swim, trauma in the dressing room

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“ don’t understand how I’m supposed to swim 4.4 miles after putting on one of these things.”

That was my exasperated verdict after struggling to smush into a wet suit — the third I had tried on at a local triathlon store. I was looking to buy one for the Great Chesapeake Bay Swim in June.

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