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I'm unfortunately never going to be a pack leading swimmer, at 5ft7 I don't think i'm built for swimming, but that's not to say that there's not still some big improvements to be made.
Interestingly when I look at my results swimming was my relative strength last year in races, ironman was a good example, I was 183rd out of the water, 247 off the bike and 205th at the end of the run. in one race I remember the marshal at t1 calling out I was in 8th pace which nearly made me fall off my bike!
My big goal is top 10 in age group at the European middle distance champs in May, which probably requires taking something like 20 minutes off my 70.3 time, which in my mind is about 2-3 minutes in the swim, 12-3 minutes on the bike and 5 minutes on the run.
The bike I'm pretty confident in, as I had a really bad day in my one and only 70.3 race, and hopefully there is more to come from improved aeros + new bike, not having a head on collision in the swim, pushing a bit harder on the run and just experience racing at the distance...