That’s a real confidence booster. Shows that the big biking is holding that run base nice and high still. Just layer on the speed endurance on top then.
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I only said ‘might’ 
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Yeah, 27th in your AG, IIRC.
I didn’t like him; even before he said 1:10 was middle of the pack. Pff.
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One thing I noticed when we moved to the UK was how much further up the pack I was after the swim. I hadn’t improved my times at all but there were a lot more bikes in T1 than I was used to seeing compared to Oz.
I was confused 
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Indeed! And the big biking never feels like training at all as I do that purely for the fun, enjoyment and exploring!
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It depends on exactly what sort of coaching you going to get and your ability to fix any issues raised.
Ive had a few 1-2-1 coaching sessions and it has helped massively. I went from practically a non swimmer to sub 6 400m.
If someone can view your stroke, see what can be improved and give you an easy way to fix them then yes it would help a lot
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Sorry, it was more rhetorical. I’m not actually expecting anything major. But actually swimming, and with someone giving feedback is only doing to be a positive. I swam like 4 times last year. Before that it was maybe once in 3 years.
I’m not going to make it every week. But any week I do go is a bonus.
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Is that Sidmouth sess in the sea or in a pool?
Pool swim. But i think the tri club there do OW sessions as well in the summer. But i won’t bother with those. I don’t need to do that with a bunch of people when i have a beach 1.5kms from the house
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Bustinskin do a midweek aquathlon series in Weymouth on a Wednesday evening starting 1st June, I sometimes shoot down and do them.
Apparently people from Devon are allowed to enter, but they have to be body searched at the border to make sure not smuggling anything in 
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Yeah, but that’s even more swimming! 
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That’s Sandbagging par excellence 
My fastest was 1:03 at Wales. That was just through swimming OW 3, 4 times a week. Nothing specific, just swam the distance, and further. One half race and a swim run where we swam 8k in total I think… Like you I think I’m just a one speed swimmer. Even not doing all that I’d be round in about 1:15/ 1:25 which I think is probably more ‘mid pack’ and not a disaster
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LOL but there’s a run too
Edit - what?? Google reckons 1h 33 drive ??? The roads round SW are ridiculous
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Oh at least - that’s on a good day. Getting to Dorset from us is ridiculous. I looked at a job in B’mouth at one point, but that was a total no go due to the A35. Awful road.
@toby_Hole_in_the_leg yeah i’m the same. It takes me very little time to get back up to my 2.00/100m plod speed. But i’d have to work ridiculously hard to go beyond that.
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Yes I can’t get my arms to go any faster.
A 1:03, a 1:25 doesn’t matter too much as I lose a lot of time cycling unfortunately.
I have at least done the requisite minimum amount of cycling required this year - involuntarily i may add through running injury - so if I make an IM start line, I’ll enjoy the scenery at least a bit more.
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Being an as mentioned awfully slow swimmer, and like others here I have one speed, however mine is ‘very slow’. When you want to swim faster do you increase arm speed, strokes per min etc? Or drive your hands/arms harder/faster on the underwater portion of the stroke? I realise both are kind of the same thing but…
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Neither 
My stroke rate is pathetically slow.
I’m a glider.
Reach and glide, baby.
I go quicker by thinking of my body position and kick.
Oh, and trying a little harder.
I think that’s more the “grabbing” of the water more than anything else. Like reaching over a wine barrel that’s under your arms and all that jazz.
I do about 16-17 strokes per length at 1:30/100m
So that’s 66 strokes in 90s.
Or 44 strokes per minute.
Or 1.515m per stroke
If I’m swimming at 1:40/100m that falls to about 14-16.
If I’m truly concentrating I can quite easily get it down to single figures, but that’s at 1:50-55/100m
I have no idea of what any of this means, but it means I can swim quite far with pretty much zero effort
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I find the faster I try to turn over my stroke the slower I end up going as my form breaks down very quickly and I’m just windmilling and blowing up. The really good and quick swimmers, like @Poet (I’ll be nice about him even though he’s mean about slow people like me ), never look to me like their arms are going crazy fast, they just seem to take bonkers chunks of distance out of every pull as they glide up and down nice and smooth.
There’s some great advice in the swim thread. Hammerer and others have been brilliant at indulging my hopelessness and slow progress. Might be some stuff in there you could try?
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5 mile jog 
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Not very enjoyable at the mo - anxiety of heel issue coupled with lack of running fitness makes for a tedious experience
Still - it’s fresh air and a sweat so… 
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