Expert buying guides and reviews for triathlon gear and equipment. From wetsuits and swim goggles to turbo trainers, running shoes, and GPS watches — find the right kit for your training and racing at every budget.
Both shoes launched within months of each other as their brands’ newest marathon-pace racing platforms, and both will show up on the run leg of plenty of races in 2026. Off the bike with tired legs is a different test than a standalone marathon, so the differences between these two — stack height, foam response,…
Both are flagship, sprint-focused road shoes from brands that dominate triathlon bike setups, but they solve the same problem — maximum power transfer with a genuinely secure fit — in different ways. Here’s how the Ares 2’s twin-BOA sprint shoe compares to the S-PHYRE RC9’s stiffness-first approach. At a Glance Specialized S-Works Ares 2 —…
Giro sells two very different aero helmets under a confusingly similar name. The Aerohead MIPS is the brand’s long-running road-focused aero lid, built to be worn for an entire race including climbs. The Aerohead II is a purpose-built time trial and triathlon helmet, developed with Team Visma-Lease a Bike and wind-tunnel tested with Jonas Vingegaard…
Both suits are built for the same job — non-drafting, middle and long-distance racing where every watt of drag matters — but they get there in different ways. Castelli’s PR 3 replaces the PR 2 as the brand’s flagship, while Zone3’s Aeroforce-X II was developed with aero specialists NoPinz and wind-tunnel tested at the Boardman…
What to Look For The stock insole in most running shoes is thin, generic and designed to keep cost down rather than to actually support your foot. For triathletes specifically, that matters more than it does for a casual runner: your running form on the brick run is already compromised by 90+ minutes on the…
What to Look For Your mini pump and CO2 canister are for roadside punctures — a proper track (floor) pump is what you actually use at home, every week, to top up tyre pressure before a ride. Road and tri bike tyres lose a few PSI just sitting overnight, and riding under-inflated is both slower…
What to Look For A swim skin is a thin, non-neoprene race suit for the swim leg — it exists for the races where water is too warm for wetsuits to be legal (most governing bodies set a cutoff somewhere around 24.5-25.9°C depending on distance and category), but you still want less drag than swimming…
What to Look For A turbo trainer mat does three jobs at once: it protects your floor from the static indentation and rubber marks a stationary bike leaves behind, it dampens vibration and noise (a genuine concern if you’re training in a flat or an upstairs room), and it catches the sweat that inevitably ends…
What to Look For Tall socks in the pro peloton aren’t just a style statement — a sock with a taller cuff changes the airflow pattern around your lower leg and can measurably reduce drag versus bare skin or an ankle sock, particularly at the speeds you’re holding on a flat time trial or triathlon…
What to Look For A good triathlon wetsuit has to do two contradictory things at once: hold your hips and legs up near the surface for a flatter, faster body position, while still letting your shoulders rotate freely through thousands of strokes. Getting that balance right comes down to neoprene grade and where it’s placed…
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