FROM THE EDITOR...
Ever since having all my luggage go AWOL on a trip to Morocco and spending a week in the desert in the same kit (don’t ask), I’ve always been a bit nervous about travelling with loads of stuff… So you can probably imagine how I felt when we headed to Lanzarote with 24 new season wetsuits (some even early samples not yet in production), 20 tri-suits and 10 sets of open-water goggles all crammed into our suitcases! It was worth the nail-biting wait at baggage reclaim though, as we had the chance to thoroughly test everything in open water and in conditions as close to race day as possible. So over the next couple of issues, we bring you our definitive guide to the kit you should be racing in during 2017. Enjoy! Helen webster, editor