When I come out of the pool and go home, I take out my suit to hand on and dry, and get ready to pull something else out, my wallet, and everything and they are all sopping wet! I always wring out my suits before I put em in but they still end up very very very wet. Anyone know how to avoid this?
Former Member
The health club I belong to has a machine called something like a swimsuit extractor. It is similar in concept to machines that coin-op laundry places have.
The basic concept is you place your suit in the extractor cylinder and start the extractor. It spins around really quickly and extracts or wrings the water from your suit. It doesn't fully dry your suit but it gets rid of lots of excess water so it isn't sopping wet.
Then I place my suit in the little plastic bags the health club also has on hand and everything in my backpack stays dry.
If you don't have access to the extractor then make sure you bring along a big freezer bag, the ziplock type and use that. Some gym bags also have a separate compartment that is basically a plastic bag that you can use for a suit, which keeps the other sections of the bag dry.
So those are a couple options for ya.
Former Member
You can wash and dry your suit as you want.
this is not for full suit (long legs and arms) expecialy for speedo.
Afetr race have you shower (without soap) with your suite.
Some long suite (speedo and diana) as got a material that go aut every time you get wet it.
Former Member
Get a speedo back pack bag. I love mine :D Has a sepeate pocket for your suit with a mesh front. So incase you forget to take your suits out, they'll eventually dry and not get moldy.
Former Member
I wash mine in cold water after I swim, hand sqeeze it, wrap it in my towel which soaks up excess water, pack it in a plastic bag. When I get home I hang it over the shower rack, it is dry the very shortly.
George
Former Member
Don't wring your suit. It'll wear out much faster.
Some places have a suit spinner as mentioned earlier.
My pool has that, but I don't mess with it. I just wrap my suit in my towel and put it in my gym bag. At most, the outer surface of the towel wad gets damp by the time I get home, but I don't keep anything in my bag that I don't mind getting damp.
Maybe you just need to reorganize how you carry stuff. If you must keep your wallet in the same container as your wet suit, then consider wrapping it in your towel first. (If you don't bring a towel because your pool provides them, well may you just need to take a towel anyway specifically for that purpose!) You could also take a large zip-lock bag, or even just a plastic supermarket bag to put the suit/towel-wad into.
Maybe I'm missing something, but this doesn't seem like a problem you can't easily overcome.
Former Member
hey y'all, if you've never tried this trick, you've got a thrill comin. Lay a towel out on a bench lengthwise with the sides of the towel draped equally on both sides of the bench. Lay your long suit on the towel lengthwise (don't wring it out first). Bend up the the sides of the towel, one on top of the other so that you've got successive layers of towel, suit, towel, and towel. Next you begin and continue making a tight roll from one end to the other, kinda like rolling a snow ball, but putting all your weight on it. Y'all'll find the wetness distributing itself from the suit to the towel's texture very evenly and never to drip when you hang it up. By the time you've driven home the suit might even be dry if it gets separated from the towel and, as they say in Cincinnati, "let it".
