Race Day Equipment Checklist Calculator

The calculator treats bike gear (helmet, shoes) and swim gear (wetsuit and related essentials) as the closest things to mandatory race-day equipment, so it specifically counts shortfalls in those two categories — 5 minus your bike items ready, plus any swim shortfall below 3. A missing race belt or nutrition item lowers your overall readiness score but won't appear in this critical count, even though it can still cost you time or comfort.

It totals the items you've marked ready across all five categories — swim, bike, run, transition, nutrition — out of 21 possible items, then expresses that as a percentage. Each category also gets its own percentage calculated the same way against its own item count, so you can see whether a low overall score is driven by one weak category or spread evenly across several.

The calculator doesn't track individual gear items, only how many items you've checked off within each category, so it applies a single average weight and price per category — for example, 400g and $400 per "bike item," meant to represent things like a helmet or shoes on average. That makes the totals useful for rough travel-weight and insurance-replacement planning, but not an itemized accounting of any specific piece of gear.

No — this checklist reflects general triathlon gear categories, not any single race's official mandatory equipment list. Requirements like wetsuit legality by water temperature or helmet certification standards vary by event and governing body, so always cross-check your packed gear against your specific race's athlete guide before race day.