I want to start swimming before class in the morning. The pool is at my school and I do not want to go home afterwards as I can shower there at the gym and change. What should I do with my wet bathing suit all day? I can leave it in a locker at the gym or leave it in my car. I’d rather not have to go back to the gym after school just to get my suit in order to bring it home, but leaving it in a locker all day and night seems like a bad idea.
I can’t think of a place at school to let it drip dry. Obviously I would wring it out as best as possible after cleaning it from the chlorine. But then what?
Another vote for the ‘roll it up in a towel’ tip. Altho I deal with salt water rather than fresh, it’s the same principal.
A good diver knows you tend to your equipment before yourself (dunking said equipment in the hotel tub to soak and rinse off saltwater, which will destroy anything it touches over time) and that includes your swim togs.
I have three different tank suits I use and all of them, despite my care, show signs of salt water/tropical sun damage. That and they’re el Wal-mart cheapos. Spend $100 for a suit that’s gonna suffer all of the above? No way.
Get a $20 one and buy several of them at a time. Save the designer stuff for lazing around the vacation pool, not the workout pool.
The same towel method described above. After you’ve wrung it out wrap it in the towel and store in your gym bag for the day. When you get home hang it to finish drying. If you’re worried about it getting musty rinse it again when you get home and hang it to dry although if you do that you might need a second suit to swim every day.
I usually just take mine home and toss it in the dryer on tumble dry, air only. No heat, so it shouldn’t damage the suit, and it’s dry a lot quicker than it would be otherwise. Also, I throw it into a ziploc in my gym bag so it doesn’t get everything else wet.
I’ll just repeat myself, too, and say you really don’t have to ever dry your swim suit. Just rinse it thoroughly, wring it out, and put it in a zip lock bag until you return to the gym. (Dry it at home, if you must.)
It’s ridiculous to insist upon donning a dry swimsuit when you’re just about to jump in water.
As a woman who wears a 1 piece swimsuit; yuck and no way. Trying to pull on a wet or even damp suit sucks. Wring it out, roll it in a towel, hang it up when you get home. Buy 2 or 3 and rotate so they can dry out.